Radeon 9200 SE direct rendering difficulties (Xubuntu Intrepid)

[Demos]

rebooting and rebooting (beacause ctrl+alt+backspace gave me strange results) I finally saw that my grub hadn't been upgraded when I installed Interpid (my iso is a hardy one).
I fix it now but I don't know if my troubles come from it.

Anyway I reinstalled all mesa's packages using Synaptic or apt-get so much times that i'm getting totally crazy .

The symbol issue has been solved when I cleaned the last fglrx file from my Linux.

I tried to recompile libgl following content of http://www.mesa3d.org/ but as a beginner I haven't been able to do anything after ./configure.

Anyway, the only pb now is that one :

libGL error: dlopen /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

I still hope i'll solve it one day and I thank you for the help you've already gave.

[Ren H?ek]

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so I switched libGL.so.1.2 and its backup. As said before, I downloaded the old libGL 1.2 while i was trying to use fglrx.
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root@chez-oam:~# glxinfo | grep render
glxinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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I think I have the good libGL.so.1.2 now but... My word is not trusty.

Yes, it seems that you messed your libs a little up .
Reinstall as dungeon mentioned.

And also don't run glxinfo as root. This can leed to "direct rendering: No" too, though it works as normal user.

[Demos]

I already reinstalled it...

Normally there is no more package of fglrx but, just to try, i did it.

oam@chez-oam:~$ locate fglrx
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx-0
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/10fglrx
/etc/acpi/fglrx-powermode.sh
/etc/acpi/events/fglrx-ac-aticonfig
/etc/acpi/events/fglrx-lid-aticonfig
/etc/default/xorg-driver-fglrx
/usr/bin/fglrx_xgamma
/usr/bin/fglrxinfo
/usr/lib/fglrx
/usr/lib/libfglrx_dm.so.1
/usr/lib/libfglrx_dm.so.1.0
/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1
/usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1
/usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0
/usr/lib/libfglrx_tvout.so.1
/usr/lib/libfglrx_tvout.so.1.0
/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
/usr/share/fglrx
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/fglrx-driver.desktop
/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_fglrx-installer.py
/usr/share/doc/fglrx-amdcccle
/usr/share/doc/fglrx-kernel-source
/usr/share/doc/fglrx-modaliases
/usr/share/doc/xorg-driver-fglrx
/usr/share/jockey/modaliases/fglrx-modules.alias.override
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/fglrx-amdcccle
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/fglrx-kernel-source
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/xorg-driver-fglrx
/usr/src/fglrx-8.543
/var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-amdcccle_2%3a8.543-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx-kernel-source_2%3a8.543-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/xorg-driver-fglrx_2%3a8.543-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.543
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions/kernel
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions/volatile
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions/kernel/drivers
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions/kernel/drivers/char
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions/kernel/drivers/char/drm
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/original_module/2.6.24-23-generic/i686/collisions/volatile/fglrx.ko
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-amdcccle.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-amdcccle.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-kernel-source.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-kernel-source.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-kernel-source.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-kernel-source.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modaliases.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modaliases.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx-envy.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx-envy.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg-driver-fglrx.shlibs

Is it normal to see so much files including "fglrx" in their name?

I see on the web (ubuntu forums) that guys solved it when they deleted fglrx. Normally it's done... I'm not trully sure of what "normally" means anymore

Concerning grub, until yesterday, it booted on the 2.6.24-23-generic kernel (surely a bug during upgrade or a mistake from me) but now everything works properly and 2.6.27.11 is loaded at boot.

Finally, even as normal user :

oam@chez-oam:~$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep render
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r200 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so
libGL error: dlopen /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
libGL error: unable to load driver: r200_dri.so
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 8x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL

May I do a symbolic link or some stuff like that? It looks dirty...

[bridgman]

I would really think about trying a clean install of Ubuntu; r200 should work out of the box.

[DanL]

I've had the same experience with fglrx not uninstalling properly. Just one more reason to use open-source drivers if possible.

[Kano]

Then uninstall it right:

sudo -i
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '/fglrx|amdxv/{print $2}')

[Demos]

/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh

=> not found

apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '/fglrx|amdxv/{print $2}')

=> still searching in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri

I was giving up but an update of my Xubuntu solved it suddenly. I'm lucky .

Now I get :

oam@chez-oam:/mnt/archives$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 8x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL

Sadly my issue is not completely resolved.
I tried to activate direct accelerating because I had some lags with Flash Player and some strange effects with xfce.

When I open a new window, it appears blank with little dots (as a physical bug) for about 0.25 second. Then the good image is spread.

I thought it came from my direct accelerating issue. Now I know it's not true.

An other strange behavior is that fps in glxgears didn't increase after resolving the problem. It's still stuck between 1450 et 1650 fps.

I will add a link to a screen-shot soon.

Anyway thank you for your help until now.

PS : Maybe shall I create a new thread?

[Kano]

mkdir -p /etc/adobe
echo OverrideGPUValidation=true > /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

[Demos]

I followed your instructions then reboot but the bug is still visible.

The best score of glxgears is still 1650 fps.

Sorry for the picture of the bug but I'm presently trying to bind print screen and any utility able to make a screen-shot. The plug-in of xfce doesn't work until now and the bug is too short in time to be catchable with a click.

[Kano]

Thats for Flash 10 plugin. Not more not less.