[gentoo-user] Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[gentoo-user] Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Walter Dnes]

  Is it possible using standard Gentoo, or do I have to load a
proprietary driver?  In either case, what are the steps to follow?  I
did try Google, and found a zillion links on how to install GoogleEarth
under Wine, which is not what I want.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Dale]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Is it possible using standard Gentoo, or do I have to load a
> proprietary driver?  In either case, what are the steps to follow?  I
> did try Google, and found a zillion links on how to install GoogleEarth
> under Wine, which is not what I want.
>
>   

Googleearth is in portage.  You have to unmask it but it's in there and
it worked fine for me.  At least it was anyway.

I hope that helps.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:36:56PM -0600, Dale wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   Is it possible using standard Gentoo, or do I have to load a
> > proprietary driver?  In either case, what are the steps to follow?  I
> > did try Google, and found a zillion links on how to install GoogleEarth
> > under Wine, which is not what I want.
> >
> >   
> 
> Googleearth is in portage.  You have to unmask it but it's in there
> and it worked fine for me.  At least it was anyway.

  "What we have here is a failure to communicate".  Let me restate my
question.  I already have GoogleEarth for linux installed.  It's damn
slow.  The subject in my original original post is not about installing,
but about speeding up GoogleEarth.  What is "the Gentoo way" of
installing proprietary ATI drivers for my video card?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> Is it possible using standard Gentoo,

Yes.

> or do I have to load a proprietary driver?

Yes.

> In either case, what are the steps to follow?

Use standard Gentoo to install the proprietary driver:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers

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[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-09, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:43:29PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>> On 2007-03-05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > In either case, what are the steps to follow?
>> 
>> Use standard Gentoo to install the proprietary driver:
>> 
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
>
>   Later... that very same evening... OK, I've installed ati-drivers with
> /etc/make.conf containing    VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fglrx"
>
>   I did "eselect opengl ati", ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and
> re-install of ati-drivers)

Run glxinfo and check the first few lines.  What does it say
for "direct rendering:" ?

I'm guessing it says "No".

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[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-09, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
>>   I did "eselect opengl ati", ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and
>> re-install of ati-drivers)
>> 
>>   Testing with glxgears, I get...
>> waltdnes@m3000 ~ $ glxgears 
>> 7492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.333 FPS
>>   googleearth still runs^H^H^H^H^H crawls under OpenGL.
>
> Yep - not that impressive, did you try the Xorg Radeon driver?

The "radeon" driver doesn't support DRI on cards that recent.

> Using the same test on inferior HW (2xPIII 1.26Ghz + MSI
> Radean 9550) with "radeon" driver I get:
>
> 8931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1786.100 FPS

That's not going to make a noticable difference.  You have to
have DRI to make Google Earth usable. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:18:53PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote

> Run glxinfo and check the first few lines.  What does it say
> for "direct rendering:" ?
> 
> I'm guessing it says "No".

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, 
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, 
    GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_ARB_multisample, 
    GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X300/X550 Series Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6234 (8.32.5)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Friday 09 March 2007, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?':
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:18:53PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>
> > Run glxinfo and check the first few lines.  What does it say
> > for "direct rendering:" ?
>
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes

Well, then you have DRI working.

You might enable/disable some driver options and/or server extensions to 
get the best speed out of your DRI.

> server glx vendor string: SGI

However, it looks like you might be using the wrong driver or glx library; 
I've fairly sure this is supposed to be 'ATI' when using fglrx.  Anything 
interesting in grep -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Walter Dnes]

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:55:57AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote

> Well, then you have DRI working.
> 
> You might enable/disable some driver options and/or server extensions to 
> get the best speed out of your DRI.
> 
> > server glx vendor string: SGI
> 
> However, it looks like you might be using the wrong driver or glx library; 
> I've fairly sure this is supposed to be 'ATI' when using fglrx.  Anything 
> interesting in grep -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

  A few items of interest.  I actually ran
grep -A5 -B5 -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and then trimmed down a bit.

1)
1609-(**) Extension "XVideo" is enabled
1644:(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
1718-(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
1756-(II) Module ABI versions:
1782-   X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3

  I assume that this means no screensaver.


2)
21946-(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Dec 12 2006 17:18:27
22013-(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.32.2.1.2.3-driver-lnx-x86-x86_64-313294
22125-(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
22187:(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:5:0:1) found
22263-(--) Chipset RADEON X300/X550 Series (RV370 5B60) found

  lspci shows 2 entries for the video card...
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]

  What is the second entry dupposed to be for?

3)
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x1
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
(==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor
(**) fglrx(0): Video overlay enabled on CRTC1

  Does this matter at all?

4)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:5:0:0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 8
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports PCI:5:0:0
(EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

  "reverting to software rendering" ouch.  This is probably it.  Now
what?

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