ATI: 3D acceleration work in Xorg, but in XGL don't

Matthias Hopf mhopf at suse.de
Thu Sep 28 04:14:40 PDT 2006


On Sep 08, 06 11:10:25 +0200, Predseda3D wrote:
> Hi,
> I have problem running XGL. I have AMD64, ATI x300 (PCIE), Debian Etch AMD64, fglrx driver 8.28.8,
> Xorg 7.0.22, Mesa 6.5.1+cvs20060824, XGL 7.0.0+cvs20060625, linux kernel 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8.
> 
> I have configured Xorg to use proprietary ATI fglrx driver. It is working good.
> 
> Under Xorg glxinfo say, that it is using ATI driver and 3D working well:
> Code:
> 
> But under XGL, glxinfo say, that it is using mesa driver:
> Code:

This is a FAQ: http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl

> So XGL is very slow, compiz don't work, because don't have right driver. I don't know why.

No, Xgl is typically extremely slow with the fglrx driver, when not
using a compositing manager. This is a fglrx bug, which will probably be
fixed soon.

> so in windowed mode 3D acceleration work good. then i can start compiz and everything going well,
> but only in windowed mode.

There is no difference between windowed and non-windowed mode. Heck, in
fact there is no non-windowed mode at all.

Matthias

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