Hey,
"direct rendering disabled" means no acceleration. Are you sure your ATI drivers are working fine?
On SUSE I had the problem of system updates uninstalling my nvidia drivers, maybe your ATI drivers got lost after an update?? Gem has nothing to do with acceleration on your machine, this is only defined by your X environment. I get this when typing: glxinfo | head
name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.3 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation client glx version string: 1.3
your looking for "direct rendering YES!" and something about ATI rather than NVIDIA.
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Andres Cabrera wrote:
Hi all, I'm making the switch to linux (FC2 planet CCRMA) for my gem projects, but haven't been able to get gem to run fast. (I assume I have no hardware acceleration since a simple movie playback with pix_film sends the cpu to the roof, and the playback is really slow- how can I check if I have hardware acceleration? xorg.0.log reports: (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled) I have built pd 0.39 and gem 0.90.0 from cvs. I've seen the proprietary ATI drivers that seem to need xorg 6.8: should I update to xorg 6.8 (current version is 6.7)? (is it safe on FC2 planet CCRMA?). Is there another route with free drivers? I'm not actually using planetCCRMA's builds for this, but the CCRMA builds have produced the same result. (btw, gem 0.90.0 is alot more stable than 0.888! (is it the lack of hardware acceleration?))
Cheers, Andrés
PD. I might have broken something because I installed MESA from source (thinking it was needed for building gem), which I think replaces the GL libraries, however I forced installed xorg-devel and libs to the ccrma versions.
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