Direct rendering issue in FC 5?

[thejeremy]

Hello everyone,

I recently installed Fedora Core 5 on my computer, replacing FC4. I was lookin for a game or two to put on there, so I found one and installed it. When I ran it, it said something to the effect of direct rendering not being enabled, and the game will run slowly/look choppy. It was pretty choppy, so I looked into this. There is a command to see if direct rendering is enabled and when I did this it outputted "Direct Rendering: Yes", so it seems as if it IS enabled...

I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card, and I'm pretty sure I installed the drivers correctly according to this website:

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html

Has anyone else had this problem? What should I do?

Thanks in advance.

 

[macdude425]

Just to confirm, you DO have fglrx installed?

Have you enabled DRI in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

 

[thejeremy]

It looks like I have fglrx installed, so I'm pretty sure I do. I always find these driver issues confusing.

Here are the relevant sections of my xorg.conf file. Is there anything I need to edit in here that would make a difference?

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "hp v72"
DisplaySize 320 240
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 140.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro]"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

 

[thejeremy]

I actually just found this too in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:


(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
(--) Chipset RADEON 9800 PRO (R350 4E48) found


Could this be an issue?

 

[macdude425]

Very likely yes, since it doesn't detect your card totally correctly. Make sure your BusID is correct against what you find in lspci for the card.