cheers for the tips. I reconfigured xfree and chose the fbdev xserver driver. I still only got 150 ish fps from glxgears. glxinfo says
...snip... direct rendering: No ...snip... I have read that i need this to be enabled for acceleration to take place. How can i enable it? I tried choosing the r128 driver from the dpkg xserver menu instead of fbdev but x fails to start (i believe it said 'cannot read V_BIOS') Am now trying to recompile the kernel with the r128 drm module and agpart enabled. cheers matthew On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:43:24 -0500 Shawn Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ahh -- there are more detailed messages about what I had to do to get > opengl working on my ibook (with a rage128) but basically, I had to set > my colors to 16bit rather than 24 bit... that was the deciding factor. > If you have a rage128 you DON'T need dri-trunk or anything like that, > and honestly, that whole bit confused me as well. > > you can just run dpkg-reconfigure xfree86 (that's not the actual > package name, i don't remember off-hand, and I'm stuck on a windows > machine right now) It'll ask you a bunch of stuff, you want 16bit > color, and you DO want it to add the DRI part. after that, restart > xwindows and run glxinfo, it should say direct hardware rendering = yes. > Also, you can run glxgears, and those puppies should be spinning like > mad (300 fps or so) > > Good luck, if you can't figure it out -- I'll be happy to help more. It > took me a long time to get it, hopefully my struggles will help you. :) > (The big key was the 16 bit color) > > -Shawn > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
