ATI Radeon 32mb SDR/halflife

[roccoman]

I just installed Half LIfe, and CS... I Tried to set the Config to OpenGL but It says my hardware does not support this.... But I know it does, Does anyone know how to fix this problem? (Im a linux newb)

Thanks!

[Molecule Man]

What info do you get from glxinfo?

[roccoman]

I get this man:

name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 16 tc 0 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 16 dc 0 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

I dont wanna even try to understand what this means...

[roccoman]

-HELPP

[bwkaz]

You don't have 3D set up properly, that's what the "extension GLX missing" messages mean. ;)

Can you post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and your distro/version? That should help.

[Icarus]

You don't have the GLX installed :D

Sounds like you are using the base drivers and haven't made any changes to use OpenGL and acceleration.

ATI recently released drivers for their newer high-end cards, but lookin at thier site, it should be easy for you to set it up.

http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

[roccoman]

Yes BWKAZ, Heres the link to my XF86Config File: http://home.tampabay.rr.com/roccoman/XF86Config

I'm running Linux distro-RedHat 8.0

Also: MAHDi:

I selected my card on the ATI web-site (ATI Radeaon 32mb SDR) and it gives me this page could u please find and list the direct link for the files I need, I don't understand what all the stuff they say means....here (http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+32MB+SDR&eula=&choice=agree&cmdNext=Next)

[Icarus]

It looks mostly like Linux, XFree and ATI info...Seems like you have an older card so the new drivers they released won't work. Most information you need is located in a PDF file http://www.ati.com/developer/altoschart.pdf

That has links to the peices you'll need...I can't help much more, I've never setup an ATI card before and have been a happy nVidia user for years (plus nVidia is very easy to setup ;))

Maybe someone that has set an ATI up for OpenGL could help you?

[bwkaz]

I think the solution is as simple as removing the comment marker (the "#" symbol) from your Load "glx" line. You might also have to add a Load "GLcore" line, but I'm not sure on that one.

Oh, almost forgot -- you will have to add a Load "dri" line to the same modules section, and you'll also have to add a section like this:

Section "DRI"
Mode "0666"
EndSection You can change the mode if you want, but the 0666 ensures that DRI will work for any user, so start with that at least.

I'm actually quite surprised that RH8 didn't set that up for you... oh well. This should still work.

[roccoman]

yo bw, I did that, and when I type glxinfo i still get:

name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 16 tc 0 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 16 dc 0 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None


Heres my xf86config file, maybe you or someone could look in it and tell me whats WRONGggggg:
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/roccoman/XF86Config

Thanks BW, u know what you talkin about

[matt95z]

Is that before or after you changed it like he said?

[roccoman]

BW, IT WORKS, ALL I HAD TO DO IS CHANGE WHAT U SAID AND LOGOUT AND LOG BAC IN, U SOLVED MY PROB WOOT U OWN WOOT........ seond problem :) I ran TuxRacer in OpenGL and it ran very slow, what should i do

THanks again

[bwkaz]

Well, thanks, or something. :D

You can look in your ~/.tuxracer/options file. There are some settings in there that can affect framerate (like tux_sphere_divisions for one).

Otherwise... it might be something with the GL library still using software rendering. But I don't know how to replace the lib with one that does hardware rendering -- maybe the DRI project page would have some info on that? Or maybe they have a DRI-enabled libGL.so?