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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:09:21
Message-Id: 7573e9640701190759n4985ca51y5ed62e20a39b8139@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?' by "Jan Stępień"
1 On 1/19/07, Jan Stêpieñ <jan@×××××××××××.pl> wrote:
2 > When entering default runlevel GDM starts and launches both servers.
3 > First one, Standard, has got direct rendering turned on and OpenGL is
4 > rendered by fglrx driver. OpenGL apps work fine. On the other hand
5 > second server, Xgl, has not got direct rendering, and what is most
6 > suspicious, it uses Mesa drivers, which cause Beryl to run at an
7 > absolutely unacceptable performance. Why both servers are not rendered
8 > using fglrx? Have you got any ideas how to do it?
9
10 Have you checked your /var/log/Xorg.*.log files? They should reflect
11 why the Xgl server is not being accellerated.
12
13 Also, one other option may be to try the opensource radeon driver.
14 You can lookup your card's pci ID (use lspci && lspci -n) in
15 /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h to see if it is supported
16 or not. If so, you should be able to get aiglx working with
17 opensource drivers.
18
19 -Richard
20
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?' "Jan Stępień" <jan@×××××××××××.pl>