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[yanom]

When i start the client on 64bit Ubuntu Linux the graphics and mouse movement are all sluggish. How do I fix this?

[Caarrie]

do you have direct rendering enabled?

[yanom]

what is 'direct rendering?'

[Aiwendil]

Open up a shell (Konsole/Terminal) and type "glxinfo | grep rendering". Then you should see something like "direct rendering: Yes". If there is a "No", try to install some other drivers for your graphic card (depending on your hardware the drivers from Nvidia or ATI, should be in the Ubuntu package manager I think)

[yanom]

I'm pretty sure i have all of the drivers... by the way i installed some openGL packages now the mouse isn't all sluggish but the screen is flashing and blinking... it goes black and then i see it and then black again... It cycles about 10 times a second.

[Vonor]

What graphics card do you have?
Have you had a look at ubuntus propritary driver tool? it's under System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers (If I remember correctly)

You haven't answered yet to the question if direct rendering is enabled, please run "glxinfo | grep rendering" in a terminal to see if it's enabled or disabled.

[yanom]

ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series graphics card
all drivers are enabled, but they are all opensource (all of the drivers for my card are open source)

[yanom]

Code: [Select]

yanom@yanom-desktop:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
yanom@yanom-desktop:~$


[Vonor]

Try the propritary drivers, afaik they are called fglrx or somesuch

[yanom]

fglrx is installed (it's actually opensource, not proprietary)

[yanom]

after cleaning up the fallout from a disaster when i tried to install some ATI drivers, driect rendering is off. Why is this?

[yanom]

Never mind. I found the right driver, and it works perfectly! Thanks for all of your help.