HOWTO: enable 3d acceleration w/ Rage Mobility (mach64)

[rarefluid]

Those functions might reside in the new libGL(w?).<whaterver>.so, so you'd better link the whole directory as I did... try that and check if the errors are gone then.
You can check what dlls glxgears loads from where by using ldd, as described in DriTroubleshooting:

ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears

Also google and the mesa-dev mailing list might be your friends too: http://www.mail-archive.com/mesa3d-d.../msg01600.html

What bit depth did you get the 180fps in? 16 or 32 bit? and did you change the size of the glxgears window? What cpu do you have and what is your FSB speed?

Is there some kind of commonly used 3D-benchmark around for Linux systems? I googled, but found nothing... (well SPECviewperf 9, but that might be overkill and has a CD-sizes download...)

Oh, yeah. And it might be a good idea to not download it to /tmp, because you might need to recompile someday and you will need to download everything again...

[Offoffoff]

I have Pentium III/256MB/ATI Rage Mobility AGP P/M x2. Here is my glxgears' log:
725 frames in 5.1 seconds = 142.286 FPS
319 frames in 5.4 seconds = 59.373 FPS
812 frames in 5.1 seconds = 159.982 FPS
870 frames in 5.2 seconds = 168.693 FPS
203 frames in 5.8 seconds = 34.955 FPS
493 frames in 5.3 seconds = 93.563 FPS
725 frames in 5.0 seconds = 144.301 FPS
783 frames in 5.1 seconds = 154.495 FPS
406 frames in 5.2 seconds = 78.006 FPS
812 frames in 5.1 seconds = 159.458 FPS
261 frames in 5.2 seconds = 50.391 FPS
435 frames in 5.1 seconds = 84.991 FPS

glxgears slows when it go to background. It is maximum for my videocard.

I have no special driver or something, my videocard works with drivers "right out-of-box". And of cause I have no hardware acceleration.

"glxinfo | grep direct" shows "direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect".

I see here some "hacks" to make my card to work well, but I also see that tends to some errors in logs... Is it right to do these hacks? Is my system going to die, if I'll did like I see here?

[dgrafix]

Hi,

This looks perfect for what i need, i have that same card, but i begin to loose heart when the instructions say "compile....." I have NEVER been able to compile anything in ubuntu.

Sure enough i tried it and recieved the message unable to compile. In the dir.log im getting this:

make DRM_MODULES=mach64.o modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dan/mach64-20060325-linux.i386/drm/linux-core'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/build SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
CC [M] /home/dan/mach64-20060325-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o
In file included from /home/dan/mach64-20060325-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.c:36:
/home/dan/mach64-20060325-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drmP.h:44:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/home/dan/mach64-20060325-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/dan/mach64-20060325-linux.i386/drm/linux-core] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/mach64-20060325-linux.i386/drm/linux-core'
make: *** [mach64.o] Error 2


LOL I have absolutely no idea what this means

[audiophyl]

Offoffoff:

I'm using a Athlon XPm 1800+ (1.5GHz)/512MB/ATI Rage Mobility M1 AGP 2x (8MB) and average ~300fps in glxgears at the default window size, and ~47fps maximized on a 1024x768 screen. Be reminded GLXGEARS IS NOT A REAL BENCHMARK!!!

However, in Quake 2 with max settings for my laptop I'm seeing ~15fps@1024x768, ~20fps@800x600, and >25fps@640x480. In Return to Castle Wolfenstein I'm seeing between 13-22fps with High Quality settings at 640x480. Yes, that sucks... but in Windows the best framerate I'd ever seen for Return to Castle Wolfenstein on this laptop was about 4fps.

dgrafix:

The linux/config.h error message is mainly because the source you're using is old enough to not take kernel source changes into account. if you were using 7.04 instead of 6.06, I have documented the process at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...95#post2399695.

-Philip

[Offoffoff]

Hi,

This looks perfect for what i need, i have that same card, but i begin to loose heart when the instructions say "compile....." I have NEVER been able to compile anything in ubuntu.

Sure enough i tried it and recieved the message unable to compile. In the dir.log im getting this:
... drmP.h:44:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
LOL I have absolutely no idea what this means

Just go to the /usr/src/linux-headers-..../include/linux and write down:

sudo ln -s autoconf.h config.h

Then go to the driver folder and find out drm_stub.c and delete 51th string.
Then install.sh!!!
Now it is Your turn!

[minime666]

Hi
I've got a Compaq Armada m700 with a Rage Mobility that I desperately want to get acceleration running on.
I've tried everything in this forum multiple times, and the best I can get from glxinfo is

direct rendering : No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

What information would you need from me in order to help? (xorg.conf, etc)

[Offoffoff]

2 minime666: The best way - to read through this forum branch...

I made it on my EVO n400c!
But... I had to delete one line in to src-files:
drm_stub.c:51
ati_pci_gart.c:87
In logs and visually I have no any errors concerning video.
Is it secure to use this self-made driver?

[minime666]

In which step of audiophyl's tutorial would you delete those lines?
And which logs should I be checking?

Edit:
I just tried the full gammut of audiophyls tut with the modification you described..no go.
BTW...
I think
cd /tmp/working/proto/randerproto
should be "renderproto"
and
cp *.ko /tmp/build-dir/drm
gives no files...
should this be " *.o "
I've tried with and without these corrections...
Still get "Mesa Indirect"

[Offoffoff]

minimi666: Don't panic. Calm down. Take a deeeeep breath... And re-read all topic... Do it again... Search for bugs in logs (xorg.0.org, messages)... And there will be a enlightenment!

I combined all things and hacks I found here in this branch. I deleted that lines (drm_stub.c:51
ati_pci_gart.c:87) after having problems with install.sh, included in the mach64-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2. And after compiling... I got working driver! But I am afraid of what am I doing, because I deleted two lines (one - advised here at forum, another one - I have done by myself).

P.S. By the way, I was playing with System\Preferences\Desktop Effects, then crushed, reloaded, and got the problem: I can see now bad artefact in left-upper corner, looks like a black square with some white lines. It appears for a 1 minute after Gnome loading and then it disappears... Does anyone knows how to heal it?

EDIT: Said artefact disappears when I start console and print some symbols. Also I can see this black-box artefact in GL-screensavers Settings in another place, near left from screensaver.

[minime666]

I'll try building from the older snapshots as you did...
I was trying to build from the newer stuff as audiophyl suggested.
Everything builds fine, I just can't get it to work....

As to the aritifact, I haven't seen that particular one. I had one on another system recently (running 7.04 and xfce) where the window borders got messed up. But only when running WINE apps...