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

[oasick]

This is ONLY for Ubuntu Gutsy.
I compiled the new xf86-video-ati 6.7.196 This is the announce and the fixes/new features

To install it you must uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati first :

sudo apt-get uninstall --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati

Or uninstall the xf86-video-ati_6.7.195-2 if you enable the 3D acceleration with this post
If you want to enable the 3D acceleration you can do the same of this post but you can use the latest xf86-video-ati 6.7.196

You can download the deb file from here:

xf86-video-ati_6.7.196_gutsy.deb

[alex.bb]

Other deb-Package for Ubuntu Gutsy.
(version 6.7.195, simply built from Gutsy-Sources with option --enable-dri)

To use the package add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.bakarasse.de/linux/ubuntu/gutsy ./

and install it:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -u

Get kernel modules (drm and mach64) for kernel 2.6.22-14-generic:

wget http://www.bakarasse.de/linux/ubuntu/download/mach64-2.6.22-14-generic.tar.gz

copy the kernel modules to /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ and set Display Depth to 16 bit (xorg.conf).
after depmod -a restart the X-Server.

[nail.tw]

...
This modules are compiled with the dougfractal's post (thank's for your great work )

First of all, I want to thank dougfractal and oasick. Very useful articles and sweet deb package for me such newbie to make DRI enabled in just few minutes.

Here's my problems: Its GUI STILL runs so slow that I can't use it, not like it works in Windows XP.

Yes I made DRI working now, glxinfo says "direct rendering: Yes" now. But it didn't make more fps. After I read someone's 3d fps datasheet here(http://fractaldimension.org.uk/ubuntu/xorg/xorg.xml), his fps(in 5 seconds) is just like mine.. poor 181 fps(glxgears fps)

ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
res:1024x768
depths:24
glxgears fps:181

So it's the limit of this old laptop running ubuntu? (Travelmate 600ter)
I just want to make use of this old laptop, like browse web and e-mail. I thought DRI is critical to normal 2D rendering and it seems not since DRI is enabled now. Any suggestion is welcome, or I think I'll make it XP again .

[dougfractal]

Hi nail.tw
fps:181 is fairly average for your card, the best i have seen is 257fps.
But your GUI shouldn't be slow. how was it with the live CD?
You could reduce your defaultdepth 16 in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
It maybe that AGLX enabled may be an issue,
try adding this (always backup conf files first)

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "0"
EndSection

If the problem is more about slow application response, there might be a hostname lookup issue. some mods to the /etc/hosts can fix this. Let us know how it goes.

Have you looked at gOS. its another ubuntu derivertive and uses Enlightenment E17 desktop.

Doug

[whardier]

The modules provided by both alex.bb and oasick load fine, however I get the following when I start X (and a snippit from xorg.conf is included.

I'm convinced I need to recompile the kernel anyways, I'm a little intimidated because I need to recompile it for a transmeta host, including all the restricted drivers... sigh..

Anyhoot, any advice would be wonderful! I don't understand why the driver still wants to load up radeon.ko

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FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.

-----

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:0:20:0"
EndSection

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[dougfractal]

"ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY" I'm faily sure this isn't a mach64 card.
try http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3818042

also look in the
less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
an look to see which module it loads. search this thread for someones xinfo.tar.gz and compare there log files


You could try to recomple the modules, (not the kernel) change this part and cp the radeon mods
see. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=6
make DRM_MODULES="radeon"

[minime666]

I've tried oasick's deb file from above, carefully following his directions.
This is on a Compaq Armada M700, running Xubuntu 7.10.
I get the following results:

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

lsmod | grep mach64
mach64 51968 1
drm 147224 2 mach64

glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect



This is a fresh(ish) install, I haven't tried anything at all funky with it.
It would be nice to not have to reboot into win 2K to play Unreal Tournament (yes I know how old it is...we have fun with it still). I get decent frame rates in w2K, obviously not playable in linux without acceleration.

Any ideas?
I'm not sure how to "try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose"

[oasick]

Hi minime666
I can't know what's happen with your laptop... Can you get more info about your problem and post here?

Sometimes this problem is because don't have installed libgl1-mesa-dri
If you don't have installed this library you can try install it

If you haven't 3D acceleration yet, you can try the alex.bb metod... maybe in this way works for you.

[minime666]

Thank you Oasick!!!
Your method combined with installing the libgl1-mesa-dri library
worked quite well.
Anyone noticing the same symptoms I listed in my earlier post would do well to check to see that this library is installed.

Success at last!!
Now I just need to get UnrealEd working, and I can dispose of w2K
FOREVER!!
BAH HAA HAA!! (maniacal laughter)

I'm gonna go old school now and go play starcraft broodwar....

[Scottydogg]

Thanks for all the work on this.
Unfortunately, I still can't get 3d acceleration working with my ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x.
I installed oasic's deb package, and have the lib1-mesa-dri library, and yet I get

 glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

Um, what does this mean I should do...