I have stepmania alpha 10 and Mandrake 9.2. Stepmania is running at 5 FPS or somewhere around there. what can i do solve this problem? thanks



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Hi wirercx!!!

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org. We will need, much, much more informations then the ones you are giving us. Here are some examples:

Processor model and speed.
Graphics card and the drivers you are using (the default ones or the official ones from the manufacture?).
Amount of RAM

Not necessary, but handy are:
Desktop manager (Gnome, KDE, blackbox). If you use a heavy desktop with a slow machine == slower frame rates.

That would help us a lot.
Regards!

ok. ummmm....

Dell Inspiron 5000
Intel P3 1.5GHz
ATI Rage Mobility
128MB RAM
and KDE

there's the specs!
please try to help me out

did you download and install the official ATI drivers?

Cool, thanks mate!. Well, you have a nice computer, so the reason for the slow down are the generic drivers for your graphics card. The drivers provided by Mandrake won't give you 3D acceleration. Unfortunately, I've a nvidia card, so I cannot help you out all the way. I know though, that ATI provides drivers for Linux. Check out their page (somewhere here: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html), read their install doc and see if you can get through the installation. If not, post your problems here. Most likely somebody with an ATI driver will help you.

Good luck mate!

Hey Lava You are always one step before me..gheh

the dell inspirons are laptops so the ATI website does not provide drivers for the rage mobility...

hmmmmm. If it was not so late for me, I'd go hunting the drivers on the net. Well, so far, it looks like the ones who should provide the drivers are the manufactures, in your case, Dell. Here is some links from ATI:

http://ati.com/buy/onboard/mobile/index.html

I've just checked and dell apparently do not provide Linux drivers either. I've playing a little with google after Dell Inspiron 5000 and Linux.. nothing. Except another guy with similar machine and problems as yours:

http://website.lineone.net/~daniel.jaeggi/laptop.html

Well, let's hope somebody here knows what to do with ATI's . I suppose no drivers for an ordinary ATI would work with a mobile, would it?

No they will not work with the mobile

The ATI drivers I received make my games run in 5fps, rather than the cruddy 15 they had originally... yay for official drivers!

Is that a good thing?

no, its a 10 fps decrease, unless im reading it wrong. if you have money to spare, you should try the XiG drivers if you have an ATI card.

where do i get the xig drivers?

www.xigraphics.com, mind you that this is a COTS (Comercial-Off-The-Shelf) product, which price is rather high, and is basically a substitution of the whole X Window environment. Check their page for more info.

ok thanks