[Savage40] What am I missing?

[Alex Deucher]

--- Ole Craig <olc at cs.umass.edu> wrote:

> 
> 	I've been trying to get accelerated GL on my IBM thinkpad t22
> (86C270-294 savage IX/MX rev 13) and dri claims to be working but
> glxinfo doesn't give me a "yes" for Direct Rendering, and tuxracer is
> obviously running in software mode. Details follow...
> 
> 	I'm running gentoo, with a recent kernel (2.6.9-gentoo r2) and
> up-to-date x11 sources for ~x86. I installed recent snapshots
> (20041102) of the dri.sf.net common and savage tarballs overtop my X
> installation, and now when I start up with a resolution of
> 1280x1024 at 16 or less I get a bunch of stuff in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (see below) that seems to indicate succesful DRI initialization.
> xdriinfo reports: "Screen 0: savage" but as noted above, 3d apps and
> glxinfo
> disagree: 
> 
> olc at ook ~ $ glxinfo 
>  name of display: :0.0
>  display: :0  screen: 0
>  direct rendering: No
>  server glx vendor string: SGI
>  server glx version string: 1.2
> [...]
>  OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
>  OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
>  OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1)
> [...]
> 
> 	Anyone have a suggestion as to where I should be looking for
> discrepancies? 
> 
> 	Here're the interesting bits in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>  
<snip>
>  (II) SAVAGE(0): Direct rendering enabled
> [...]
> 

This is probably a lib problem of some kind.  make sure you don't have
an old libGL floating around.  Also sometimes there are problems with
libexpat.  run glxinfo with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose set.  See this page for
more info:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DriTroubleshooting

Alex

> 	Thanks,
> 		Ole
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