[Savage40] [Update] How to enable DRI with an S3 ProSavage DDR?

[Tim Roberts]

Simone Castellaneta wrote:

> Browsing my /var/log/XFree86.0.log I've found some interesting things:
>
> Up to now I made no modifications to my system configuration to make 
> DRI work so obviously glxinfo says:
>
> Ok... browsing /var/log/XFree86.0.log I found:
>
> [...]
> (II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
> Skipping 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o":  No sym
> bols found
> Skipping 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o":  No sym
> bols found
> Skipping 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o":  No sy
> mbols found
> Skipping 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o":  No s
> ymbols found
> (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>        compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
>        ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
>
> Could these errors have something to do with missing DRI support?


No.  The problem is much simpler.  None of my drivers support DRI.

> "version 1.1.27t"..... the same thing I was thinking to install... 
> it's already there!
> So... why DRI isn't working?


Because my drivers do not have DRI support.  The web page says that.  
The DRI support is all very recent, and exists only in the X.org 
version.  XFree86 is, for all intents and purposes, dead.  There has 
been a discussion about this in the mailing list; you might scan through 
the archive.  You should be able to install the latest X.org release 
and, with a little bit of futzing, get DRI to work.

-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.