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 outdated when compared with the last generation chips, are still fairly 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 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
