I'd do a fresh install of latest drivers if I were you. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 5:11 PM
Subject: [newbie] 7.1 voodoo 3 xf 4
> Hiya there,
> HAve installed 7.1 on a fresh athlon 650 asus k7v 128 mem voodoo 3
> 3000 AGP.
> I am having difficulties in getting the voodoo to run with hardware
> acceleration. Runs with the generic voodoo driver fine :)
> Have been following th DRI doc on dri.sourceforge.net. However i
> have found that the vanilla install of 7.1 whilst it does have xf 4,
> does not seem to have the required mesa 3.3 libraries.
> The x server logs are all aok - i can see the required glx and dri
> drivers loading and 3dfx - also can see vgahw loading - the only problem
>
> is that Direct Rendering is disabled in the log.
> This occurs at 2 points :
>
> after
> setting up tile stipple and cache
> tdfx (0) backing store enabled
> tdfx (0) silken mouse enabled
> tdfx (0) Direct Rendering Disabled
>
> and then a few more lines down also - it boots into x fine.
>
> If i then do a glinfo ( the dri doc says glxinfo but i guess that's cos
> it refers to mesa 3.3 ) and
> glx
> sgi-glx
> xfree86-dri
>
> have all loaded.
>
> I then pop a xdpyinfo to check that all visuals are 16 bit - yes.
>
> So my diagnosis would be that i need mesa 3.3 ?
>
> Suggested further steps to get hardware accel working would be muchly
> appreciated...
>
>
>
>
> --
> Bye 4 now ..
> Steve
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone : 3356 9671
>
>
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