On 2002.06.10 14:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to get OpenGL to work on my S3 Savage 3D card. So far I
> haven't
> had any luck.
> In my XF86Config-4 file I have tried adding Load   "glx"   and then tried
> Load "GLcore"
> After which I try to run glxgears and it doesn't work. After I do the
> load
> glx it won't even let me into X since it can't load glx.
> I am running Mandrake 8.1 and I believe it's XFree86 4.0.3 (I think)
> It is using the 'savage' drivers. Should I be able to do this? What am I
> missing?
> 

Note that S3 Savage 3D has no DRI support. The only option for those chips 
so far is Utah-GLX (http://utah-glx.sf.net) which until very recently just 
supported XFree86 3.3.0, but has now added some support for XFree86 4.x 
for some cards only.

There several people interested in supporting the Savage chips in the DRI 
project. I am one of them, as I own a Savage 4 myself. Besides the lack of 
time so far the biggest difficulty has been getting the chip 
specifications. I've been trying for a couple of months with several 
degress of insucess... Nevertheless I still hope that something can be 
made: the Savage chips, just as the Mach64, spite of being somewhat 
outdated when compared with the last generation chips, are still fairly 
common in laptops where there is no upgrade path. For the Savage 3D chips 
things are a little more brigther as code is already available on 
Utah-GLX, so it's basically a matter of porting. Let's see how things 
evolve...

I hope this helps.

Jos� Fonseca
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