Hello! Blah! I have recompiled XFree - the same problem with glxinfo and glxgears! However, `glxinfo -i` works and shows that there is no direct rendering.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:14:51AM +0300, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: > Hello! > > I have got new PC with ATI Radeon 9100 and Gigabyte's MB based on > KT400A. I'd like to get hardware opengl. The very first thing, I have > tried is using agpgart and xfree-drm on 2.4 kernel. After some time > fscking with it and googling, I have found that agpgart in 2.4 doesn't > support version 3 of AGP (or something like this), and it's impossible > to tell KT400A to not use this AGP3 with my videocard, and only solution > is to use 2.6 kernel. OK. I have emerged developemt-sources (test6 at > the moment), compiled them and booted into without any problems. The > first problem, I have noticed that there is no DMA (and `hdparm /dev/hda > -d 1` can't set it). Blah. OK. Maybe I have missed something when > configured kernel, but this is not so important at the moment. Then I > have tried `modprobe agpgart` and it was successfull - my radeon was > detected correctly. After this I have started `emerge xfree-drm` and it > simply failed (it supports nothing but 2.4 and patch for 2.5 is > commented in the ebuild and missing in xfree-drm/files). OK. No problem. > I made `make menuconfig` again and enabled DRM provided with kernel. > After recompiling and rebooting I have inserted all necessary modules > and `startx`. OK. X was started without problems. Superb! I started > `glxinfo` and simply got segfault (and the same with `glxgears`). > > I'm wondering if DRM from kernel is suitable for my XFree version (4.3)? > Or it's possible to get xfree-drm for 2.6 somewhere? Or I need to boot > 2.6 and recompile X (`X -version` shows "Build Operating System: Linux > 2.4.19-4GB i686 [ELF]")? Or something else? I'm here, waiting for > suggestions :) > > PS. Sorry for such looooooong story and my "not perfect" english. > > Best regards, > Andrew. > Best regards, Andrew. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
