[ltp] 3D acceleration on ThinkPad T42

[Andrew J. Barr]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 16:07 +0100, Paul RIVIER wrote:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > No luck. I still get
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > (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
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   
> 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 .

Just in case it isn't clear to y'all--a little terminology primer:

'Render' means the XRender extension. This is server-side 2D vector
graphics which can be accelerated by the graphics hardware using EXA.
This has nothing to do with OpenGL or 3D graphics.

DRI is the infrastructure used to accelerate OpenGL.

So from the log above it looks like you have 3D graphics acceleration
but not server-side 2D vector acceleration.

/Andrew

> > Radeon DRM module is loaded:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > shambala:~> lsmod | grep radeon
> > radeon                126240  2
> > drm                    75732  3 radeon
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This is my card:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > shambala:~> lspci -nn | grep ATI
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 
> > [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Version of the dri drivers are:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > If you have a newer driver I even would try to copy over the so files and 
> > they if that works then ;-)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >   
>