Full 3D Acceleration with Radeon 9100 IGP

I'm trying to get CSS working using Wine and Cedega. Steam works without a problem, and the games are fully updated, but the Half-Life 2 main menu map doesn't play smoothly at all (one frame every few seconds) let alone play, and CSS does not work either.

I've used this guide: ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver#head-7e2283943de094f4c373154f2e8178bfa9374050) to verify that my 3D acceleration is working using the command "glxinfo | grep vendor" and "glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"", but when apparently on Cedega's test program, my system only passes the OpenGL test and not the 3D acceleration test. I have a feeling that something is missing in my xorg configuration file. Here it is:

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.7"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.8"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP]"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

 

Your "driver" under the "Device" section should probably be "radeon", and not "ati". Try that, and it should get things working for you, I believe. I don't have an ATI card, so this is just going off of what I understand to be the case.

 

Actually, I think the drivers for legacy ATi cards are called "ati" and not "radeon." Nothing past the 9700 or something is supported by the fglrx drivers.

 

It works! Shattered glass looks weird, but it seems to work... anyone else wanting to get Steam games on Linux, just use this guide. Thanks Pitabred.

http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/02/...ife-half-life-2-counter-strike-source-and-16/

According to the guide I linked in my first post, the "ati" driver is supposed to use the "radeon" driver automatically if a legacy card is detected. Apparently that is not the case.

 

Well, my bad. Glad you got it working.

 

After a couple more minutes of testing, there are other issues which I'll get fixed over time, namely:

- triangular artifacts flashing from the center of the screen in the event of a flashbang or explosion

- glass texture is no present; only white lines that represent the individual sections that the glass can break into

- sound sometimes doesn't work at all, or it skips, or it works fine

I wish Linux had a bit more support for these things.

 

Well, besides the sound thing, it's not really Linux's fault. I mean, the game was written in DirectX and is being translated so that your machine can run it in Linux; that's a little hard to do perfectly with a closed-source API. But sound; yeah, I've found sound in Linux to be buggy at best. Have you tried using OSS instead of ALSA?

 

Linux does support those things. It's Wine and possibly the open source Radeon drivers that don't support that. Because Linux will render everything perfectly in Doom 3, and I think that uses more features of the card than CSS or HL2 do. Try running HL2 in DX8 or 8.1 (8.1 is the default for your card, but Wine may be letting it run in 9.0 mode) compatibility mode to make up for the shortcomings of Wine's graphical call translations by using one of these commands at the command line:

Code:

DirectX 9: mat_dxlevel 90
DirectX 8.1: mat_dxlevel 81
DirectX 8.0: mat_dxlevel 80
DirectX 7.0: mat_dxlevel 70

 

I changed the DX mode for CSS and HL2 to 8.1, but I'm not sure how to do the same for Wine. There is no option for changing the DX mode in "winecfg".

 

just thought i would sneak this in there, but do these games run as quickly as on windows? or is there still a slowdown running under wine/cdega

 

I don't think there is a way to do it. But the question is, did it work? Did it fix any of the artifacting you've seen, or any of the display glitches? Does it run faster?

Yes, typically they do run as quickly as on Windows, and sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but usually within 10% if you have proper drivers and the features are implemented. OpenGL games are particularly good under Wine/Cedega.

And you aren't a better hacker than I am just because you found a site that has an nslookup hooked to a JPG rendering script that you can partially customize Besides, it really should be a png for something with such hard lines and text, it'd make it much smaller and still stay readable as compared to the jpg.

 

"I don't think there is a way to do it. But the question is, did it work? Did it fix any of the artifacting you've seen, or any of the display glitches? Does it run faster?"

I don't see the artifacts as much, although flashes cause the screen to go yellow . It runs very well (not as smooth as XP perhaps), but pretty much everything works, except the mouse isn't very smooth. In CSS, that is a problem. Another weird thing to note is that items like crates and chairs appear to be extremely bright relative to their surroundings. Still not a problem though. Thanks for the help guys.