Wow! I loved being proved wrong. So do you need a kernel module for that
to work? Just agpart? Any documentation you looked at for this?
--David Bushong
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:23:13PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> Two possibilities:
> 1) You are not loading the tdfx.ko that can be built from the XFree86 source
> tree.
> 2) You are running in a resolution that your card does not support for GL.
>
> I have a Matrox G200 that works in FreeBSD for DRI.
>
> David Bushong had the audacity to say:
> > Alas, from: http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html :
> >
> > * With XFree86 4.0 and the Direct Rendering Interface (DRI), hardware
> > * accelerated 3D graphics can be considered a standard feature on Linux
> > * workstations. Support for other operating systems, such as FreeBSD, is
> > * underway.
> >
> > Each DRI driver, AFAICT, needs its own accompanying kernel module, and the
> > FreeBSD kernel modules just don't exist yet. Sigh. I'll keep running 3.3.6
> > with Utah-GLX for now...
> >
> > --David Bushong
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 02:26:52PM +0000, Thomas Koper wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to use DRI with XFree 4 and the voodoo3 agp card, but as
> > > as I start x windows I get the message that DRI is disabled:
> > > ...
> > > (II) TDFX(0): initializing int10
> > > (==) TDFX(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x20000) was already clear
> > > (II) TDFX(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> > > (II) TDFX(0): VESA Bios detected
> > > (II) TDFX(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
> > > (==) TDFX(0): Write-combining range (0xec000000,0x2000000) was already clear
> > > (==) TDFX(0): Write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x2000000)
> > > (==) TDFX(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x10000) was already clear
> > > (II) TDFX(0): Textures Memory 10.99 MB
> > > II) TDFX(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> > > Screen to screen bit blits
> > > Solid filled rectangles
> > > 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
> > > Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
> > > Solid Lines
> > > Dashed Lines
> > > Offscreen Pixmaps
> > > Driver provided NonTEGlyphRenderer replacement
> > > Setting up tile and stipple cache:
> > > 8 128x128 slots
> > > (==) TDFX(0): Backing store disabled
> > > (==) TDFX(0): Silken mouse enabled
> > > (II) TDFX(0): direct rendering disabled
> > > (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "Auto"
> > > (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
> > > (==) Mouse1: Buttons:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Why does it say "(II) TDFX(0): direct rendering disabled" ?
> > > I compiled XFree86-4 from the ports and it starts up fine, I confiured
> > > it to load the GLX and DRI modules, like it says in the installation
> > > guide. Do I have to install anything else beside this? I just started with an
> > > fresh 4.1S Box. Could someone help me to get this to work??
> > >
> > > Regards Thomas Koper
> > >
> > >
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> President,
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