Hi
I have a Radeon XPress 200M card, and am running FC 5 x86_64. Having had
months of trying to get ATI's lousy proprietary driver for my card to work,
I was happy to discover upon installing the (2187?) kernel some time ago
that the opensource radeon driver now supported my card.
Unfortunately, I am getting only about 440 FPS (today in fact it was as low
as 380). Until now, I thought this was a problem with the driver, but
recently after some research, I found this was a problem to do with DRI
being loaded, as part of Xorg.
Sure enough, I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and found errors along the lines
of:
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card254
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.
(II) RADEON(0): Detected total video RAM=31744K, accessible=131072K (PCI
BAR=131072K)
Q> So why is DRI not being loaded and enabled? How can I fix this and so
boost fps for my graphic card, or is this a bug? At these fps, opengl is
not really usable.
Would updating any packages I have or updating to Core 6 fix this problem?
(Some suggestions I found on cyberspace were to "update your DRI"...)
Thanks,
LS
Relevant sections of my xorg.conf:
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
...
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
.
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