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Kutuntu Feisty + ATI + GLX = Display problem

Asked by Eduardo Luis Silva

Does anyone can take a look at this forum topic I posted at Beryls forum and see If had the same problem or just know the answer?
http://www.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=158&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

I am using the opens ource driver for ATI and having this display problem, while running Beryl or just simple typing glxgears on the terminal.

thank you.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Do you have an ATI 9500 graphics card?
If so, be aware that the Open Source ATI drivers do not support (or they do it badly) 3D acceleration for this model.

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Eduardo Luis Silva (elpsilva) said : 		#2

Yes I have ATI Radeon 9500 PRO.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#3

As I said, the 3D open source driver support for this card is not very good. Please have a look at:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon

Also, if you look in your Xorg.0.log file you will see something like:

(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer.

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Javier Jardón (jjardon) said : 		#4

Try to install compiz, (from compiz.org: "The Compiz and Beryl communities are pleased to announce that they will be reuniting")

follow this guide: http://compiz.org/Ubuntu_Installation_Guide

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Eduardo Luis Silva (elpsilva) said : 		#5

Cesare:
I know some ATI board are not fully supported, but I've read and more than one pepole on the OpenComposite (Beryl) forum said it worked.

I am wondering if there is some kind of problem with my GLX lib instalation.

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Eduardo Luis Silva (elpsilva) said : 		#6

Question: Can I try Beryl with proprietary drivers from ATI?

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Javier Jardón (jjardon) said : 		#7

Hello Eduardo!

Of course, you can. Follow this guide : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

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