topic title: radeon OpenGL not working
Posts: 13
fenrin
Joined: 10 Feb 2013
#1
Hello there,

I am a new antiX user and still experiencing some issues.

1) the main issue: no proper Radeon support
My ATI card is a Radeon HD 4650. Videoplayback and OpenGL-free programs work decent. But as soon as I attempt to open a game or when I try to use OpenGL mode in mplayer , I find out that it is not properly supported.

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$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

################### PC INFORMATION - graphics #####################
#################### Press CTRL  + C to exit ######################

Graphics:  Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] 
           Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1680x1050@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
I tried both AntiX 13 beta1 and AntiX 12. With AntiX 12 I had also a resolution issue - even xres=1440x900 - did not help. So that is why I decided on installing the new beta instead.

I would prefer if there is a way to get it working with the default Radeon driver (not the proprietary AMD driver).


The issues below are less important for me to fix.

2) wondering: Is it possible to get IceWM working in AntiX 13 beta without much hassle.
I tried it via the metapackage-installer, but it complains that icewm-them is required, but not available.

3) Synaptic not starting
in the JVM menu there is the Synaptic entry, but when I click on it, it does not open. I found out that I can use apt-get install <package> as alternative.

And following is just report about a possible bug, I actually prefer jvm to fluxbox.
4) fluxbox applications in menu missing
I noticed that when I first started fluxbox there were several applications listed in the popup menu. But then below system configuration I changed locale settings; then it installed some locales and the apps in the menu disappeared.

Thanks for any help!
But apart from that, I quite like AntiX so far. I like it more than the other leightweigt distro Porteus I recently tried.
Posts: 279
afab4
Joined: 17 Oct 2009
#2
You can run the smxi script or the sgfxi script to install your video driver. Take a look at this and refer to the section"smxi"

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Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
On my motorcycle shop Desktop. I installed AntiX 11 base iso and i run a liqourix 2.6.38 kernel on it. I don't remember how I got mesa and open gl to work on it but I bet
I googled debian for the solution and installed everything via synaptic.

It runs the radeon open source driver I installed via smxi/sgfxi but I did this so long ago I can't remember my exact steps.
I mainly poke and hope, erase changes via mc in intit 3 boot if no screen shows after my changes.

I know that does not help you much.

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$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 2.6.38-7.dmz.2-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.5.3) 
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.2 Distro: antiX-M11-base-686 Jayaben Desai 25 April 2011
Machine:   System: GATEWAY product: W3507 version: 500
           Mobo: Intel model: D102GGC2 version: AAD70214-201
           Bios: Intel version: GC11020M.15A.2010.2006.0817.0956 date: 08/17/2006
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron D CPU (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 6398.92 clocked at 3199.463 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] bus-ID: 01:05.0 
           X.Org: 1.12.1.902 driver: radeon Resolution: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RC410 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Posts: 13
fenrin
Joined: 10 Feb 2013
#4
Thank you both for your advices __{{emoticon}}__
rokytnji wrote:On my motorcycle shop Desktop. I installed AntiX 11 base iso and i run a liqourix 2.6.38 kernel on it. I don't remember how I got mesa and open gl to work on it but I bet
I googled debian for the solution and installed everything via synaptic.

It runs the radeon open source driver I installed via smxi/sgfxi but I did this so long ago I can't remember my exact steps.
I mainly poke and hope, erase changes via mc in intit 3 boot if no screen shows after my changes.

I know that does not help you much.
[...]
It did help me.

I installed the following and after next start I had it working with OpenGL.

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apt-get install glx-alternative-mesa libgl1-mesa-dri libgles2-mesa
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#5
fenrin wrote:Thank you both for your advices __{{emoticon}}__
rokytnji wrote:On my motorcycle shop Desktop. I installed AntiX 11 base iso and i run a liqourix 2.6.38 kernel on it. I don't remember how I got mesa and open gl to work on it but I bet
I googled debian for the solution and installed everything via synaptic.

It runs the radeon open source driver I installed via smxi/sgfxi but I did this so long ago I can't remember my exact steps.
I mainly poke and hope, erase changes via mc in intit 3 boot if no screen shows after my changes.

I know that does not help you much.
[...]
It did help me.

I installed the following and after next start I had it working with OpenGL.

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apt-get install glx-alternative-mesa libgl1-mesa-dri libgles2-mesa

Gonna give it a try. Because on my Acer Aspire 5534 laptop AntiX 13 (fresh install) I have a

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################### PC INFORMATION - graphics #####################
#################### Press CTRL  + C to exit ######################

Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Mobility Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
Thanks for posting the solution. We will see after reboot what inxi -G spits out after install and reboot. I will edit post if successful.

Edit: I second the solution in this thread. Behold.

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################### PC INFORMATION - graphics #####################
#################### Press CTRL  + C to exit ######################

Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Mobility Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
__{{emoticon}}__

The Laptop in my post is a

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$ inxi -F -z
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.6.11-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit) 
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.2 Distro: antiX-13-beta1_x64-base Ahmad Sami 7 February 2013
Machine:   Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5534 version: V1.10 Bios: Acer version: V1.10 date: 08/26/2009
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon X2 L310 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1197.081 MHz 2: 1197.081 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Mobility Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
Audio:     Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.25
Network:   Card-1: Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (0.9% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK2555GS size: 250.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 7.7G used: 1.8G (25%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 88G used: 453M (1%) fs: btrfs 
           ID: swap-1 size: 2.10GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 59.0C mobo: 0.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 103 Uptime: 32 min Memory: 405.1/3704.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.8.34


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