Linux, Toruque, ATI, puked and died.
by Dreamer · in Torque Game Engine · 06/14/2004 (10:36 pm) · 10 replies
After spending the better half of the night convincing the latest HEAD release of Torque to compile under a fresh install of Mandrake 10, I decided to play the example starter.fps
I got an amazingly crappy 4 count 'em 4 frames per second.
Not only that but ALL of the textures looked like the static you get on a television that has been tuned to a non-existant channel.
So, assuming that I had screwed something up in the course of compiling, I decided to just take the easy way out and did a COMPLETE hardrive wipe.
I then re-installed Mandrake 10, and downloaded the Torque Demo app for linux.
EXACT same results.
Here is my setup
AMD Athlon 2200+ XP
1GB of 400 MHZ DDR SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200 w/256MB of DDR SDRAM
Mandrake Linux 10 with default ATI fglrx drivers and setup.
Any suggestions on what the issue may be?
I got an amazingly crappy 4 count 'em 4 frames per second.
Not only that but ALL of the textures looked like the static you get on a television that has been tuned to a non-existant channel.
So, assuming that I had screwed something up in the course of compiling, I decided to just take the easy way out and did a COMPLETE hardrive wipe.
I then re-installed Mandrake 10, and downloaded the Torque Demo app for linux.
EXACT same results.
Here is my setup
AMD Athlon 2200+ XP
1GB of 400 MHZ DDR SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200 w/256MB of DDR SDRAM
Mandrake Linux 10 with default ATI fglrx drivers and setup.
Any suggestions on what the issue may be?
#2
There is a brand new release of it, but it doesn't work with the 2.6 kernel which is where we are at right now :(
Could be a kernel issue, anyone else have feedback on ATI?
06/15/2004 (9:51 am)
Yeah fglrx is the accelerated driver.There is a brand new release of it, but it doesn't work with the 2.6 kernel which is where we are at right now :(
Could be a kernel issue, anyone else have feedback on ATI?
#3
06/15/2004 (12:39 pm)
That is wild. I have run Torque on Linux with an 8500, but that was, maybe a year ago? The problem does not lie within Torque though. Using the fglrx drivers it did, at one point, work.
#4
>I actually found NVIDIA's new driver install method completely painless.
The problems I'm talking about are specific to the 2.6.x kernel. First, (in case someone else has issues) disable acpi by passing: acpi=off and noapic or a combination of pci=noacpi and pci=biosirq to the kernel.
This occurs on some boards and pci=noacpi worked on my specific board.
Also, CONFIG_4K_STACK option is very much a nvidia driver killer. Until they fix their binaries, you gotta use the 8k stack option.
06/15/2004 (2:19 pm)
Could be related to the Nvidia driver problem I had with the 2.6 kernel. Copy/paste:>I actually found NVIDIA's new driver install method completely painless.
The problems I'm talking about are specific to the 2.6.x kernel. First, (in case someone else has issues) disable acpi by passing: acpi=off and noapic or a combination of pci=noacpi and pci=biosirq to the kernel.
This occurs on some boards and pci=noacpi worked on my specific board.
Also, CONFIG_4K_STACK option is very much a nvidia driver killer. Until they fix their binaries, you gotta use the 8k stack option.
#5
I just found that the newest (as in yesterdays release) does support 2.6x kernels.
I just grabbed 2.6.6 from kernel.org, and am compiling a custom kernel with the latest ATI drivers builtin.
Assuming this doesn't wipe me completely out, I will post the results.
This is getting a bit rediculous though, so if anyone has a functional linux/torque setup that rocks (as in performs at least as well as under Windows), I would like to know what your exact hardware config is. I am not too opposed to going to walmart and buying a few of the $99 special Nvidia boards, just to get this sucker functional.
06/15/2004 (2:50 pm)
Yeah I agree, just curious if ANYONE currently has a functional Mandrake 10 with ATI, and a functional Torque build.I just found that the newest (as in yesterdays release) does support 2.6x kernels.
I just grabbed 2.6.6 from kernel.org, and am compiling a custom kernel with the latest ATI drivers builtin.
Assuming this doesn't wipe me completely out, I will post the results.
This is getting a bit rediculous though, so if anyone has a functional linux/torque setup that rocks (as in performs at least as well as under Windows), I would like to know what your exact hardware config is. I am not too opposed to going to walmart and buying a few of the $99 special Nvidia boards, just to get this sucker functional.
#8
Their drivers suck, so does their attitude to linux, as in, they are another one of those "lets not put too much effort into this linux 'thing', seeing as it only has %1-%5 percent usage on the desktop" their support for everyone sucks too.
Suffice to say, I gave up and sold the 9600XT so I could get an Nvidia card, 5900xt, which I know have bios modded to run at 5950 Ultra speeds... Lucky me.
06/17/2004 (12:02 pm)
As far as Im concerned, ATi sucks dogs balls with linux.Their drivers suck, so does their attitude to linux, as in, they are another one of those "lets not put too much effort into this linux 'thing', seeing as it only has %1-%5 percent usage on the desktop" their support for everyone sucks too.
Suffice to say, I gave up and sold the 9600XT so I could get an Nvidia card, 5900xt, which I know have bios modded to run at 5950 Ultra speeds... Lucky me.
#9
Any suggestions?
06/17/2004 (8:40 pm)
Yeah thats my next step, but I live in the middle of nowhere wyoming, and all we got is walmart, with our choice of nVidia 5200 FX based cards or GeForce 4 based cards.Any suggestions?
#10
06/17/2004 (8:48 pm)
Go with the FX, better shader support.
Torque Owner Ben Woodhead
As far as I know ATI released there own linux drivers. Perhaps the one you are using is not accelerated. Check up www.linuxgames.com, they have a news post about the new driver release.
Later, Ben