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**Michael** · 24 January 2007, 08:08 AM

8.33.6 is compatible with your card. If you use that driver, what issue do you run into?

The 100% X load is a bug with fglrx, IIRC.

**jbrechtel** · 24 January 2007, 11:05 AM

Originally posted by Michael View Post

8.33.6 is compatible with your card. If you use that driver, what issue do you run into?

The 100% X load is a bug with fglrx, IIRC.

It is? ATI's site reccommends 8.32.5 when I specify that model...and someone else said that the most recent one wasn't for this card. Couple that with the fact that I got poor glxgears(**) performance and Xgl wouldn't load then I kinda thought I should roll back.

** - I know now that glxgears isn't a good benchmark, but I had no other handy.

So, my main issue with 8.33.6 was just that I didn't get the acceleration performance that I wanted though I didn't hammer away at it (DRI was initialized) because after not too long I came to the conclusion that I was probably using the wrong drivers.

I'll give that driver a shot this evening and post my results.

Thanks

**Michael** · 24 January 2007, 11:18 AM

The graphics drivers are unified.... the X1300 has been in the mainline driver since 8.24.8, and should work with any release after that point. It works fine here with an X1300PRO and Mobility X1400 no problems.

Did your X log show anything when using 8.33?

**jbrechtel** · 24 January 2007, 05:15 PM

I don't remember what it said then except that DRI was initialized and that I had ATI as my vendor string and not Mesa.

Will have more results in a few hours when I'm off work and can boot into linux...

**jbrechtel** · 24 January 2007, 10:47 PM

Hmm, maybe I was thinking about the drivers in the repos and not 8.33.6....now I'm getting the same result with 8.33.6 drivers

with Composite disabled...

dmesg after modprobe of fglrx..

Code:

[17179695.036000] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[17179695.040000] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1898 MBytes.
[17179695.040000] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.33.6 [Jan  8 2007] on minor 0

glxinfo obviously shows mesa..

It won't let me post my X log for some reason...probably too large.

**Michael** · 24 January 2007, 11:09 PM

what errors do you see in the X log?

**jbrechtel** · 25 January 2007, 01:13 AM

Nothing...this is towards the end

Code:

(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbOptions: "lv3:ralt_switch"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
(**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
(**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Buttons" "12"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
(**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 16
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event4
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
(**) Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
(**) Synaptics Touchpad: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Synaptics Touchpad" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
    xkb_keycodes             { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
    xkb_types                { include "complete" };
    xkb_compatibility        { include "complete" };
    xkb_symbols              { include "pc(pc105)+us+level3(ralt_switch)" };
    xkb_geometry             { include "pc(pc105)" };
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Synaptics DeviceOn called
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event4
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list!

and this is the tail end of cat Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx

Code:

II) fglrx(0):     Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information:
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE:        2.6.17-10-generic
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS:        no
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel __SMP__:            no
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE:          0x1000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0x00004000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] ringbuffer size = 0x00100000 bytes
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM buffer queue setup: nbufs = 100 bufsize = 65536
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] texture shared area handle = 0x00008000
(II) fglrx(0): shared FSAAScale=1
(II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x008f7000
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1728,1360)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1728,1050) (front color buffer - assumption)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1728 x 304
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x1
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
(==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor
(II) fglrx(0): Interrupt handler installed at IRQ 169.
(II) fglrx(0): Exposed events to the /proc interface

**jbrechtel** · 25 January 2007, 01:15 AM

only warnings from fglrx are:

Code:

(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used

perhaps it's because its a 3rd party board?

**Michael** · 25 January 2007, 08:45 AM

What distribution are you using?

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