Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-29 Thread Peter Plessas
Thanks Rick, that definitely cleared all my doubts! cheers, Peter Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 27, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Peter Plessas wrote: although i am not sure where the difference between 16bit and 24bit is in everyday use (sounds stupid but i don't see any difference). 24-bit depth prov

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 27, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Peter Plessas wrote: although i am not sure where the difference between 16bit and 24bit is in everyday use (sounds stupid but i don't see any difference). 24-bit depth provides 8 bits per color (red, green and blue) per pixel -- for a total of 256 x 256 x 256

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-27 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi all! Thanks very much for your help with this issue. As suggested by Micel Daenzer, switching to a color depth of 16 helped, DRI is enabled, my opengl apps running fine again. So there must be something (i guess inside xorg) that makes it want more memory as Ben already expected. Benjam

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: > > (WW) R128(0): Static buffer allocation failed -- need at least 9216 kB > video memory If you're using depth 24 (why do we have to guess?), try 16 instead. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Li

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
hassle ati for specs.! ;) Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:53 -0700, Carlos Sosa wrote: I will gladly help testing your drivers on my ibook2.2 ibook2.2 700mhz G3 256ram Airport Oldschool Dual USB(i think its 1.1) Firewire DVD/CD-RW combo. i apologize about my bad

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:53 -0700, Carlos Sosa wrote: > I will gladly help testing your drivers on my ibook2.2 > > ibook2.2 > 700mhz G3 > 256ram > Airport Oldschool > Dual USB(i think its 1.1) > Firewire > DVD/CD-RW combo. > > i apologize about my bad english, i am Mexican. As I said, I do _NOT_

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Carlos Sosa
I will gladly help testing your drivers on my ibook2.2 ibook2.2 700mhz G3 256ram Airport Oldschool Dual USB(i think its 1.1) Firewire DVD/CD-RW combo. i apologize about my bad english, i am Mexican. El jue, 27-10-2005 a las 15:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: > > > id go the ibook ov

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> id go the ibook over the pismo, mine has a cd/dvd combo (no burning > though as far as i can tell). although its not powerfull enough > to play a dvd. ben is working on ati drivers arent you ben? > Yah, well, I definitely don't have time to try to reverse engineer that decoder thing myself.

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
i have a ibook dual usb g3 500 10gig hdd airport (classic or whatever. orinoco on a fancy bus) dual usb (1.1) single firewire 10/100 ethernet 56kmodem (that only half works... but modem? who cares) r128 chip also - works fine though. 1024x768 ive also fully upgraded the ram to 643744kb (lol, /pro

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 01:04 -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 27 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I need to dig out my venerable Pismo and have a look... > > Are the Pismo's this good that you all mention it with high praises? I > would like to know, since I'd love to substitute a failin

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I need to dig out my venerable Pismo and have a look... Are the Pismo's this good that you all mention it with high praises? I would like to know, since I'd love to substitute a failing x86 notebook and I'm short of cash... Thanks, Rogério Brito.

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ less Xorg.0.log > > > (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space! > > > (WW) R128(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space! > > > (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not found! > > > (WW) R128(0): Static buffer allocation failed -- need at least 9216

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:22:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: > > Hi, dear fellows, > > > > Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. > > > > Full files are here: > > mona.mur.at/peter/xorg.conf > > mona.mur.at/pet

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: > Hi, dear fellows, > > Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. > > Full files are here: > mona.mur.at/peter/xorg.conf > mona.mur.at/peter/Xorg.0.log > > Here are the interesting parts of the Xorg.0.log: > > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Rainer Gutkas
Hi! I don't know if it helps, but I'm running Ubuntu-Breezy on my Pismo and XORG works just fine, so I atteched my xorg.conf file. But I sure hope that this is some help for you. Best regards, Rainer Peter Plessas schrieb: Hi, dear fellows, Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on m

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:47:53PM +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: > Hi, dear fellows, > > Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. What Xorg version, self compiled or debian package, and maybe you should ask on debian-x too ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi, dear fellows, Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. Full files are here: mona.mur.at/peter/xorg.conf mona.mur.at/peter/Xorg.0.log Here are the interesting parts of the Xorg.0.log: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ less Xorg.0.log (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI s