On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:09 -0400, Brendan Kempf wrote: > 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/ > > > > > Have you made sure that composite has been turned off? That was the > trick to making my mobility x700 work perfectly and after running > fglrxinfo show that it was in fact using ati libraries. Naah. This is not a configuration problem - its a missing driver problem. - Gilboa
