Direct Rendering - Revision history

Paulm at 00:38, 20 October 2013

2013-10-20T00:38:44Z

Messingerevan: added information on the ATI RV100 adapter

2011-05-20T00:14:09Z

added information on the ATI RV100 adapter

Messingerevan: initial edit, more to come

2011-05-19T23:18:59Z

initial edit, more to come

Messingerevan: New page: '''Use this script to test for direct rendering and for graphics-driver-related problems while running X''' download media:Glx.sh‎ open terminal and cd to the directory you downloa...

2011-03-05T01:10:44Z

New page: '''Use this script to test for direct rendering and for graphics-driver-related problems while running X''' *download media:Glx.sh‎ *open terminal and cd to the directory you downloa...

New page

'''Use this script to test for direct rendering and for graphics-driver-related problems while running X'''
*download [[media:Glx.sh‎]]
*open terminal and cd to the directory you downloaded the script to
*make it executable by running <code>chmod +x Glx.sh</code>
* run it as <code>./Glx.sh</code>

[[Category: Tech support]]

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	This page is intended to be the hub of information on graphics-driver-related problems and getting VGA adapters to run correctly. While X autoconfiguration is nice for the majority of users, not having an xorg.conf by default makes it difficult to diagnose graphics problems.		This page is intended to be the hub of information on graphics-driver-related problems and getting VGA adapters to run correctly. While X autoconfiguration is nice for the majority of users, not having an xorg.conf by default makes it difficult to diagnose graphics problems.

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	''Note that systems running the nouveau driver will '''not''' report <code>Direct Rendering: Yes</code> even if they are properly utilizing DRI. Nouveau's kernel module is a staging driver [http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/linux-staging-update.html (info)] and does not yet sit right with Mesa. Nouveau is a cool thing, but it isn't really ready for mass consumption yet (even though Ubuntu loves it). If you're really having problems, fall back to the proprietary Nvidia drivers, which are known to work well.''		''Note that systems running the nouveau driver will '''not''' report <code>Direct Rendering: Yes</code> even if they are properly utilizing DRI. Nouveau's kernel module is a staging driver [http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/linux-staging-update.html (info)] and does not yet sit right with Mesa. Nouveau is a cool thing, but it isn't really ready for mass consumption yet (even though Ubuntu loves it). If you're really having problems, fall back to the proprietary Nvidia drivers, which are known to work well.''
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		+	===ATI Radeon RV100===
		+	*<code>fglrx</code> proprietary drivers do not support this chipset. Use the open-source drivers called <code>ati</code>
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		+	*Use <code>smplayer</code> and a bleeding-edge version of <code>mplayer</code>
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		+	*Include this in your xorg.conf or make a new one (with <code>sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf</code>) and copy in this information:
		+
		+	Section "Device"
		+	Identifier "Radeon 7000"
		+	Driver "ati"
		+	BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
		+	EndSection
		+
		+	Section "Monitor"
		+	Identifier "monitor1"
		+	Option "DPMS"
		+	EndSection
		+
		+	Section "DRI"
		+	Mode 0666
		+	EndSection
		+
		+	The <code>DRI</code> section is the functional one, but you want the others just to make communications between X and Ubuntu clear. It's also useful to be able to change which driver you're using by just changing the <code>Driver</code> option. = )

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-'''Use this script to test for direct rendering and for graphics-driver-related problems while running X'''
+This page is intended to be the hub of information on graphics-driver-related problems and getting VGA adapters to run correctly. While X autoconfiguration is nice for the majority of users, not having an xorg.conf by default makes it difficult to diagnose graphics problems.
-*download [[media:Glx.sh‎]]
-*open terminal and cd to the directory you downloaded the script to
+*A lot of the time, complaints like "DVD skipping" can be solved with the smplayer frontend to a bleeding-edge release of mplayer. Try:
-*make it executable by running <code>chmod +x Glx.sh</code>
+ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:motumedia/mplayer-daily
-* run it as <code>./Glx.sh</code>
+ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer smplayer
 [[Category: Tech support]]

Direct Rendering - Revision history

Paulm at 00:38, 20 October 2013

Messingerevan: added information on the ATI RV100 adapter

Messingerevan: initial edit, more to come

Messingerevan: New page: '''Use this script to test for direct rendering and for graphics-driver-related problems while running X''' *download media:Glx.sh‎ *open terminal and cd to the directory you downloa...

Messingerevan: New page: '''Use this script to test for direct rendering and for graphics-driver-related problems while running X''' download media:Glx.sh‎ open terminal and cd to the directory you downloa...