On Mon, 28 May 2001, Charles Lewis wrote:
>
> I've tried and tried, but I can't get DRI to work for my Rage128 AGP card.
>
> My kernel (2.4.4) has been enabled with:
> /dev/agpart
> VIA chipset support (I have Abit KT7A-Raid, KT133 chipset)
> Direct Rendering Manager
> ATI Rage 128
>
> The relevant portions of XF86Config-4:
> Section "Module"
> Load "GLcore"
> Load "dri"
> Section "Device"
> Driver "ati"
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
>
> Snippets from the log (a few warnings but no errors):
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
> (II) Module dri: vendor="The Xfree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0
> ABI class: Xfree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
> (II) Loading extension Xfree86-DRI
> ...
> (II) R128(0): Using Xfree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> ...
> (II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled
> ...
> (II) R128(0): Direct rendering disabled
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
I'm struggling with the same thing - try
Section "Device"
Driver "r128"
instead - X 4.0.x is supposed to use this driver for the Rage cards. That is
how I have it set up, and it loads DRI, although I still don't get very much
aceleration out of the card.
Good luck,
Steve
