> On Thu April 15 2004 13:54, Jesse Kline wrote: > > Quoting Curtis Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed April 14 2004 17:14, Jesse Kline wrote: > > > > I've got the Load "glx" and Load "dri" lines as well as the Mode 0666 > > <snip> > > > and it works. I'll try it with the r128 driver as well. The thing that I > > wasn't sure about was glxinfo shows: > > direct rendering: No > > does this even matter? > > I actually don't know. �Here's what I get: > > $ glxinfo | grep direct > direct rendering: Yes > > and that's using NVIDIA card/drivers. �I guess some research is in order.
I have some questions, Jesse: 1) What distro? 2) What kernel? b) lsmod | grep gart -- anything? 3) ls -l /usr/lib/libGL* -- where do the symlinks point? 4) glxgears -- what FPS? There's actually a lot of stuff involved in ensuring 3D acceleration under Linux. First, ensure an AGP GART is loaded. Usually, this is compiled as a module into the kernel (but some drivers provide their own GART, such as NVIDIA). So 'lsmod | grep gart' should tell you if you have one loaded. Next, you need an OpenGL implementation. Usually this is Mesa (http://www.mesa3d.org/) unless you use manufacturer-provided drivers, like NVIDIA. Search your package manager for Mesa to see if it's already installed (i.e. ls /var/log/packages | grep mesa or rpm -q mesa, etc.). Then you need to confirm that the dri.sourceforge.net-provided ATI drivers are installed. Since they are installed via a script, probably the easiest thing to do is just download and re-run the script (unless, of course, you have a binary package already installed -- query your package manager). Here's the latest snapshot: http://www.freedesktop.org/~dri/snapshots/rage128-20040416-linux.i386.tar.bz2 After that, you need to configure your XF86Config file, which you've already done. So you should be seeing some half-decent numbers when you run 'glxgears' (I would guess at least 300 FPS). ATI Rage 128 Mobility chipsets have an MPEG acceleration chip (different from 3D acceleration), but I don't know if there is support for it yet under Linux. You might want to check http://gatos.sourceforge.net/. HTH, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
