No direct rendering for ATI Radeon Xpress 200M

[Pascal d'Hermilly]

Binary package hint: xorg

Kubuntu Edgy doesn't detect the direct rendering of my ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.
Is there anything I can do to help with getting this to work?

[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

Pascal, have you tried the official ATI drivers?
    'sudo aptitude install xorg-driver-fglrx' then reboot

[Pascal d'Hermilly (pascal-tipisoft)]

Now I installed them. But I still don't have direct rendering.
glxinfo also gives an error now:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

Try doing 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and answer the questions in the menu as they apply to you. When it asks which display driver to use, select fglrx. Once you're done, reboot and test.
If everything works, the command 'fglrxinfo' should list strings about ATI, Radeon, and OpenGL, and the driver version.

If the above instructions still do not work, it may be helpful to post any error messages. In that case, run 'dmesg | grep fglrx' and copy the output (if any) here.

[Pascal d'Hermilly (pascal-tipisoft)]

It still doesn't work.
pascal@pascal-laptop:~$ glxinfo | grep render
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
direct rendering: No
    GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
pascal@pascal-laptop:~$ fglrxinfo
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)

pascal@pascal-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep fglrx
[17179601.088000] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 616 MBytes.
[17179601.088000] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.28.8 [Aug 17 2006] on minor 0

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

fglrx is not directly related to xorg, but to the closed source ATI's binary driver, a kernel module of which is in linux-restricted-modules.

There's no direct rendering with the open source drivers because AMD/ATI has not published the needed information for that to be written. Regarding closed fglrx drivers, they (AMD/ATI) are also the only ones who can fix problems in that driver.