At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 05:20:28 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez wrote: [...]
> OK. I'm hoping that someone can help me out here. This > morning I downloaded the new Knoppix CD that came out on > Friday. I burned it and used it to boot my machine, and to my > surprise it recognized the nForce2 AGPGART and even > successfully loaded the DRI drivers. Not only that, but the > frame rate in glxgears was like 2500 fps, versus 1925 that I > get with the new closed-source ATI driver. So I set about > duplicating Knoppix's setup, but nothing worked. > > I added this line to sources.list: > > deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./ I used to download my source from that site, when Daniel-san. first took it upon himself to create XFree86 4.3 for the terminally impatient. Now my 4.3 packages come from: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/ I don't know how unofficial that is. But there are near nightly builds of the debian diff's to the X sources. So somebody must be maintaining them. To be sure, I take the trouble of compiling from the source. > Which got me the same exact XFree86 that Knoppix uses (I had > built my own packages from the sources and patches on the > X-Strike Force page) back on July 22. I also downloaded the > latest Radeon tarball from dri.sourceforge.net. Nothing I did > got DRI working with the open source drivers. I also tried the > xlibmesa4-drm-source package, but that did not help either. [...] Did you try "lsmod" on both machines? Did you make sure the binary stuff was totally purged from your system? I ran into some problem when I replaced my NVidia with the Radeon. The binary drivers at that time wouldn't surrender without a fight (something to do with "diversions" IRC). Also I get my opensource radeon DRI drivers from a Debian maintainer's unofficial "site": http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ The first URL is for xfree86 4.2, the other for xfree86 4.3. I had to eliminate the kernel options that would compile the kernel's native radeon drivers (which would would be replaced by dri-trunk's own kernel modules). To be sure I'm running Daenzer's unofficial debs on top of the official sid X 4.2. The debs allow me to play Chromium and GLTron with decent explosions. Since the Radeon VE doesn't have TCL (whatever that means) I get worse fps (100 fps) when running glxgears under DRI than when running it under plain X (200 fps). I think Chromium is a better test for 3D acceleration because it allows you to waste your time in a more entertaining manner. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
