Need a Game RPM for FC4 x86-64 , for graphics Driver testing

[The Linuxator]

I just want to see my how will my gaming rig perform in Linux, with some simple FPS games( like some old ports from windows), so I need some links to linux games RPM's that are easy to install and run, :thumbsup:

 

[nweaver]

to test graphics: glxgears

 

[The Linuxator]

After I made a couple of guesses in the terminal I got TUX PPR racer installed from the repositories, but expecting my X800XL to handle it with all ease it turned out it was just chugging along slowly frame by frame which leads me to the conclusion that my driver isn't working and FC4 x86-64 is using a generic VESA driver to render those frames, but on boot up I see the ATI fgrlx module loading ?

But to be honest, in FC4 if you check the list of drivers for supported graphics card , all X800 series is there except for X800XL, and trying any other X800 series driver from the menu on my card (Xt and Pro) drivers make X fail at boot !!!
Would like to know if ATI's driver loader can be installed through any rpm available out there.
I am thinking as a last resort since I am considering flashing ny XL to XT anyway(for windows gaming) if an X800XL to an XT flash is possible and sucessful then maybe that way the XT driver would work, but I need a Linux Guru in here to confirm that possibility.
I tried ATI drivers but I couldn't get the driver loader to work, I mean WTF, I was able to install Spybot Search & Destroy on FC4 X86-64 and do a sucessful scan, and no I am not joking I used WINE but I still laughed my A$$ off when it did a scan on FC4, the most useful thing that worked for me though is CPUZ I am able to run CPUZ cpuid utility on FC4 in WINE without a hitch sweet. but still the freaking ATI driver loader wont work.

Anbody?

 

[The Linuxator]

 

[drag]

not sure what is going on, but it's pretty simple to know for certain if your using your hardware acceleration on your display..

The command is:
glxinfo


It will tell you details about what sort of capabilities your display is able to handle. The important part would be a line that looks something like 'direct rendering:' and the answer should be yes if your getting hardware acceleration and 'no' if your not. Pretty simple.

To know what driver your using you need to look at a couple different places. First place is your x.org configuration file. It's located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and that file is used to store the configurations for X. You can look in there and find the section about your video card and then you'd know what X driver your using.

Next thing to check out is your X server log file and that is located in /var/log/ and will be something like Xorg.0.log or similar file. In there you will find more details about what is going on when X starts.

For determining hardware check out various files in your /proc directory. This directory holds random bits of information about resources in your hardware and software. Stuff like /proc/asound for your alsa-driven sound card, /proc/cpuinfo, for cpu info and lots of other usefull stuff. Those files don't realy exist, they are just information that are shown as files on a virtual file system (this one is called proc) to make it easy for you to interact with.

There are also a few commands like lspci and lsusb. They have modifiers for various different ways to display information.
for isntance.
sudo lspci -v

will display a lot more information then just lspci. -v is for verbose.

Also learn how to use Yum. It's a automated way to isntall and manage packages on Fedora Core. Try Yum update. There are third party rpm repositories like Dag's rpms that will offer many games, but always be sure to read the FAQs and any documentation that is aviable on stuff.

 

[The Linuxator]

I tried the command you told me about :



name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI -
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,
GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x22 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 1 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None

 

[drag]

direct rendering: No

So nope. You have no 3d acceleration.

So go thru the installation documentation and make sure that you didn't miss and steps. Especially anything about restarting X or editing the configuration files.

 

[The Linuxator]

the easiest way for doing this is though using ATI 's driver loader
the problem here is that it's not working its giving me a big text file and I don't know what I am supposed to do with it , I try running the command they ask to run from the terminal but still no go. llink