On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:46:19PM -0700, Will Aoki wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:40:27PM -0600, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>
> > I installed the 2.4.12-powerpc-smp kernel image package, and that
> > appeared to work with my SMP. However, the r128 module for DRI doesn't
> > come with that kernel, so I built my own (with r128 and DRI both
> > compiled in, not as modules), from linus's 2.4.14 tree.
> >
> > Although I get the output I expect from the diagnostic tool:
> >
> > glyph@zelda:~% glxinfo | grep direct
> > direct rendering: Yes
> >
> > running glxgears will hang my X server until it is killed -- except for
> > the hardware cursor, which appears to keep displaying just fine.
> > Apparently there are no ill effects to doing this (I've been running for
> > 24 hours since the last time I tried it) but it does not display the
> > friendly MesaGL demo that I have come to know and love.
>
> This also happens on my iBook if AGP is turned on. Try again without AGP
> support.
>
> I seem to recall that r128.o needs AGP turned on in order to build, so
> you should probably build AGP and r128 as modules, but just not load
> agpgart.o.
Conversely, I see just the opposite behavior (on an i386 machine) -- if
r128.o is loaded before or without agpgart.o, hardware accel hangs the
machine. When agpgart is loaded before r128, r128 prints some extra
agp-related stuff to the console when it initializes -- and then hw accel
works for me.
--
Joseph Fannin
jhf@rivenstone.net
"Bull in pure form is rare; there is usually some contamination by data."
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