Re: OpenGL acceleration on a rage 128 pro
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Nathan Conrad wrote:
>
> > I have a Macintosh G4 (AGP) with a rage 128 pro card. I've tried to
> > 'apt-get install xlibmesa3', but after doing this, my computer freezes
> > when attempting to run a OpenGL program. For example, when I open
> > glxgears, A black window pops up and the system stops responding to
>
> Yes, I have seen this. Try using 16bpp depth instead of 24/32bpp - Rage128
> still doesn't seem to like to do 3D stuff in 24bpp, or at least not on
> Linux.
This helped it. It doesn't crash now (Although it did immediatly after
restarting XFree86). glxgears runs about 5 times faster (about 250 fps).
Thank you for the tip.
>
> > keyboard or mouse input. The unaccelerated mesag3 works perfectly, but
> > slowly. I am using a very recent benh kernel. XFree86 4.1 claims that DRM
> > is enabled for the card. It should be noted that I also have a voodoo3 in
> > my computer, which does not work. It too crashes the computer when I try
> > to 'insmod tdfxfb'. The glxinfo spits out the following:
>
> The tdfxfb may be broken for big-endian, I don't know. Or it may just be
> because you have 2 vidcards.
It freezes after spitting out a debug message about the hwcursor. Must I
pass it some arguments when loading it (such as which depth to use?). If
so, How do I do this with depmod?
>
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