On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 05:36 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 05:16 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > 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/ > > Strike that. > Oops... you don't have a rage128, you have a rage-pro chipset - which > AFAIR, is more-or-less the same as my mach64/rage-LT chipset. (Am I > right?) > If so, do the following: > A. Download the latest mach64 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 mach64 DRI kernel module using the build-in install.sh script. > C. Make sure you have a working SRPM build environment. [2] > D. Download and install the latest mesa SRPM from Fedora. [3] > E. Apply the attached patch to the mesa.spec file. [4] (cd ~/redhat/SPEC; patch -p0 < /patch/file/path/mesa.patch) > F. Build and install the hand-build mesa SRPM. (rpmbuild -ba mesa.spec) > > Be aware the mach64 DRI is a bit, err, sketchy, it should be enough to run a composite manager > (xcompmgr/kompmgr) and a nice OpenGL screen saver - but it's not iron proof. > (Read: I never tried running compiz/beryl on it, and I had a few crashes) > > - Gilboa > [1] http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ > [2] http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/building_RPMS_from_SRPMS.html > [3] > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/SRPMS/ > [4] mesa.patch follows: > ==== BEGIN patch ======= > --- mesa.spec.old 2007-02-26 12:45:09.000000000 +0200 > +++ mesa.spec 2007-02-26 12:47:35.000000000 +0200 > @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ > Summary: Mesa graphics libraries > Name: mesa > Version: 6.5.1 > -Release: 9%{?dist} > +Release: 10%{?dist} > License: MIT/X11 > Group: System Environment/Libraries > URL: http://www.mesa3d.org > @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ > > %if %{with_dri} > install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/dri > -for f in i810 i915 i965 mga r128 r200 r300 radeon savage sis tdfx > unichrome; do > +for f in i810 i915 i965 mga r128 r200 r300 radeon savage sis tdfx > unichrome mach64; do > so=%{_lib}/${f}_dri.so > test -e $so && install -m 0755 $so $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/dri > done > @@ -419,6 +419,9 @@ > %{_bindir}/glxinfo > > %changelog > +* Wed Feb 26 2007 Gilboa Davara <gilboad [AT] gmail.com> 6.5.1-10.fc6 > +- Mach64 support. > + > * Wed Jan 24 2007 Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> 6.5.1-9.fc6 > - Add a build (and hopefully runtime) fix for mach64. (#221117) > ==== END patch ======= > > Thanks, Gilboa, That is good information, and I will try it, but from the comments here and from others, I think I just need a good upgrade. I will certainly try this tonight and let you know how it turns out. Regards, Les H
