Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering
To all who helped,
Thank you! I'll not get to try this for some hours (I'm at work now), but I feel
hopeful...
And Rich, I never complain about too much detail. Thanks again :). I wasn't aware of
the xlibmesa issue.
John Foster
Rich Rudnick wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote:
> > Thanks for replies so far....
> >
> > Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI 1st.
> > Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is
> > designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable.
> >
> > This is completely frustrating. The machine in question is one of those
> > 'E-Machines', a budget buy from CostCo. Has anyone got DRI working woith a
> > Voodoo3 PCI in one?
>
> I've got a eMachine 466is, and yes, I've got dri working. First, to get
> the v3 recognized as the primary display: In the graphical bios screen,
> find pci/pnp setup. In that submenu, find initial display select.
> That's where you set the pci slot as the primary video display.
>
> Second, make sure that you have _only_ xlibmesa from X4.1.0 installed.
> You should have no other mesa packages installed. Also make sure you
> have libglide3 installed. Be sure libglide2 is not installed.
>
> I've also cut out what I -think- are the important parts of my
> XF86Config-4 file.
>
> Section "Module"
> ...
> Load "dri"
> Load "glx"
> ...
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Voodoo3 (generic)"
> Driver "tdfx"
> VendorName "Voodoo3 (generic)"
> BoardName "Voodoo3 (generic)"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
> I hope this helps. Don't forget that the DefaultDepth in the section
> "Screen" needs to be set to 16.
>
> If this is too much detail, well, maybe someone else can use it :)
>
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