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 >
To get Direct rendering enabled i had to install a new r128 driver and a new XFree86 binary. You get these from the rage128 and Extras files at: ftp://dri.sourceforge.net/pub/dri/release Both these tar balls unpack into a directory called dripkg. Then just follow the install. Also , in XF86Config-4 change driver 'ati' to 'r128' Then startx and you should get 'Direct rendering enabled'. Once you get that far , if you have the latest KDE installed you can enjoy the beauty of anti-aliased fonts. Once you see them you won't go back to ugly fonts.
