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

[Andres Cabrera]

Hi,

Thanks for your pointers, turns out it was a simpler problem, and all I
had to do was read the log file more carefully... somewhere in there
there was a message saying two monitors were not supported with dri
(though I don't have two monitors right now, I had connected a viedobeam
recently). Modifying xorg.conf accordingly solves the problem!
Thanks!
Andrés

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:55, B. Bogart wrote:
> 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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