Re: Rage128 and DRI

[Steve Gran <gashuffer@flashcom.net>]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Charles Lewis wrote:

> 
> I've tried and tried, but I can't get DRI to work for my Rage128 AGP card.
> 
> My kernel (2.4.4) has been enabled with:
>  /dev/agpart
>    VIA chipset support (I have Abit KT7A-Raid, KT133 chipset)
>  Direct Rendering Manager
>    ATI Rage 128
> 
> The relevant portions of XF86Config-4:
> Section "Module"
>      Load "GLcore"
>      Load "dri"
> Section "Device"
>      Driver "ati"
> Section "DRI"
>      Mode 0666
> 
> Snippets from the log (a few warnings but no errors):
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
> (II) Module dri: vendor="The Xfree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: Xfree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
> (II) Loading extension Xfree86-DRI
> ...
> (II) R128(0): Using Xfree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> ...
> (II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled
> ...
> (II) R128(0): Direct rendering disabled
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?


I'm struggling with the same thing - try 
 Section "Device"
      Driver "r128"
instead - X 4.0.x is supposed to use this driver for the Rage cards.  That is how I have it set up, and it loads DRI, although I still don't get very much aceleration out of the card.
Good luck, 
Steve