Re: [PD] [OT] Harware accelaration on ATI radeon 9000 (M9) for gem

I read:

I have hardware acceleration? xorg.0.log reports: (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled)

so apparently you don't have hw opengl

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 use the free drivers since I'm on ppc but ati's should perform better if you can use them.

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?))

I don't know much about xorg, I need to load agp and radeon kernel modules and when I fire up x I get:

$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20030328 AGP 1x TCL

glxgears gives me just above ~1000fps that is with a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01) (as reported by lspci)

HTH

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