No 3D effects with ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] video card

[turzin]

Hi,

       I've got a new P4 computer equipped with an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] 128Mb

When I try to play 3D Games (Supertuxkart for exemple), all is very slow.  Impossible to play.
With a video card like this, I should be able to run games like Supertuxkart.  (With a GeForce 5200 128Mb, all is OK, so there should be no problems with this ATI card)

In the xorg.conf file, I saw the driver in use is "ati".

I tried the fglrx driver instead but as I expected, the X session failed to launch because fglrx is not for older video card like X300 series.

Witch driver can I use?

P.S. Tested in Education and KDE Full

[Old-Polack]

Hi,

       I've got a new P4 computer equipped with an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] 128Mb

When I try to play 3D Games (Supertuxkart for exemple), all is very slow.  Impossible to play.
With a video card like this, I should be able to run games like Supertuxkart.  (With a GeForce 5200 128Mb, all is OK, so there should be no problems with this ATI card)

In the xorg.conf file, I saw the driver in use is "ati".

I tried the fglrx driver instead but as I expected, the X session failed to launch because fglrx is not for older video card like X300 series.

Witch driver can I use?

P.S. Tested in Education and KDE Full

AMD/ATI has dropped support for that card, so you are stuck with whatever open source drivers are available. Not having any ATI cards, I'm not sure what might currently be available, but there is a r300g driver, which is a 3D driver based on Gallium3D, that is said to work well with that card. When you set up your video card in PCC, see if there is a listing for that, and if so select it to see if it helps.

[T6]

the other option is replace that video card

it is popular for being problematic, slow and power hungry(well, that is my opinion)

[AndrzejL]

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,92926.0.html

Try this.

[turzin]

Finally I chosse the simple solution: replace the card for an nVidia GeForce 8600 GT 256Mb.

Thanks guys!

[horusfalcon]

Yup, when it's beyond fixin', chuck it and stick in a different one.

It makes me wonder:  we have a hardware compatibility list somewhere.  Does it contain also a hardware blacklist (as in "stay away from this hardware - we KNOW it won't work...)?  Might be a handy thing come "shop for parts time".

Of course, with PCLinuxOS it's probably a short list...

Later On,
D

[T6]

don't know the state of that list, maybe not active?

about the problem, don't forget to mark this as (SOLVED)