On Sun April 11 2004 17:59, Jesse Kline wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Regarding my previous thread onimproving video performance in Slackware,
> I've been playing around with it a bit and I'm not quite sure how to get it
> working. I've been trying to use the dri drivers with XFree86 4.3.
> Everything I read just says to the the lines:
> Load "glx"
> Load "dri"
Should look like:
Section "Module"
...
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
Load "dri"
EndSection
> into the modules section of the /etc/XF86Config file. I've done this, and
> the log shows dri being loaded, but glxinfo says that there is no 3D
> acceleration. I'm still using the vesa driver in the device section, but
> I'm not sure what to change that too.
You'll probably want the r128 driver.
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "r128"
...
EndSection
Also, this can be helpful if you have permissions problems (regular user can't
use accelerated features):
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
> I also have the freedesktop.org X server on that machine, and I'm not sure
> if that would give me better performance than XFree86, but I cannot find
> any instructions on how to use the fdo X server instead of XFree.
If you mean the XOrg X server (hosted on freedesktop.org, but different than
the fdo X server -- X11R7), then there's really no difference at this point
(especially to Slackware, since Patrick Volkerding has said he is not phased
by the XFree86 licensing changes?!). I can't speak to the fdo X server,
though.
HTH,
Curtis
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