No direct rendering with Catalyst 10.12 on Maverick (Radeon HD 4200)

[nicolas1970]

Hello,

I installed fglrx according to ATI doc on Maverick distrib. Graphic Card is a Radeon HD 4200 embedded on the GA-MA785-UDH3 MOBO. Everything runs fine (Compiz, fgl_glxgears at 750FPS). However: glxinfo returns "direct rendering: no". Debugging info:

libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/fglrx/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/fglrx/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/fglrx/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/fglrx/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib32/fglrx/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib32/fglrx/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib32/fglrx/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib32/fglrx/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: reverting to indirect rendering

Tested all I founded over the net.

Any ideas ?

Best,

Nicolas

[indus]

Hi Nicolas

Just install the driver from this ppa which has the latest catalyst drivers for your distribution.Its just around 40 Mb compared to the one from the site which is a monstrous 100 mb and also provides a proper way of installing any software on your system.

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

In case it doesnt work after installation , type in a terminal

sudo aticonfig --f

And it should be working fine.