ati radeon 9550

[toor81]

Hello, i run linux mint felicia and i have ati radeon 9550, i whas ubuntu user for several years using the same ati radeon 9550, it whas an nigthmere . My best gues is becose of the poor fglrx proprietary driver wich it crash my linux instalation evry time.Nevertheless since ubuntu 8.04 i whas able to run compiz-fusion with 3D desktop in deacent condition,the same i vhas been able to play 3D games(Urban Terror, Planet Penguin Racer , TORX, Nexius, Cube . . . allot of them , and manny more) on ubuntu and mint,without using the damnet fglrx proprietary driver, in very good condition.
However regnum online it does not work i got this message:

Unsupported video card!

Your video card is too old
You haven't installed the latest available drivers

My question is: it is possibile to play regnum on this grafic board using open source drivers or propryetary driver?
There is somone else using this grafic board and it has manage to play RO, How?

TNX
And one more time i use linux mint felicia 2.6.27-7 generic felicia is based on xubuntu 8.10 intrepid, using fluxbox 1.0.0 and Xorg 7.4.
TNX Again

[Garenthol_da_great]

I have a similar problem with a Radeon 9600XT (256 MiB)

*EDIT* Toor81 are you using the FGLRX drivers (proprietary ATI drivers)?
Using FGLRX solved the problem for me.

[arlick]

Post the output of this please

clear ; echo Juntando informacion ; echo -n Informe generado el día `date +%D` > pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++CPU+++++" >> pp; echo "Modelo:" >> pp; (cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i "model name" | cut -d: -f2 | grep "" || echo "Sin info") >> pp; echo "MHz:" >> pp; ((cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu MHz' | cut -d: -f2 | grep "") || (echo "Sin info" )) >> pp; echo "Cache:" >> pp; (cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cache size' | cut -d: -f2 | grep "" || echo Sin info) >> pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++Distro+++++" >> pp; echo -n Kernel: `((uname -a) || (echo "Sin info"))` >> pp; echo "">> pp; echo -n "Arquitectura: `uname -m`" >> pp; cat /etc/`ls /etc/ | grep -m1 version` > pp1 || echo "Sin info" > pp1 ; echo "" >> pp; echo -n "Num. Ver..: `cat pp1`" >> pp; echo "" >>pp; rm -f pp1; echo "Carga & uptime:"`(uptime || echo "Sin info")` >> pp; echo Beryl: `(ps aux | grep -i "compiz" | grep -iv "grep" && echo "Beryl Compiz ejecutándose" || echo "No se ejecuta")` >> pp; echo "">>pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++Placa de video+++++" >> pp; echo -n "Hardware: " >> pp; (`locate lspci |grep bin| grep -m1 'lspci' || echo 'echo ERROR en buscar un VGA: no se encuentra lspci'` | grep VGA || echo "Sin VGA disponible") >> pp;echo ""; echo "Aceleracion (Direct Rendering):" `( (glxinfo | grep -i "direct rend" | cut -d: -f2 | grep "") || echo "Sin info")` >> pp; echo "OpenGL:" >> pp; ( (glxinfo | grep -i 'opengl') || echo "Sin info") >> pp; echo Extensiones S3TC: ` ( (glxinfo | grep -i 's3tc')|| echo "No habilitadas")` >> pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++Xorg.conf++++++" >> pp; echo Load: `(cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Load| grep -v '#' | cut -d'"' -f2 | cut -d'"' -f1 | grep "" || echo "No se detectan secciones Load")` >> pp; echo "" >> pp; echo Drivers: `(cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver | grep -v '#'| cut -d'"' -f2 | cut -d'"' -f1 | grep "" || echo "No se detectaron drivers")` >> pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++RAM+++++" >> pp; echo -n "Memoria total: " >> pp; (cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i "MemTotal" | cut -d: -f2 | grep -m1 "" || echo "Sin info") >> pp; echo -n "Memoria libre:" >> pp; (cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i "MemFree" | cut -d: -f2 | grep -m1 "" || echo "Sin info") >> pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++sensores+++++" >> pp; (sensors || echo "No hay sensores") >> pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++HDD+++++" >> pp; (df -hP || echo "No hay info") >> pp; echo "" >> pp; echo "++++++Log de Xorg+++++" >> pp; (cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(EE)\|(WW)" || echo 'Enhorabuena, no se encontraron errores o advertencias!') >> pp; mv pp $HOME/Desktop/diag.txt || mv pp $HOME/Escritorio/diag.txt || mv pp $HOME/diag.txt; echo "informacion disponible en el escritorio. " ; echo "Detallando informacion a continuacion " ; echo "" ; echo ""; echo "" ; cat $HOME/Desktop/diag.txt || cat $HOME/Escritorio/diag.txt || cat $HOME/diag.txt

