Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI
On Tue, 18 May 2004 22:16:43 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got Mahjongg 3D working. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what I did to get it working. I downloaded the 0.92 release from the author's web site (I Do you have a link? I figured it might be on sourceforge, so I checked, and sure enough, it's there, but I could not get the CVS to work, because I could not determine any module names to check out, and the directions just say to co modulename. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI
On May 11, 2004 10:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553PHPSESSID=23d79a4e78002 9a6433767155a41f066) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhd]$ /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires: line 8: 23090 Illegal instruction ./mahjongg3d ... I got Mahjongg 3D working. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what I did to get it working. I downloaded the 0.92 release from the author's web site (I had the 0.90 release from KDE-Apps) and built as a regular user instead of root (there's a permissions problem in the install script. But I also made several upgrades in the interim (Mdk10 installs ancient versions of autoconf, automake, etc. by default, and another program wouldn't build until I upgraded). My ancient graphics card does support 3D, via the Mesa 3D glx package. It just doesn't support DRI (or more specifically, doesn't have a driver available for it that supports DRI). Turns out the DRI missing msg is just a warning, it has nothing to do with the actual problem (the illegal instruction). I get it with any OpenGL program I start from the command line (e.g. glxgears), but the program runs fine anyway, just not accelerated. I'd like to know how to get rid of this message if possible (before you ask, no, my X86Config-4 does not have a 'load dri' line in it). It's harmless but annoying. Any ideas welcome, but it's not a priority. BTW, it's a great game if you like solitaire games. Check it out. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI
On May 11, 2004 15:54, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:33, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Unless I'm completely misreading your post, can't you just download the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site and install those? No, he can't because it isn't actually a nvidia product...it's *,Thompson IIRC and just uses their (nvidia) chips. It works fine using the nv driver and 2D..and that's it! No 3D etc. Good luck, HarM Yeah, MCC hardware detection lists the vendor as NVidia / SGS Thomson. XF86Config-4 says I'm using the nv driver. This is what Mandrake install set up, I haven't tried any different drivers. I saw another email about someone whose card didn't work with the nv driver, and someone recommended the nvidia driver instead. But it seems that my card is too ancient to be supported by their unified driver architecture. I didn't see anything suggesting that the nvidia driver supports DRI either. So I guess I'm out of luck? -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI
On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Unless I'm completely misreading your post, can't you just download the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site and install those? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 17:32:25 up 5 days, 3:59, 8 users, load average: 0.17, 0.20, 0.10 +++ They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within; I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them, first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin... -- Leonard Cohen, 'First We Take Manhattan' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:33, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Unless I'm completely misreading your post, can't you just download the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site and install those? No, he can't because it isn't actually a nvidia product...it's *,Thompson IIRC and just uses their (nvidia) chips. It works fine using the nv driver and 2D..and that's it! No 3D etc. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XFree86-DRI
I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553PHPSESSID=23d79a4e780029a6433767155a41f066) As root, I downloaded and extracted the tarball (mahjongg3d.tar.bz2). Then I did: make PREFIX=/opt/games make PREFIX=/opt/games install The build produced a number of harmless looking warnings (unused parameters and such), but seems to have run successfully. The install appears to have been successful as well. But when I run the game, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhd]$ /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires: line 8: 23090 Illegal instruction ./mahjongg3d I had no idea what XFree86-DRI was so I started investigating. There was a previous email on this list with the same error, but for a completely different video card, and the links provided didn't seem to help me at all. I have an nVidia Riva128. I found the sourceforge site for DRI, but it says that nVidia cards are not supported because the drivers are all closed source (http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/nVidia?action=highlightvalue=CategoryHardware). Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Funny thing is the game README makes no mention of DRI being required. It only says that OpenGL and qt-devel are required. This is certainly not a show-stopper for me, but if anyone can provide any pointers (short of writing my own driver :^), I'd appreciate it. It's funny, I read criticisms of Linux and FOSS that a mostly volunteer effort can never keep up with the innovations of a well funded corporation. Yet it seems to me that the biggest problem is the rapid turn-over in technologies that makes it so hard to keep up! I see the OSS to ALSA migration, the 2.4 to 2.6 kernel issues, this DRI graphics technology, and so on. Everything seems to be in a constant state of transition. Oh well, keeps it interesting! -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
