On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:01 -0700, Les wrote: > Hi, everyone, the ongoing battle of the graphics cards. My "good" read > high speed full development system runs well. However I want to use an > older system with Croquet. Problem: the older system appears > misconficured somehow. > It has an ATI Rage Pro graphics chip set according to lspci, And the > graphics configuration for X sets it up as a Rage board OK. I have > attempted to down load the latest ATI driver for it, but unsuccessfully, > so I suspect I will have to attempt that late tonight when there is less > traffic. In the mean time, I am working to discover what I can about > the current setup that is bad. I went throght the configuration on > Finley's site, and it appeared to work OK, then when I rebooted, it > began to reconfigure the graphics on every reboot. And I still have low > performance, and moreover seem to have lost a bit of software from the > graphics interface. Here is the output from glxgears: > [lesh@localhost ~]$ glxgears > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > 541 frames in 6.1 seconds = 89.342 FPS > 452 frames in 5.6 seconds = 80.584 FPS [snip] > Does anyone have any idea of what I should try next? Or where I could > look for debugging this program? > > Regards, > Les H Sadly enough, there's no easy solution for your problem. For the time being I'm forced to download/patch/build/install the DRI drivers (and the mesa RPM) for my mach64 based laptop display by hand. On the upside, the next kernel - libDRI sync will most likely include the latest mach64/rage/rage128 drivers paving the pay to a out-of-the-box experience. In the mean time, if you're willing to put an effort into it, do the following: A. Download the latest rage128 snapshot from freedesktop [1]. You'll need to patch it to make it compatible withe latest kernel. (Let me know if you need help.) B. Build and install the rage128 DRI kernel module using the build-in install.sh script. C. As far as I remember, the mesa RPM already includes the user-land rage128 DRI driver, so there's no need to patch and rebuild the mesa SRPM. (One of my least favorite tasks :() - Gilboa [1] http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
