What’s strange to me is that it worked before but not now even with the same old driver.
Yes, the cpu, motherboard, ram, HDD have been changed.
AthlonXP2800+ (RH8 recognizes it)
Nforce2 400 chipset (I don’t know. I asked people on another forum if I had to install chipset drivers but nobody answered)
Vid card is the same : R9500 128MB.
I think RH8 doesn’t have it in it’s list. I looked in Hat->System Settings->Display
then “Advanced” tab.
Next to
Video card type : Unknown video card
Memory size : 128 megabytes
Driver : fglrx
This was after I installed the new drivers.
Try to remove all GL rpms, then all GL libraries and headers (/usr, /usr/X11R6, /usr/local
for all include/GL and lib/libGL* headers and libraries).
Don’t know how to uninstall rpms. I’m from a Windows background.
lsmod | grep agp doesn’t say anything. It just returns to the prompt again
The drivers are closed source ATI drivers. The open source drivers are for R200 and below.
Hannes,
I have this file in etc called profile (it’s not .profile)
# /etc/profile
# System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup
# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
pathmunge () {
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
else
PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
fi
}
# Path manipulation
if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then
pathmunge /sbin
pathmunge /usr/sbin
pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
fi
pathmunge /usr/X11R6/bin after
unset pathmunge
# No core files by default
ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
USER="`id -un`"
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -r "$i" ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
### START ATI FGLRX ###
### Automatically modified by ATI Proprietary driver scripts
### Please do not modify between START ATI FGLRX and END ATI FGLRX
if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]
then
if ! set | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH | grep /usr/X11R6/lib > /dev/null
then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
else
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
if [ $LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH ]
then
if ! set | grep LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH | grep /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/ > /dev/null
then
LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=$LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/
export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH
fi
else
LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/
export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH
fi
### END ATI FGLRX ###
if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]
then
if ! set | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH | grep /usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules > /dev/null
then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
else
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
After messing around a bit more and finally installing the new drivers, glxinfo says
Xlib: extension “XFree86-DRI” missing on display “:0.0”.
[root@localhost /]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,
GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x22 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
And finally, I’ll give nVidia a try sometime but I don’t fell liek pulling out hw right now.
