On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Nathan Conrad wrote: > > > I have a Macintosh G4 (AGP) with a rage 128 pro card. I've tried to > > 'apt-get install xlibmesa3', but after doing this, my computer freezes > > when attempting to run a OpenGL program. For example, when I open > > glxgears, A black window pops up and the system stops responding to > > Yes, I have seen this. Try using 16bpp depth instead of 24/32bpp - Rage128 > still doesn't seem to like to do 3D stuff in 24bpp, or at least not on > Linux. This helped it. It doesn't crash now (Although it did immediatly after restarting XFree86). glxgears runs about 5 times faster (about 250 fps). Thank you for the tip. > > > keyboard or mouse input. The unaccelerated mesag3 works perfectly, but > > slowly. I am using a very recent benh kernel. XFree86 4.1 claims that DRM > > is enabled for the card. It should be noted that I also have a voodoo3 in > > my computer, which does not work. It too crashes the computer when I try > > to 'insmod tdfxfb'. The glxinfo spits out the following: > > The tdfxfb may be broken for big-endian, I don't know. Or it may just be > because you have 2 vidcards. It freezes after spitting out a debug message about the hwcursor. Must I pass it some arguments when loading it (such as which depth to use?). If so, How do I do this with depmod? > > Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
