Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77084
No 3D acceleration playing tux racer or chromium
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I can't seem to get more than 1 frame every 2 seconds with a Voodoo 3 3000 video card. I didn't have problems with RH 7.x releases. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Tux Racer or Chromium 2. 3. Actual Results: Slow performance Expected Results: Fast performance Additional info: I've also tried Stealth III 540 agp card, same slow results. Also as root too.
Attach your X server log and config file using the link below.
Created attachment 83045 [details] /var/log/XFree86.0.log
Created attachment 83046 [details] /etc/X11/XF86Config
From your log file: (II) TDFX(0): [dri] VideoRAM = 16384, VirtualXres = 1280, VirtualYres= 1024, (WW) TDFX(0): [dri] To use DRI, with a 16Mb Voodoo 3 or Banshee card, you must invoke the server using a maximum resolution of 1024x768 or lower. The warning message clearly shows that you must use a resolution of 1024x768 for 3D acceleration to work. This isn't a bug, just a misconfiguration on your part. I've just tested a Voodoo 3 3000 at 1024x768 with tuxracer and it works fine.
Created attachment 83384 [details] /var/log/XFree86.0.log
It's still slow. Do I need to run as root? I use Icewm, do I need to use gnome?
No, you don't need to run as root, 1024x768 is the max res for DRI on this card, but it certainly isn't the best performance-wise. If you want better performance, configure for 640x480, or 800x600. The lower the res, the faster performance you'll get because of 2 factors: 1) Lower res consumes less video memory for 2D, leaving more memory for 3D 2) Lower res means less work needs to be done for 3D, which speeds things up Your window manager and/or desktop is irrelevant and wont affect performance at all. Please attach the output of 'xdpyinfo' and 'glxinfo' also as separate file attachments.
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I also have a Stealth III 540 video board with a S3 Savage4Pro+ gpu, would that work better for the GL stuff than the voodoo 3?
You did not do what I told you to do. You are using 1280x1024. You can NOT use resolution that high with 3D acceleration. It does _not_ work. And that is not a bug. It is a limitation of the video hardware and implementation. The files you've attached, clearly indicate you're using an illegal video mode for 3D acceleration to work, and clearly indicate that DRI is not enabled. I've just pulled out a Voodoo 3, set it to 1024x768, and fired up a game of tuxracer. It works perfectly, as does Return to Castle Wolfenstein, although the latter doesn't perform the best - 3D is enabled and working fine. I'm closing this as WORKSFORME, as it works for me, and you're using an invalid configuration for 3D. To answer your Savage question - no, it wont perform or work better as Savage is only supported 2D only, there is no 3D acceleration.