Jos� Fonseca wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 outdated when compared with the last generation chips, are still fairly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...


Of course, you should be able to run software glx.  That might require a
newer version of X than 4.0.3 though, or you could install Mesa
standalone.


-- 
Kevin
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