[Savage40] direct rendering: no

[Alex Deucher]

--- "emanuele ..:: www.rumoridifondo.com ::.."
<emanuele at rumoridifondo.com> wrote:

> hi folks,
> it's the first time i write in this mailing list. i have a video card
> 
> "s3 savage 4" agp with 32mb of ram and i use mandriva linux 2006.0
> 
> i use the kernel 2.6.12-12mdk (the default kernel, not recompiled)
> and i 
> have installed xorg 6.9-1 & mesa 5.0.2-11.
>

that version of mesa is way too old.  you also need to install the
savage drm as it does not ship with your kernel.
 

> when i type "glxinfo" into the shell it tell me that i'm not using 
> direct rendering. it's about a month that i'm looking around over the
> 
> net,  but i didn't managed to make work the direct rendering....
> 
> anyone can help me??
> 

If you want to build all the components youself, take a look at the DRI
building instructions here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building
if you want to try nightly binary snapshots, you can grab them here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76

> thanx
> 
> ciao
> emanuele
> 
> ps. what's savage_dri.so??
> i got this file in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
> 

It's the 3d driver for savage. 


Alex


		
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