To all who helped, Thank you! I'll not get to try this for some hours (I'm at work now), but I feel hopeful...
And Rich, I never complain about too much detail. Thanks again :). I wasn't aware of the xlibmesa issue. John Foster Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote: > > Thanks for replies so far.... > > > > Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI > > 1st. > > Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is > > designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable. > > > > This is completely frustrating. The machine in question is one of those > > 'E-Machines', a budget buy from CostCo. Has anyone got DRI working woith a > > Voodoo3 PCI in one? > > I've got a eMachine 466is, and yes, I've got dri working. First, to get > the v3 recognized as the primary display: In the graphical bios screen, > find pci/pnp setup. In that submenu, find initial display select. > That's where you set the pci slot as the primary video display. > > Second, make sure that you have _only_ xlibmesa from X4.1.0 installed. > You should have no other mesa packages installed. Also make sure you > have libglide3 installed. Be sure libglide2 is not installed. > > I've also cut out what I -think- are the important parts of my > XF86Config-4 file. > > Section "Module" > ... > Load "dri" > Load "glx" > ... > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Voodoo3 (generic)" > Driver "tdfx" > VendorName "Voodoo3 (generic)" > BoardName "Voodoo3 (generic)" > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > I hope this helps. Don't forget that the DefaultDepth in the section > "Screen" needs to be set to 16. > > If this is too much detail, well, maybe someone else can use it :) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
