Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-05 Thread Gerhard W. Gruber
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:16:11 +0100, Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: depends on distor and setup, sometimes there are standalone Mesa packages and other times it is all merged into the XF86 libGL packages as the non-optional sofware renderer fallback. I just found a posting in

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-05 Thread Alex Deucher
3D accel on r300 cards (9500 and up) is only supported by ati's binary drivers. The ABI error comes from the fact that you are using a newer driver with a old version of the XFree86 server. you need to upgrade you XFree86 binary. there is one available here:

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-05 Thread Gerhard W. Gruber
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:14:10 -0800 (PST), Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3D accel on r300 cards (9500 and up) is only supported by ati's binary drivers. Oh, well. So I wonder what I should do now. :( It's now a full week that I try to find some info on how to enable that. The ABI error

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Gerhard W. Gruber
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:49:05 -0800 (PST), Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said before: If you MB is 8x you will need to patch your 2.4 kernel with 8x support (or if you can set your BIOS to 4x only mode) or use a 2.6 kernel. once you have that done you can just use the DRI

RE: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Alexander Stohr
I always get these errormessage when I load agpgart and fglrx and then startx. The weird thing is that X starts up with this gray screen and the mouse working. It only crashes the instant when the KDE dialog should be coming up. (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (WW)

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Gerhard W. Gruber
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:57:10 +0100, Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about a totally pure and simple XFree86? this will launch an X-Server without any window manager. shut it down with CTRL-ALT-Backspace if the mouse moves. OK. Never thought of that. On the other hand my desktop

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Gerhard W. Gruber
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:57:10 +0100, Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about a totally pure and simple XFree86? this will launch an X-Server without any window manager. shut it down with CTRL-ALT-Backspace if the mouse moves. other attempt, try fvwm2, twm or GNOME window manager. it

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Alex Deucher
KDE probably crashes or locks up since it preloads libGL. it's all related to the fact that HW 3D doesn't work. perhaps you have multiple versions of libGL floating around? Alex --- Gerhard W. Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:57:10 +0100, Alexander Stohr [EMAIL

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Alex Deucher
run ldd on your glxgears or glxinfo executables and see which libGL it is using. Alex --- Gerhard W. Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:52:43 -0800 (PST), Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE probably crashes or locks up since it preloads libGL. it's all related to

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Gerhard W. Gruber
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:35:57 -0800 (PST), Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: run ldd on your glxgears or glxinfo executables and see which libGL it is using. It is using the ones from the driver. It uses libGL which points to a link which is the drvier lib. I made a diff on the file which is

RE: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Alexander Stohr
run ldd on your glxgears or glxinfo executables and see which libGL it is using. It is using the ones from the driver. It uses libGL which points to a link which is the drvier lib. I made a diff on the file which is in the driver directory and the installed libGL.so.1.2 and they are

Re: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Alex Deucher
Like I said before: If you MB is 8x you will need to patch your 2.4 kernel with 8x support (or if you can set your BIOS to 4x only mode) or use a 2.6 kernel. once you have that done you can just use the DRI snapshots. This will allow you to use 4x mode. if you want to use 8x, you will have to