On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:32:13 +0100 Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote: > I have a laptop (thinkpad a22m) with a rage mobility card. Depending on where > i look (lspci, proc etc) it is reported as either a Rage Mobility LF, or a > Rage Mobility P/M. > > I have x working nicely (very smooth dvd playback etc) but i cant get DRI to > work at all (using 2.4.18 kernel with many drm compiled in, and the r128 > module compiled seperately). On site from linux laptops recomends using the > r128 driver instead of the ati driver, however that doesnt work, my X server > simply will not start (no screens found error). > > I have read the documentation at dri.sourceforge.net, the 3 pages referenced > by linux laptops for this model, and anything else i could find. I have tried > xfree86 4.1 from sid, and the 4.2 packages from people.debian.org/~branden > (or similar, forget exactly). I have also read that my card may in fact have > a Mach64 chipset, and not a rage 128, but the only driver i can find for the > mach64 is the ati one anyway. I have also tried the drivers from the gatos > project with no luck. I have been told that this card actually has no 3d > hardware, but everything i read says that DRI should work. glxinfo always > reports dri as off, no matter what i try. > > I really hope one of you guys can help me, im all out of ideas. Yes, your chipset belong to mach64 chipset familly probably. Goto http://dri.sf.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ and download the last snapshot for mach64. Untar it and launch ./install.sh
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