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cyblord
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:04 am    Post subject: Do I have 3D acceleration? Reply with quote

I use an ATI x700 Pro 256mb PCI-E

Code:

glxinfo | grep rendering


glxinfo says that I have direct rendering, but when I run glxgears, the cpu (p4 3.2ghz) usage shoots way up, to about 50%

any ideas/suggestions?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

glxgears is NOT a benchmark tool, use doom3 or quake4 to test your settings. and if that command returns 'Yes', then you DO have 3d acceleration ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fglrxinfo returns the following:

Code:

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.2)


shouldn't I be seeing ATI instead?

zietbukuel wrote:
glxgears is NOT a benchmark tool, use doom3 or quake4 to test your settings. and if that command returns 'Yes', then you DO have 3d acceleration ;)


yeah I'll give one of them a try and see how it goes
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you looked at the HOWTO_ATI_Drivers wiki? It has some things to try if you get mesa3d.org.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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shouldn't I be seeing ATI instead?


Try:

Code:
eselect opengl set ati
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zietbukuel wrote:
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shouldn't I be seeing ATI instead?


Try:

Code:
eselect opengl set ati


I followed the ati gentoo-wiki howto and have already done that
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Post any errors (EE) in your Xorg log file. That would help.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

D2T wrote:
Post any errors (EE) in your Xorg log file. That would help.


I'm not really getting any errors...

hey, good news:

Code:

/opt/ati/bin/fglrxinfo


gives me:

Code:

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X700 PRO Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5814 (8.25.18)


hmm... looks like I'm getting somewhere after all.

I'll give the unreal-tournament 2004 demo a try, and see how it goes
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ut2004 runs, but I get this messages in console:

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WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change!
Xlib:  extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".
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