[PD] [OT] Harware accelaration on ATI radeon 9000 (M9) for gem

[B. Bogart]

Hey,

"direct rendering disabled" means no acceleration. Are you sure your ATI
drivers are working fine?

On SUSE I had the problem of system updates uninstalling my nvidia
drivers, maybe your ATI drivers got lost after an update?? Gem has
nothing to do with acceleration on your machine, this is only defined by
your X environment. I get this when typing:  glxinfo | head

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
server glx extensions:
     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
     GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.3

your looking for "direct rendering YES!" and something about ATI rather
than NVIDIA.

B>


Andres Cabrera wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm making the switch to linux (FC2 planet CCRMA) for my gem projects,
> but haven't been able to get gem to run fast. (I assume I have no
> hardware acceleration since a simple movie playback with pix_film sends
> the cpu to the roof, and the playback is really slow- how can I check if
> I have hardware acceleration? xorg.0.log reports: (II) RADEON(0): Direct
> rendering disabled)
> I have built pd 0.39 and gem 0.90.0 from cvs.
> I've seen the proprietary ATI drivers that seem to need xorg 6.8: should
> I update to xorg 6.8 (current version is 6.7)? (is it safe on FC2 planet
> CCRMA?). Is there another route with free drivers?
> I'm not actually using planetCCRMA's builds for this, but the CCRMA
> builds have produced the same result. (btw, gem 0.90.0 is alot more
> stable than 0.888! (is it the lack of hardware acceleration?))
>
> Cheers,
> Andrés
>
> PD. I might have broken something because I installed MESA from source
> (thinking it was needed for building gem), which I think replaces the GL
> libraries, however I forced installed xorg-devel and libs to the ccrma
> versions.
>
>
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