Radeon 9600XT in Core 2

[Ambariel]

It only found it as VESA and when I tried to select 9600 series in Core 1 it irreparably crashed X. I'm scared to try that again in Core2.

The ATI driver for Linux doesn't do much good since I think it expects xfree86.

I don't even have openGL support.

Anybody had any luck with this card and Core 2? Performance is simply terrible.

[redhatgeek]

i wish ati's driver was more like nvidia's

i think they are attmpting to do too many things with it

[Ambariel]

You know you're in for a treat when the ATI driver installation instructions says "Now, you'll probably see the following error messages..."

This thing is a triangle crunching monster. Quite a shame not to be able to use it to any advantage.

Why doesn't Core properly recognize 9600?

[redhatgeek]

right i have a radeon 9800 pro and it's just going to waste right now

[micha]

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2028

[redhatgeek]

hey cool thanks alot I'll try that when i get get home.

now what about getting them to work under AMD64?

[micha]

Originally posted by redhatgeek
now what about getting them to work under AMD64? No way at the moment....
See the http://rage3d.com linux forum for more information.

[Ambariel]

thanks for the link, but holy smoke, that's a lot of stuff just to make an ATI card work. Sigh...

[micha]

Yeah, but at least it works...

[Ambariel]

Thanks Micha! I followed the steps carefully and it works now, got 3620.600 FPS....

=)

[Ambariel]

heh, you fix one thing, and another breaks.

Hey! Ever since I successfully got the ATI drivers loaded, now my DVDs have no picture and neither do mpegs or avis, etc.

I get audio, and even on-screen menus on the DVD appear to work, as i get the glove when I float the mouse over the DVD blank black screen.

Doesn't seem to matter if I use Xine or mplayer or Ogle, etc.

Anybody have any ideas?

[micha]

I have the same problem. Only mplayer (compiled from the source) works. If I find a solution I'll post it here.

[Ambariel]

apparently if you turn off xv it works.

xine -V XShm

Gave me DVD playback again but it's not quite as smooth or image quality as good as it probably should be.

Unfortunately mpeg playback still spotty - only about half of the mpeg clips i've tried work in Xine.

Mplayer now launches and aborts almost simultaneously.

:(

[micha]

Yep, so it appears it's X.org's fault:
http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33759945
Now xv is working for me, and I don't know why...
Please Lord ATI, give us some good drivers...

[Ambariel]

hehe that's my other thread Micha.
:D

yeah we need xorg drivers not xfree86... that should solve it.

I may switch back to Core 1 if no fix surfaces in next couple of days.

:(

[micha]

Originally posted by Ambariel
hehe that's my other thread Micha.
:D I know, I'm mroy in the rage3d forum :cool:

[micha]

Here is the deal:
$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
Adaptor #0: "ATI Radeon Video Overlay"
number of ports: 1

It means there's only one port open to xv. So if you want to watch a DVD or something else, start a new gnome/kde/xfce session, and launch totem/xine/mplayer right away to watch your movie, you'll get xv acceleration.
If you don't do that something is gonna use that one xv port, and you won't be able to use it. Now the question is how to find out what is using this xv connexion...

[Antioch]

I had the same problem as you guys, but I was able to get video playback working after some messing around. But, at first I couldnt get videos to resize... but then, more tweaking and fullscreen worked properly.

Heres my thread, try it out. I hope it works for you!! =)

[Antioch]

Heh, whoops.

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3135