More speed Radeon 7000 DRI
If you wish to get more speed from your Radeon 7000 In Linux (Slackware or Ubuntu) --- Follow these steps (Originall from Ubuntu forums - Slackware tips figured out by me)
UBUNTU --
Starting with a basic Dapper install download the latest radeon snapshot from here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
Extract to a folder in your home directory, eg: /home/???/radeon-20060403-linux.386/
Open synaptec package manager and enable the universe repository and install:
Linux Kernel Headers
linux-headers-x86
make
gcc
driconf
(For SLACKWARE instead of this what you want to do - if you already have your kernel headers and GCC - is head to http://www.slacky.eu/repository/slackware-12.0/system/driconf/0.9.1/ --- And get the driconf - TGZ package -- install it with 'installpkg packname.tgz' you must be root to run installpkg. - after that drop to consold and type 'driconf' you should see the program run in X.)
Open up a terminal and cd to the radeon directory above. Then run sudo ./install.sh
If all goes well type:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the Device section to look like the following:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "True"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection
Ensure that you use the same identifier in the screen section if you change it in this section, leave it be is probably best.
Save and exit.
Now run driconf. Do not run this as sudo, some user space applications will not pickup the changes if you do. In my case google earth would not run properly until I ran it as a regular user. (had to sudo rm .drirc before running as a regular user after I had run it as root.)
Change the TCL mode to "Use Software TCL Pipeline" and Use HyperZ to Yes. Save and quit.
Reboot and run glxgears -printfps. Mine went up from around 250fps to 850fps and I nolonger have funny artifacts all over preventing me from using Google Earth.
UBUNTU --
Starting with a basic Dapper install download the latest radeon snapshot from here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
Extract to a folder in your home directory, eg: /home/???/radeon-20060403-linux.386/
Open synaptec package manager and enable the universe repository and install:
Linux Kernel Headers
linux-headers-x86
make
gcc
driconf
(For SLACKWARE instead of this what you want to do - if you already have your kernel headers and GCC - is head to http://www.slacky.eu/repository/slackware-12.0/system/driconf/0.9.1/ --- And get the driconf - TGZ package -- install it with 'installpkg packname.tgz' you must be root to run installpkg. - after that drop to consold and type 'driconf' you should see the program run in X.)
Open up a terminal and cd to the radeon directory above. Then run sudo ./install.sh
If all goes well type:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the Device section to look like the following:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "True"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection
Ensure that you use the same identifier in the screen section if you change it in this section, leave it be is probably best.
Save and exit.
Now run driconf. Do not run this as sudo, some user space applications will not pickup the changes if you do. In my case google earth would not run properly until I ran it as a regular user. (had to sudo rm .drirc before running as a regular user after I had run it as root.)
Change the TCL mode to "Use Software TCL Pipeline" and Use HyperZ to Yes. Save and quit.
Reboot and run glxgears -printfps. Mine went up from around 250fps to 850fps and I nolonger have funny artifacts all over preventing me from using Google Earth.
posted by Justin @ 5:39 AM
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