3d acceleration does not work

bhert · 01-06-2007, 06:33 PM

Hello guys! I have a problem getting openGL to work. I installed quake3 and when I started the game, it crashed with the message: no openGL subsystem found. I checked glxinfo and found out that the direct rendering was not on. My system is a toshiba laptop 1.8ghz with an integrated ATI xpress 200M with 256 memory. Do I need to install the ATI drivers or do I need to do something else to get direct3d and openGL to work? Thanks.

-bhert

raskin · 01-07-2007, 03:40 AM

You need to install either fglrx from ATI (binary driver, all features like TVout - if you have one, last time I used it (some years ago, so you can ignore) - buggy when you switch consoles and in some video modes) or use (maybe it is pre-installed on SUSE, would be natural) open-source r200 (or radeon, look at dri.freedesktop.org) driver.

bhert · 01-07-2007, 05:52 PM

(sigh) seems like my video card is not supported cause of "broken memory initilization"

Looks like ATI has poor support of some of the cards and slow in catching up with the latest distro releases.
Dang ATI!

-bhert

raskin · 01-07-2007, 06:09 PM

So http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-firegl.html didn't help also? Then really yes, you are out of luck, unfortunately.

bhert · 01-07-2007, 06:32 PM

raskin, I found the instructions on a hacking opensuse site:

ATI video drivers

WARNING: These instructions are only a placeholder for a future ATI driver release. If you are reading this paragraph, then ATI has not yet released a driver that supports X.org 7.2, which is what ships with openSUSE 10.2. Following the below instructions will cause X.org to fail to start. I am not sure if this procedure will work with an X.org 7.2-compatible ATI driver when one is released, but it should as far as I can tell. There is also an ATI YaST installation source that may work in the future, but does not currently have a driver that works with openSUSE 10.2. In other words, if you have a late-model ATI video card, 3D acceleration is unavailable at this time. The only workaround is to downgrade to an earlier X.org release, which is a lot of work and will ultimately be unmaintainable, so I strongly suggest that you either wait a few weeks for ATI to catch up to Novell, or choose a different GNU/Linux distribution that better meets your 3D rendering needs.

openSUSE 10.2 ships with the newly revamped open source radeon driver. That may be fine for 2D rendering, but it doesn't do direct rendering for 3D graphics. To get hardware 3D acceleration (and for XGL support), you still need the proprietary ATI fglrx driver.

One of the links did point to the ATI site that you put in your post.
Since I will have to wait till ATI to release the latest X.org drivers for my distro, I am out of luck for now

-bhert

raskin · 01-07-2007, 06:40 PM

SUSE decided to ship unreleased X11R7.2 server.. Sorry, didn't expect that much of them..