I thought I would put an update on this thread. I finally was able to mesa patches for the r300 driver to work. I was not correctly applying the patches the last time I tried. I decided to revisit and this used the "--dry-run" option to verify they were correctly applying. Now I have 3D on my iBook G4 with falling back to 16 on my screen depth!
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. < [email protected]> wrote: > I was able now to compile and install the patched deb. I rebooted and > everything looked it was working fine. So I commented out the line that > defined the depth to 16 and rebooted. Still 3D is not working with 24 > depth. I am going to stay with how things are. I got 3D woking on 16 depth. > I hope someone comes for for a fix. Thanks all for your help. > > Herminio > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 1, 2014, at 8:34 AM, "Herminio Hernandez, Jr." < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I have applied the patch and trying to build the package again. > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Michel Dänzer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 01.12.2014 02:42, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: >> >>> Making the deb file failed. Here is my output >>> >>> cc1: out of memory allocating 1218340 bytes after a total of 57397248 >>> bytes >>> Makefile:2254: recipe for target 'format_utils.lo' failed >>> >> >> [...] >> >> I did see all of my 2G of RAM being use but not my entire 3G of swap. Is >>> my powerbook just unable to compile this? >>> >> >> Looks like it. This is a known Mesa upstream issue which should be fixed >> in the upcoming 10.4.0 release by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ >> mesa/mesa/commit/?id=cfeb394224f2daeb2139cf4ec489a4dd8297a44d. >> >> >> -- >> Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com >> Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer >> > >