[toor81]

Juntando informacion

The program 'sensors' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
bash: sensors: command not found
bash: mv: command not found
mv: cannot move `pp' to `/home/teo/Escritorio/diag.txt': No such file or directory
informacion disponible en el escritorio.
Detallando informacion a continuacion



cat: /home/teo/Desktop/diag.txt: No such file or directory
cat: /home/teo/Escritorio/diag.txt: No such file or directory
Informe generado el día 06/08/09
++++++CPU+++++
Modelo:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
MHz:
2659.839
Cache:
1024 KB

++++++Distro+++++
Kernel: Linux teo-desktop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Arquitectura: i686
Num. Ver..: 5.0
Carga & uptime: 09:38:13 up 19 min, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 1.80, 1.10
Beryl: teo 3075 0.0 0.0 1872 480 ? S 09:19 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/compiz teo 3142 0.6 1.2 28984 18828 ? S 09:19 0:07 /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-client-id 10d23111ad516d0756124440593821591700000028140019 core ccp teo 3199 0.0 0.0 1872 424 ? Ss 09:19 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/compiz-decorator teo 3200 0.0 0.0 1872 448 ? S 09:19 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/compiz-decorator Beryl Compiz ejecutándose


++++++Placa de video+++++
Hardware: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]
Aceleracion (Direct Rendering): Yes
OpenGL:
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 8x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.4
OpenGL extensions:
Extensiones S3TC: No habilitadas

++++++Xorg.conf++++++
Load: No se detectan secciones Load

Drivers: No se detectaron drivers

++++++RAM+++++
Memoria total: 1544012 kB
Memoria libre: 35528 kB

++++++sensores+++++
No hay sensores

++++++HDD+++++
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 15G 4.4G 9.4G 32% /
tmpfs 754M 0 754M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 754M 108K 754M 1% /var/run
varlock 754M 0 754M 0% /var/lock
udev 754M 148K 754M 1% /dev
tmpfs 754M 96K 754M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 754M 2.4M 752M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sda4 48G 41G 7.1G 86% /media/Diverse

++++++Log de Xorg+++++
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ...
(WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0xefffe000 is: 0xefffe000
(WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffffffc0 is: 0xf9fff800
teo@teo-desktop:~$

[Nightchill]

I'd tell you how to fix this error, but it's pointless since you're going to get even more annoyed after you start segfaulting. Anyway, your graphics card is not supported any longer by Ati which means you have no access to fglrx (if you don't wish to downgrade your kernel, xorg, etc) and all you're left with is open source driver (radeon). Because of that game won't run.

EDIT: oops, disregard that, i forgot that onemyndseye solved the segfault with open source drivers, so here's 2 links:
The workaround for the unsupported video card issue
The workaround for the segfault issue

[toor81]

Tnx for help but i am no gona downgrade my kernel . . . i am gona w8 some time and i am gona buy a nvidia card or better a new PC tnx anyway

[Anpu]

Originally Posted by toor81

Tnx for help but i am no gona downgrade my kernel . . . i am gona w8 some time and i am gona buy a nvidia card or better a new PC tnx anyway

Hi, I use ATI 9250, and I did steps like NC already posted you:
http://regnumonline.com.ar/forum/sho...72&postcount=7
After that, Regnum started to work, and no more unsupported card message. So far, I have no problem with it, and runs smooth. This doesn't require anything with kernel (the link I gave you).
Before taking these steps, I was able, like you, to play all other games, except Regnum.
I hope this will help.

[Arafails]

ATI 9250? With the r200 chip?
It runs smooth?

Dang, if I'd managed to get it to run smooth on that chip I'dve actually been playing in Nov 2007.

[Anpu]

Originally Posted by Arafails

ATI 9250? With the r200 chip?
It runs smooth?

Dang, if I'd managed to get it to run smooth on that chip I've actually been playing in Nov 2007.

yup, r200.
I just did those steps I posted (I was even recently installing system and still works ok). I played both on Windows and Kubuntu, and game just goes faster and smooth in Linux. Also, I have all those window effects on, but still my FPS is rarely below 40 (except in crowds, ofc).