No 3D GL Acceleration (DRI) for ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500, and Mobility M6

[F.H.]

3D GL acceleration (direct rendering) on all these ATI Radeon cards (ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500, and Mobility M6 LY/LZ/etc.) *does not* work out of the box with Ubuntu Breezy. The problem and possible solutions have been described multiple times in various community venues. A how-to on ubuntuforums.org (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=72391) seems to solve the problem for some people, but requires skills beyond those of the average user.

3D GL acceleration for these cards should work out of the box.

This may be related to bug #3286 https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/3286

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Have you applied all the latest updates? What does
dpkg -l \*mesa\* | grep ii
say?

[F.H. (fheinsen)]

In response to Sisofe Wheeler -- my system has the latest updates:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
...
$ dpkg -l \*mesa\* | grep ii
ii libgl1-mesa 6.3.2-0ubuntu6breezy1 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- runtime
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 6.3.2-0ubuntu6breezy1 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI run
ii libglu1-mesa 6.3.2-0ubuntu6breezy1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii mesa-utils 6.3.2-0ubuntu6 Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

That HOWTO doesn't seem correct. Can you confirm if the 'radeon' module gets loaded at all when DRI works?

[F.H. (fheinsen)]

I do remember distinctly that after following the how-to, an `lsmod | grep radeon` on my system listed both a 'radeon' module and a 'drm' module depending on it.

Unfortunately, I can't confirm so for sure anymore because earlier this week I had to start using this machine for day-to-day work and couldn't really risk messing anything up anymore, so I decided to go back to the officially supported xorg packages and dpkg-reconfigured the xserver with --default-priority. In short, I now need this machine to be very stable and can't really afford to tinker with it at the moment.

That said, since I'm back to the default xorg setup (i.e., non-accelerated), I'd be happy to provide you with copies of any configuration files, logs, or command outputs you may need to try and figure out the cause of the problem.

[Mark Ruddell (launchpad-mruddell)]

I've been unable to get acceleration to work in ubuntu for my ATI Radeon"All-in-Wonder" which I believe is a 7200 series card with the R100 chipset. I tried all the howtos I could find on the forums and didn't get anywhere. In fact the systme got so messed up I ended up with a glxgears frame rate of 2!!!

Now I've just installed breezy afresh and applied the updates. Here is my xorg.conf

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# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "GLcore"
        Load "i2c"
        Load "bitmap"
        Load "ddc"
        Load "dri"
        Load "extmod"
        Load "freetype"
        Load "glx"
        Load "int10"
        Load "type1"
        Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Configured Mouse"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "CorePointer"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 7200 (R100 QD)"
        Driver "ati"
        BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "electr19b4"
        Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 7200 (R100 QD)"
        Monitor "electr19b4"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                D...

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

It works for me on Dapper, can you please verify if that's the case for you as well?

Fabio

[F.H. (fheinsen)]

Fabio,

It's working fine for me on Dapper.

Warm regards,

Franz

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

 status FixReleased

[Cristian (cristian-nuke)]

It's worked fine for me on Dapper, but in Edgy it don't work!
glxgears is running veeeeery slow