Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 31232
Radeon is not 3D accelerated nor DGA compiled
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:05 EDT
Radeon driver, contrary to the release notes for Wolverine, is *not* 3D accelerated (and I'd be surprised since CVS DRI doesn't even work right now either -- at least not on my 32DDR). It also does not have DGA enabled, which considerably slows down VMWare. The default XFree86-4.0.2 works better in this regard than the RPM shipped with Wolverine because it enables DGA by default for normal user access. Here's the output on my system of glxinfo: [ink@desconocido ink]$ glxinfo display: :0.0 screen:0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_tranpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_paletted_texture, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_HP_occlusion_test, GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_MESA_resize_buffers, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_PGI_misc_hints, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table, GL_SGIS_pixel_texture, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIX_pixel_texture visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None 0x25 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x26 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
The release notes for Wolverine are wrong. Unfortunately, someone mistakenly put that Radeon 3D was supported in Wolverine in one spot, and then in another spot that it wasn't. Radeon accelerated 3D is not and will not be supported in XFree86 4.0.2, nor in 4.0.3. For the brave, Radeon 3D is supported in the XFree86 CVS trunk code which is available on the http://www.xfree86.org website. Any problems with VMware should be taken up with VMware technical support. There are known issues with VMware running under a 2.4.x kernel and the Vmware people are working to fix this AFAIK. I'm not aware of any problems with DGA in our release.
VMWare works just fine under XFree86 4.0.2/Debian on this same box (kernel 2.4.1) -- When I attempt to run it under Wolverine (which is also using XFree86 4.0.2 with kernel 2.4.1) it says that my X11 server doesn't support DGA. The VMWare installation in question resides on a separate partition and is exactly the same for both distributions. I don't think this is a VMWare problem, but I don't have a RedHat 7.0 box handy to test on either.
(and, if anyone really is interested in 3D support for the radeon, you must get the DRI CVS tree from dri.sourceforge.net and not from xfree86.org)
If you're using VMware with a 2.4.x kernel and not having problems, then either: A) You're not using functionality in VMware that triggers the problems, or B) VMware has solved the problems that there were and released an update. I was under the assumption that such problems still existed due to discussions taking place on linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org For the Radeon thing.. You can try either the XFree86 trunk, or you can try the stuff at sourceforge. From what I understand, both work well, depending on what snapshot you get. I will look into the DGA thing again, however I will need a complete attachment of your X server log, and configuration file.
Your Bugzilla doesn't allow attachments... You can get the files here: http://inconnu.isu.edu/~ink/wolverine/ You'll notice that the X11 log says: (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA But it doesn't work. I tried UAE (another application which uses DGA), and it also said that DGA dosn't work: "Your X server does not support XFree86 DGA accelerated graphics on your display hardware."
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Created attachment 12463 [details] My XF86Config file
Created attachment 12464 [details] My XF86Config-4 file
Created attachment 12465 [details] My XFree86 log
I believe that this DGA problem you and some others have been having is because our XFree86 does not have the shared library libXxf86dga.so I have just added it to the XFree86-4.0.3-5 build. If it works ok, I will leave it in. I think this will fix this problem. Can you run the following command and report back to me here what it says: ldd $(which vmware)
$ ldd `which vmware` /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x40017000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40023000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40044000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40049000) libXtst.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0x40128000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4012e000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x4013c000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40144000) libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x40191000) libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40199000) libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x401a8000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x401bf000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x401d6000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401df000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
DGA works fine for me on all 3 of my Radeons. If you are still having problems, update to our current release as that is what I'm using and not having any trouble.