On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 00:54, Crispin Boylan wrote: > Jeff Shultz wrote: > > >Just in time for my Christmas (or possibly the 9.2 final release?), ATI > >has released new official XFree86 drivers for it's video cards. The > >version number indicates that they are a minor update of the ones from > >the German site. > > > >A couple of possible problems: there is an OpenGL library included that > >conflicts with one from the XFree86 install on my installation. > > > > > i think this is because XFree86 ships with a built in Mesa 4.0.4 for > some reason - is there some way to have this separate? Or for XFree86 > to use the external Mesa? it seems a bit messy to have both in the > distribution - particularly as XFree86 contains gl.h and glext.h headers > which are very old and cause compile problems on some GL apps (I've had > problems with stuff like glaxium until I updated the headers to those > from SGI and Mesa 5.0.2) I know that the built in Mesa is probably > needed for some drivers or such like but it seems particularly clumsy, > although obviously this IS XFree86 we're talking about ;) > Hmmm. Lovely.
> > > >Apparently to enable 3D support some mods need to be made involving > >kernel headers.... this sounds annoyingly like the nVidia stuff that I > >was trying to avoid. I haven't gotten that stuff to install off the > >CD-ROMs yet. > > > I've had no trouble using 3D support with them without the need for > recompile. The only thing I've found is that there could be a bug with > using it with 2.6.xxxx and an athlon xp as it tries to enable some > advanced speculative caching (easily fixed by modifying 1 function in > the source) which causes XFree86 to not load....however on 2.4xx its fine. I ran dmesg and the following message shows up a lot: [fglrx] module unloaded - fglrx 3.2.5 [Aug 6 2003] on minor 0 [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes. And a couple times I've found: [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 4237 using kernel context 0 What all that means (other than it isn't working), I don't know. ps -aux doesn't show a process ID 4237.
