On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:09 pm, Taylor Pullen wrote:
> has anyone gotten xfree 4.3.0 to work properly with opengl and
> a radeon card? Alright here is my situation. I installed
> vector linux 3.2 which had 4.2.1 on it. By way of dropline
> gnome I upgraded to xfree 4.3.0. I didn't change anything in
> my config file but for some reason opengl won't work with
> direct rendering. glxgears gives an output of 100fps so I am
> assuming it is software rendering. It also complains "libGL
> error: InitDriver failed"

 <snip>

> (WW) RADEON(0): [dri] Some DRI features disabled
> because of version mismatch.
> [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but 1.3.1 or
> later is preferred.

   ^^^--- This is probably your problem.

You generally need to update to the DRM modules from the XFree86 
source whenever you update XFree86.  With a few cards, you might 
get away with using the kernel's outdated DRM code, but most 
likely you'll get problems exactly like what you're having.

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"

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