[ltp] 3D acceleration on ThinkPad T42

[Paul RIVIER]

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> No luck. I still get
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> (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled
> (**) RADEON(0): Setting up final surfaces
> (**) RADEON(0): Initializing Acceleration
> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and 
> newer.
> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
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Same here, however I do have DRI as shown by
$ glxinfo | grep render

Please post your result of the above command, or install a 3D game like 
neverball (I like that one in particular) and try it .

> Radeon DRM module is loaded:
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> shambala:~> lsmod | grep radeon
> radeon                126240  2
> drm                    75732  3 radeon
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> This is my card:
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> shambala:~> lspci -nn | grep ATI
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 
> [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]
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> I have not a trace of an idea on where to look. Below is my complete 
> xorg.conf, I added your device section as diffferent device section and 
> just changed ServerLayout to use it. It is used as I see the options from 
> it in the Xorg.0.log. Well I attach this one too (hopefully the list 
> manager lets me - it does not seem so, reposting without the xorg log).
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> Maybe something wrong with my modules list in the config file? Maybe it 
> would be a good idea of you just send me your complete X.org conf file 
> and I try it with that one to make sure we have identical X.org setup. 
> When it then does not work, you gotta have a different version of the 
> radeon driver or a different gfx chip in your notebook I think. My radeon 
> driver is as stated previously:
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> martin@shambala:~> LANG=C apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-ati
> xserver-xorg-video-ati:
>   Installed: 1:6.6.3-2
>   Candidate: 1:6.6.3-2
>   Version table:
>  *** 1:6.6.3-2 0
>         990 http://debian.n-ix.net etch/main Packages
>         500 http://debian.n-ix.net sid/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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> Version of the dri drivers are:
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> martin@shambala:~> LANG=C apt-cache policy libgl1-mesa-dri
> libgl1-mesa-dri:
>   Installed: 6.5.1-0.4
>   Candidate: 6.5.1-0.4
>   Version table:
>  *** 6.5.1-0.4 0
>         990 http://debian.n-ix.net etch/main Packages
>         500 http://debian.n-ix.net sid/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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> If you have a newer driver I even would try to copy over the so files and 
> they if that works then ;-)
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> I really would like to use the opensource driver. Dreaming of the days 
> where X.org gfx drivers will be free and work out of the box with all 
> bells and whistles.
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