I love my Debian system, but the only complaint I have is with the time it takes for the graphics to appear. I can see the background get repainted everytime I log in. I think that this might be related to the video driver not having direct rendering enabled. I am running kernel 2.6.12-1-686 from testing with the xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11.
I checked with http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ and I got the following: 10024742 Yes ATI Technologies Inc Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X ati With discover video I get: ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X I seem to have two xservers on my system (apt-cache showpkg xserver-XFree86): 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 I believe the first is the xorg and the second is the old XFree. When I run discover --xserver video, I get: XFree86 Which is the video driver I installed from dpkg-reconfigure When I run lsmod, I get: ... r128 48512 0 drm 67732 1 r128 ... I believe that r128 is the specific driver for the ATI Rage 128 chip. I checked that this driver is in the kernel (ie. modprobe -l r128) /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-686/kernel/drivers/char/drm/r128.ko When I check for openGL support (glxinfo | grep render), I get the following: direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect Why am I not getting OpenGL direct rendering? Do I have to install any other kernel modules? The only other thing I can think of is that I didn't manually set the video cards memory. I could not see this on the card itself and it was 6 years since I bought it. Is there a way to probe the video memory? Can I check that this is the same as what the xserver believes? Thanks in advance for the help, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
