Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
It always happens that you were glanced over by some smooth CELL SDK that convinced you that the required proof of love was to install a simulator and of course that meant installing Linux on a free partition 
.
Fedora Core 4 was installed, the simulator (after some work...) was installed and running, Firefox was set-up and running with the latest JRE, the latest 1.0.7 release and all the plugins and (after a bit of searching around ot to screw things up) the ATI Linux driver 8.18.08 was installed, recognized and able to let me run with 3D/2D Acceleration.
Naturally that is exactly the point where a sane person would stop and use what he has while the insane one would say... what about upgrading the system ?
Downloaded all the offered upgrads including the kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 (SMP version too, which is the one I use here since the CPU is a Pentium IV with HyperThreading).
Of course that broke the ATI acceleration support, but it was enough to install the driver again to get it back and running... since many packages including GCC had been updated I cleaned back the CELL simulator's directory and installed it all from scratch (else it would give me an error as it would only partially re-compiling it).
That was not enough.. when they released the 2.6.14-x kernel I had to upgrade to that... it broke again the ATI driver support so I reverted to 2.6.13-x and uninstalled the newest one just installed (useful thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg04636.html ) as ATI does not support the latest one, re-installing the driver did nothing.
The system is:
CPU: Pentium IV 2.8 GHz with HyperThreading.
GPU: 400 MHz RADEON 9600 (RV350) with 256 MB of DDR SDRAM.
Main RAM: 512 MB of DDR SDRAM.
HDD partition: 10 GB (the rest is all for Windows XP... good puppy, good puppy)
The problem is that I feel, and from what I have read I am quite positive I am feeling the right thing, that the GPU is not running ultra-fast:
Here is the output for fglrxinfo:
and
This "Generic" bit worries me as if the OpenGL driver did nto recognize and enabled SSE/SSE2 extensions for the CPU.
Another thing, AGP seems built in the kernel as the fglrx driver tells me it has to switch to Linux kernel AGP support instead of using its internal AGP gart. BTW, yes fglrx is one of the running modules and it is used by the applications (as /sbin/lsmod reports).
Here is the output of the dmesg tool related to agpgart and the fglrx driver for the ATI RADEON 9600:
Is the AGP aperture too low at 32 MB, do you see other problems there ?
Here is the GPU related lines of my customized /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (I added this Sony monitor in replacing the default one the ATI tool fglrxconfig configured when creating the xorg.conf file):
This ( Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes" ) line is the one that is casuing the "warning" before, the one in which it tells me that he cannot use its own agpgart module, but it has to use the kernel's AGP support.
The BusID one worries me more as it makes me suspect that it is forcing the GPU to run as a PCI card instead of as an AGP card, but I admit that I have not done the proper amount of research on this particular item of the xorg.conf file.
The AGP Fast Writes option is not present in the xorg.conf file that ATI's tool creates, so I do not know if it is enabled by default or if it is a sign that the ATI tool thought it was safer to place my card as a PCI card and let me change things after if I wanted to.
Do you see anything majorly wrong or that could be improoved
Thanks again to any poster who at least glances at this thread, I hope I provided enough informations to describe my set-up and my problem, but if you need more details please do ask in this thread.
.Fedora Core 4 was installed, the simulator (after some work...) was installed and running, Firefox was set-up and running with the latest JRE, the latest 1.0.7 release and all the plugins and (after a bit of searching around ot to screw things up) the ATI Linux driver 8.18.08 was installed, recognized and able to let me run with 3D/2D Acceleration.
Naturally that is exactly the point where a sane person would stop and use what he has while the insane one would say... what about upgrading the system ?
Downloaded all the offered upgrads including the kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 (SMP version too, which is the one I use here since the CPU is a Pentium IV with HyperThreading).
Of course that broke the ATI acceleration support, but it was enough to install the driver again to get it back and running... since many packages including GCC had been updated I cleaned back the CELL simulator's directory and installed it all from scratch (else it would give me an error as it would only partially re-compiling it).
That was not enough.. when they released the 2.6.14-x kernel I had to upgrade to that... it broke again the ATI driver support so I reverted to 2.6.13-x and uninstalled the newest one just installed (useful thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg04636.html ) as ATI does not support the latest one, re-installing the driver did nothing.
The system is:
CPU: Pentium IV 2.8 GHz with HyperThreading.
GPU: 400 MHz RADEON 9600 (RV350) with 256 MB of DDR SDRAM.
Main RAM: 512 MB of DDR SDRAM.
HDD partition: 10 GB (the rest is all for Windows XP... good puppy, good puppy)
The problem is that I feel, and from what I have read I am quite positive I am feeling the right thing, that the GPU is not running ultra-fast:
Here is the output for fglrxinfo:
and
This "Generic" bit worries me as if the OpenGL driver did nto recognize and enabled SSE/SSE2 extensions for the CPU.
Another thing, AGP seems built in the kernel as the fglrx driver tells me it has to switch to Linux kernel AGP support instead of using its internal AGP gart. BTW, yes fglrx is one of the running modules and it is used by the applications (as /sbin/lsmod reports).
Here is the output of the dmesg tool related to agpgart and the fglrx driver for the ATI RADEON 9600:
Is the AGP aperture too low at 32 MB, do you see other problems there ?
Here is the GPU related lines of my customized /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (I added this Sony monitor in replacing the default one the ATI tool fglrxconfig configured when creating the xorg.conf file):
This ( Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes" ) line is the one that is casuing the "warning" before, the one in which it tells me that he cannot use its own agpgart module, but it has to use the kernel's AGP support.
The BusID one worries me more as it makes me suspect that it is forcing the GPU to run as a PCI card instead of as an AGP card, but I admit that I have not done the proper amount of research on this particular item of the xorg.conf file.
The AGP Fast Writes option is not present in the xorg.conf file that ATI's tool creates, so I do not know if it is enabled by default or if it is a sign that the ATI tool thought it was safer to place my card as a PCI card and let me change things after if I wanted to.
Do you see anything majorly wrong or that could be improoved
Thanks again to any poster who at least glances at this thread, I hope I provided enough informations to describe my set-up and my problem, but if you need more details please do ask in this thread.
