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Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears



On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:25:31AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:07:40AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>"glxinfo | more"
> >>
> >>and then about the fourth line down to see if you have DRI enabled.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Thanks - also for the others for their answers.
> >
> >A further question:  I see that DRI is not enabled for me.  How do I
> >enable it?  
> >
> >I have the following DRI-related entries in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
> >
> >
> >Section "Module"
> >	Load	"GLcore"
> >	Load	"bitmap"
> >	Load	"dbe"
> >	Load	"ddc"
> >	Load	"dri"
> >	Load	"extmod"
> >	Load	"freetype"
> >	Load	"glx"
> >	Load	"int10"
> >	Load	"record"
> >	Load	"speedo"
> >	Load	"type1"
> >	Load	"vbe"
> >EndSection
> >
> >
> >Section "DRI"
> >	Mode	0666
> >EndSection
> >
> >Maybe it is a hardware issue:
> >
> >    *-display UNCLAIMED
> >            description: VGA compatible controller (VGA)
> >            product: 82865G Integrated Graphics Device
> >            vendor: Intel Corp.
> >            physical id: 2
> >            bus info: pci@00:02.0
> >            version: 02
> >            size: 128MB
> >            clock: 33MHz
> >            capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list
> >            configuration: irq=16
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >Johann
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> I would suggest you keep posts on-list, as there are a lot of folks on 
> the list that are smarter/more experienced than I am. By keeping the 
> posts on-list, others have the opportunity to provide answers; others 
> have the opportunity to learn from your experience. And perhaps most 
> importantly, the posts get archived, so people with similar problems in 
> the future can search for the answers in the archives.
> 
> Having said that . . .
> 
> getting DRI to work, in my experience, is a black art, darker even than 
> the art necessary to get printers working in Linux (and that's saying 
> quite a bit).
> 

You could try the packages from
http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/
You also need to make sure you are using the drm kernel modules and
probably agpgart. You would probably best try to compile the sources
from the package provided from the link I provided.

> I also have a 82865G chipset, and I do not have DRI working on this box. 
> I have no hope of getting DRI to work on this box any time soon. I have 
> gotten DRI to work on other computers, but never reliably, and sometimes 
> I'd experience system lock-ups (couldn't even ssh in), and sometimes I'd 
> upgrade my system and get a new version of X and then DRI would die (ATI 
> - arghghg!). It's just gotten to the point where I don't even bother 
> trying anymore. Of course, that means that I have refrained from getting 
> the gaming bug, because with DRI, many games, even TuxRacer, are unusable.
> 
> I think the most important thing is to have a good, well-supported video 
> card. I've never had a box with a good video card.
> 
> -- 
> Kent
> 
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