Ainsi parlait OS : > Thanks for all the replies. > > Warning, warning Will Robinson - danger of brain overload !!! > > Okay, here we go ! I've tried the following on an ATI Rage 128 RL and a > Rage Mobility Pro chipset. > > Both chipsets use the "ati" X driver. I always used "r128" as driver, not "ati", and it worked fine. DRI documentation and XFree differs on this point. Maybe they are just alias.
> I noticed that the agpgart kernel module wasn't loaded, nor was the r128 or > mtrr. > > I modprobed agpgart and it duly appeared with a useage counter of 0. I then > modprobed r128. It too showed a useage count of 0, but the agpgart useage > count had gone up to 1. I had to add the final alias in modules.conf to have agpgart loaded: alias char-major-226 agpgart > I couldn't find a module called mtrr, perhaps Mandrake doesn't ship with > that module ? > > The XFree86 log file indicates that XF doesn't baulk at any of the modules > it loads. It happily loads dri, drm, glx etc.. But no where does it say > "dri enabled". Anyway, it's attached. > > Undetered I started X. But glxinfo also reported that direct rendering > wasn't enabled. lsmod reported that the r128 useage count was still 0. Is this a problem ? I got this too. Actually, my own case isn't very much useful, as i've got big problems with this driver, but it used to work fine for me. -- Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
