ATI mach64 core consultant work needed

[Vladimir Dergachev]

Well, one thing for sure is that I appear to have the same output from 
glxinfo, including ioctls.

So it would seem that you do use direct rendering but it is awfully slow.
Thus:

      1. Try to turn off direct rendering (for example by deleting the
         necessary /dev/dri/card0 device) and check the FPS count
         using software only rendering - is it different ?

      2. What is the output of cat /proc/pci ?

      3. Watch dmesg for any weird messages from the agp driver. Is it
         loaded before or after DRM driver ?

      4. Go to BIOS and scout it for all kinds of weird option that might
         have an effect. Make sure that the graphics card gets its IRQ
         assigned.

                          best

                             Vladimir Dergachev

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 16 October 2004 23:06, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>>> [root at coyote cf]# glxgears
>>> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 4.0.1 r200 (screen 0)
>>> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so
>>> drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:02:00.0
>>> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
>>> drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
>>> drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
>>> drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:02:00.0
>>
>> I just noticed that your bus id is 2:00.0 - what kind of hardware is
>> this running on ?
>>
> Biostar N7-NCD-Pro motherboard, nforce2 chipset northbridge, smc
> something southbridge, a gig of 400mhz DDR ram running at 333mhz dual
> channel because the Athlon 2800XP on it doesn't support a 400mhz fsb.
> One nic in the nforce2 setup, and one RTL8139 thats not in use ATM is
> plugged in. 2 HD's, a 120 for the main drive, a 200 for amanda's
> virtual disks and /swap & /var on the 1st 2 partitions on outside
> edge of it. A Happauge WinTV-Go+FM card, a floppy and a dvd writer
> plus a USB1.1 hub is front panel mounted for the slower usb stuff.
> That includes 2 printers, a scanner, an optical mouse, and 2 cameras
> maximum.
>
> An lspci:
>
> [root at coyote linux-2.6.9-final]# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
> version?) (rev c1)
> 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1
> (rev c1)
> 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4
> (rev c1)
> 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3
> (rev c1)
> 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2
> (rev c1)
> 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5
> (rev c1)
> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
> 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
> 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev
> a4)
> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev
> a4)
> 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev
> a4)
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
> Controller (rev a1)
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
> Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
> 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge
> (rev a3)
> 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
> 01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
> 01:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
> Capture (rev 11)
> 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev
> 10)
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
> 9200 SE] (rev 01)
> 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
> SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
>
> and an lsusb:
> [root at coyote linux-2.6.9-final]# lsusb
> Bus 003 Device 006: ID 1453:4026
> Bus 003 Device 005: ID 046d:0900 Logitech, Inc. ClickSmart 310
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04b8:0005 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Printer
> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0451:2046 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2046 Hub
> Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b8:0005 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Printer
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b8:010f Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1250
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> I guess you could say this is fairly complete.  Sort of a "he who dies
> with the most toys wins, but he's still dead" system. :-)
>
> -- 
> Cheers Vladimir, Gene
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