On 7 Sep 2001, Mike wrote: >Hmm.. >You might be better off with X 4.0.3 because I have a Voodoo 3 >2000 and I recently tried X 4.1.0, because I had installed a >2.4 kernel, and the DRI dropped to half speed and the server >would die every hour or so. So I restored the 4.0.3 and used >the kernel module from 4.1.0 and the DRI was back to normal >again and no more sig 11's. I also run my DRI at 1280 x 1024 so >this just seems to be limited by your processor speed. At >200Mhz 800 x 600 is probably the best you can do. DRI works on Voodoo 3 with XFree86 4.1.0 just fine. The trick is making absolutely sure that you are using the proper DRM kernel modules for 4.1.0, using Glide3 from May or later, using appropriate libGL, and making sure it is in a supported useable resolution and bit depth. On a 16mb Voodoo card, using any resolution >= 1024x768 is leaving very little RAM for DRI to use, and from experience debugging bug reports, high res + DRI == boom. My personal recommendation for anyone trying DRI on any video hardware at all, is to first start off with "I want to just see it work" - think minimal. Then once working, go nuts with resolution/depth/whizbang. I recommend doing all initial DRI testing in 640x480 in 16 bit depth on all video hardware. Once that *works*, you know your libs, etc. are all set up. Then you can try 24depth (on supported hardware of which Voodoo3 is not), or max out resolution, etc.. This method has proven very useful and reliable for getting DRI working on various hardware during my XFree86 testing, debugging, etc.. Hope it helps others as well. TTYL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: #redhat-xfree86 on irc.openprojects.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
