ATI 3d drivers for Red hat8

[retoon]

Im having a problem finding drivers for my ATI Radeon 7000 32MB AGP video card. Red hat 8.0 comes stock with drivers, but 2d only. There is no 3d accelleration. Its a pretty decent video card, and it would kind of suck if I couldn't exploit its capabilities. I have searched low and far, and i haven't found anything. I was just wondering if any one in this forum might have come across 3d drivers for this video card. I tried ati themselves, and they have drivers, but not for the radeon 7000. If any knows a guy who knows a guy who has a friend whos aunt used to make cookies for another guy whos cousin knows where to find ati radeon 3d accell drivers, please feel free to share.

[bwkaz]

I thought that XFree86 4.2 came with drivers for 3D on the Radeon 7000? Hmm... is your Driver set to "radeon" in your XF86Config? Are both "glx" and "dri" loading? Do you have a "DRI" section in there as well, with a Mode "0666" (at least, I think it's Mode...) in it?

If so, you might want to look at dri.sourceforge.net, there might be something worthwhile there...

[retoon]

How do I check my x86config? What are DRI and gtk? Im sorry but I don't understand these concepts and I need a firm understaning of them inorder to present logical and organized questions. When installing Red Hat, I did select the radeon 7000 drivers that came default with the os. On the retail box however, it said that the drivers only support 2d graphics.

[bwkaz]

Open up /etc/X11/XF86Config in an editor, and look through the Section "Module" for Load "glx" and Load "dri" lines. Then look in the Section "Device" for a Driver "radeon" line. If they aren't there, then add them (for the modules) or change the line (for the Driver). Save and exit, then restart X.

DRI is the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, the part of X that enables 3D acceleration on most video cards. It has to be loaded to get 3D.

gtk is a toolkit (the Gimp toolkit), but that's not important. glx, on the other hand, is the XFree86-dependent part of OpenGL (it's the functions that let you set up display contexts, let you actually put stuff on the screen, etc.). It has to be loaded to let OpenGL programs work properly.

[retoon]

Yes, I checked it and it set to ATI Radeon 7000. Anything else I might be able to try?

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by retoon
Yes, I checked it and it set to ATI Radeon 7000. Anything else I might be able to try? ???

The only thing that might be set to ATI Radeon 7000 would be either the Identifier (which has almost no bearing on anything) or the Chipset (which definitely has no bearing on anything).

Post the "Device" section, and while you're at it, the "DRI" section as well.

[melloman]

kind of related subject... Multiple monitors on RH 8, with a Radeon VE. Any how-to someone can point me to?

[retoon]

This is my xf86congif file
# File generated by anaconda.
#

Section "ServerLayout"
#
Identifier "Anaconda Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
#Option "XkbOptions" ""
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us" #Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 30.0 - 72.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
# no known options
#BusID
Identifier "ATI Radeon 7000"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Radeon 7000"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Radeon 7000"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

[Gutts]

I'm in the same boat. Have not found
anything yet but I'm still looking
Please let me know if you find anything and I'll do likewise

Thanks

[JohnT]

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