Hi all, D S and I discovered that Mandrake 9.0 includes Gatos code in their Xserver. I think this is the reason for the problems Mandrake 9.0 users are experiencing with binary snapshots. Up to now the only solution seems to be to compile DRI yourself. A suitable custom binary snapshot (if anyone wants to make one) would probably have to replace the 2D ati drivers with clean (non-gatos) ones.
Best regards, Felix On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:20:17 -0400 Robert Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed some people saying that it's almost impossible to get DRI > Running on Mandrake 9. Well, they're right. *Almost* impossible. > > The hardware: Athlon 2000+ (1.6G). Radeon 8500 (Identified as 'ATI > Radeon 8500 QL'). Standard Mandrake .19-mdk-whatever kernel. > > DRI Does Not Work with Mandrake 9 out of the box. glxinfo will not say > Yes to direct rendering no matter what you do. > > The first issue was an inability to insert the kernel module, due to > unmet dependencies. I've had this happen before with mandrake Kernels, > so I installed a clean 2.4.19. After recompiling, I re-inserted and > started on the long and strange saga of SegV's when starting X. > > After reading some hints on the users lists, it was mentioned that GCC > 3.2 is shipped with mandrake, and for those that don't know, it's pretty > much binary-incompatible with things compiled with previous versions of GCC. > > Current State: Clean 2.4.19 kernel, gcc 3.2. > > I had to download the DRI X source, and compile and install the X > Server. The module inserted cleanly, and, X started up, to my surprise. > I was getting quite sick of having to reboot the machine 8-) > > I'm quite happy to package up a set of binaries if anyone wants them - > but, someone will need to tell me which, specific, binaries are going to > be needed 8-) > > The bug report I mentioned. In the source package, 'xf86cfg' is trying > to link to libXpm.a -- this doesn't exist in the source, nor does it > seem to exist anywhere in the Mandrake distribution (much to my > surprise). I ended up making an empty libXpm myself, and sticking it in > /usr/lib, and that seemed to work. > > (For those that want to do it themselves -- > root# touch foo.c > root# gcc -c foo.c > root# ar -r /usr/lib/libXpm.a foo.o > ) > > There are some c++ files, that try to be compiled with 'c++' - there is > no such beast (this, I think, is a mandrake-ism. There should be.) - > only g++. Mandrake users: > > ln -s /etc/alternatives/g++ /etc/alternatives/c++ > > fixes it. > > A 'make World' should then quite happily work, without any errors. A > 'make install' installs everything in the right place, -except- for the > kernel module. > > ./build/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/radeon.o > (or whatever your kernel driver should be) > > should be copied to /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel -- it doesn't matter > where you put it, depmod -a sorts it out. > > A 'startx' will then fire up X, and 'glxinfo' now reports: > > [root@linuxrob DRI]# glxinfo > name of display: :0.0 > Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 > r200CreateScreen > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: Yes > server glx vendor string: SGI > server glx version string: 1.2 > server glx extensions: > [...etc etc etc...] > > [root@linuxrob DRI]# glxgears > Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 > r200CreateScreen > 8001 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1600.200 FPS > 8123 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1624.600 FPS > 8146 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1629.200 FPS > [root@linuxrob DRI]# > > Pre DRI, it was 500 FPS. > > I am -totally- unclued on Imakefiles, so I daren't even try to submit a > patch, but hopefully the information above will be enough to get people > up and working! > > --Rob > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Dri-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-users > > __\|/__ ___ ___ ___ __Tschüß_______\_6 6_/___/__ \___/__ \___/___\___You can do anything,___ _____Felix_______\Ä/\ \_____\ \_____\ \______U___just not everything____ [EMAIL PROTECTED] >o<__/ \___/ \___/ at the same time! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
