I have an ati radeon 9000 pro and my opengl drivers are veryvery slow. I get 400fps tops in glxgears. I tried running quake 3 and it said i was on mesaGL, but i did opengl-update ati and it said it loaded the ati opengl driver. whats going on?

What does glxinfo say for Direct Rendering?

and fglrxinfo

For some reason I was not emailed about your replies.

Here is the info you requested along with proof of forcing switch to ati opengl before issuing the commands.

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Gentoo_64 ~ # opengl-update ati
* Switching to ati OpenGL interface ...
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... [ ok ]
Gentoo_64 ~ # glxgears

Gentoo_64 ~ # glxinfo
name of 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
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0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 1 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None
0x27 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x28 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 1 0 None
0x29 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None
0x2a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None



Gentoo_64 ~ # fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
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)

Gentoo_64 ~ #

"direct rendering: No" means it is not using hardware acceleration. The hw acceleration in ATI driver is broken. Unfortunately, I don't have a solution for you.
I use FC4 and use the livna drivers to get the hw acceleration to work.

May try;
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_wit...Source_Drivers
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/g...adeon-faq.html

Thanks, those links really helped! http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers especially. I followed these steps to get the driver. I ran into another problem that i solved, I will post it here in case anyone else has the problem. When running startx, the paraphrased error "fglrx: No devices found (PCI:1:0:0)"

I looked in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and in the devices sections of my ati display, i saw that it was looking for PCI:1:0:1 so i changed it to PCI:1:0:0 and now X works perfectly. glxgears is at 1250fps Rocking!

I only had opengl for one session. I think it is cause i went nuts and installed like 30 games. I think quake3 installed emul linux 32bit opengl drivers. So i reinstalled my ati drivers but i still didnt have hardware opengl. im just gonna blast the system. Start over.