On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:01:29 +0100, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I tried kldloading radeon anyway and running glxgears. It can't do any
> > better than about 10 fps at 1024x768/24bits.
>
> My radeon gives 560 - 580 fps with direct rendering. An R128 would
> probably be somewhat slower.
Running Slackware with XFree86-4.3.0 I'd get about 60-70 fps out of it.
> I think this is just telling you that it is loading the modules you told
> it to. Later in the logfile you see if those modules are actually used.
> Try to grep for [drm] and [agp] to see if they are really used. Or IIRC
> grep for UnloadModule to see if Xorg discards some of those modules. Also
> check for warning (WW) or error (EE) messages.
Hmm....
$ grep -i '\(dr\(i\|m\)\|glx\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
X.Org Video Driver: 0.7
X.Org XInput driver : 0.4
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/freebsd/libdrm.a
(II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.5.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets:
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmGetBusid returned ''
(II) R128(0): [drm] created "r128" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) R128(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xc1c0b000
(II) R128(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc1c0b000 to 0x2834b000
(II) R128(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf8000000
(II) R128(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) R128(0): [drm] register handle = 0xf0200000
(II) R128(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
(II) R128(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
(II) R128(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) R128(0): [drm] Added 128 16384 byte vertex/indirect buffers
(II) R128(0): [drm] Mapped 128 vertex/indirect buffers
(II) R128(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 11
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
$ grep "^(WW)" < /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/".
(WW) R128(0): Can't determine panel dimensions, and none specified.
Disabling programming of FP registers.
(WW) fcntl(9, O_ASYNC): Inappropriate ioctl for device
This last line is apparently something to do with the mouse, which does work
nonetheless:
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(II) Mouse1: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 3, hw.model is 4
(II) Mouse1: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse
(WW) fcntl(9, O_ASYNC): Inappropriate ioctl for device
$ grep "^(EE)" < /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(EE) R128(0): No DFP detected
Googling on this error message threw up loads of results of people seeing it
but nothing as to what it actually means. I also got it using Linux but it
didn't prevent hardware acceleration from working.
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G. Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
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