Re: DRI on Voodoo3 PCI and OldWorld
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 23:08, Anthony Lau wrote:
> Is it possible to get accelerated X with a Voodoo3 PCI
> on an Old World?
>
> I've gotten DRI/DRM going in the kernel:
>
> [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
>
> and in X running 16bit:
>
> (II) TDFX(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
> (II) TDFX(0): [DRI] installation complete
> (==) TDFX(0): Direct rendering enabled
>
> All looks good to me, but...glxinfo reports:
>
> > glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 1.0.1 tdfx
> libGL: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so
> libGL error: dlopen failed: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> libGL: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so
> libGL error: dlopen failed: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2
>
> Uh-oh, no tdfx_dri.so module. A search shows this is
> not available in the PPC libmesa3 package. So is a
> self-compile of XFree86 in order?
You won't get it working without getting your hands dirty. The tdfx DRI
driver needs glide3 to work. So you'd have to to build that first, then
tdfx_dri.so, and then make those and the DRM behave as expected by
themselves and together.
Good luck :)
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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