3d desktop no direct rendering

I cant seem to get 3d desktop working on my system. Can anyone help?? Maybe i haven't installed the proper drivers for my graphics card?? If so how do i do this? I'd really appreciate any help with this one.

Here is my glxinfo

name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on 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_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer 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_SGI_video_sync, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture GLX version: 1.2 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 6.5.1) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 0x3c 32 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

and my class display

*-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: ATI Technologies Inc vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0 bus info: pci@01:00.0 version: 00 size: 256MB width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=fglrx_pci resources: iomemory:c0000000-cfffffff iomemory:dfde0000-dfdeffff ioport:dc00-dcff irq:169 *-display:1 UNCLAIMED description: Display controller product: ATI Technologies Inc vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0.1 bus info: pci@01:00.1 version: 00 size: 64KB width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list resources: iomemory:dfdf0000-dfdfffff

What driver are you using for your video card? Many ATI cards do not have a properly supported driver.

i don't know what driver i'm using for my graphics card,.. how do i find out??

I was talking to some people here that were saying that the drivers for this particular card (ati) are not properly developed yet, so i guess ill just have to wait for software updates to fix the problem.

I checked the ati website and they don't have any drivers that support ubuntu edgy operating system.

I'm also having a similar problem. I can't seem to get the 3d effects needed for beryl working on ubuntu 6.10

When I first installed, metacity wasn't installed correctly, so I had to reinstall that package because things like keyboard shortcuts, holding down keys until they repeated, etc didn't work.

The ubuntu desktop still isn't displaying 100% correctly for some reason but I think I'll live with it since I wanted to install beryl.

I was following the guide [HTML]<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/hardware.html">here</a>[/HTML] and when I was told to restart xorg I did and then it wouldn't restart.

I've been messing around with getting 6.10 working properly for several days now and am getting very frustrated and tired. Any help from anybody would be really helpful.

Thanks.

I have the same type of problem, no direct rendering whatsoever. Even when I countlessly reformat and freshly reinstall Ubuntu, the same problem shows up. *This never happened before by the way*

Fglrx does not work, and besides Fglrx, for me, makes Beryl obsolete. I need to stick with ALGLX. I've tweaked the X11/xorg.conf file but didn't work.

It would be nice if someone would relieve our pain, you can't do anything cool without direct rendering. and it sucks without it. no kiba-dock...no beryl...