On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 05:24:31PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:
> I have a ATI Radeon FireGL X1 128MB that I would like to get dri working
> on. I know that we recently went to glibc2.3 in unstable (I'm not sure
> about testing).
Sid has had it for >6 months, sarge got it fairly recently.
> This is all in the cause of getting better framerates on
> 'glxgears' (and graphics in particular). It currently gives me ~330fps.
> My ego (and quake3demo) wants more! :)
>
> Now, I checked on the dri website at dri.sourceforge.net and found that
> since my card has the RV300 chip, it is not supported by dri yet. I then
> went to get the proprietary drivers from ati.com and it says that the
> drivers are compiled for glibc2.2 . Also I tried running that little
> "check.sh" that they have and it told me the same thing that I already
> knew (that I have glibc2.3).
I'm fairly sure that programs built against glibc 2.2 should be
guaranteed to work with glibc 3.3. Barring bugs in gcc or glibc, I
guess. If it doesn't, though, file a bug. Not that it does *not* work
the other way round; programs built against glibc 2.3 generally don't
work on glibc 2.2 systems.
> I also run XFree86 4.3.0 from the penguinppc.org/~daniels repo. since I
> could not get my card to work with XFree4.2 and upon reading on some
> website, followed instructions to get it working with Xfree4.3.
>
> If I installed the binary drivers (which are for glibc2.3 and
2.2?
> Xfree4.2/4.1 only), then what are the chances that it will work on my
> system with minimum breakage? Has anyone already done this?
It's worth a shot. As I said above, the glibc thing should be fine. I
don't know about XFree86, but I'd think they'd have that sort of
compatibility, too.
> I also read somewhere else that the Xfree4.2 binary driver works with
> Xfree4.3,
Cool.
> but this was on another distro (Mandrake or something, I can't
> remember).
Generally, the distro doesn't matter with things like this. Unless
Mandrake has done some maaaaajor hackage on X, it should be almost
identical to the version for Debian. I think it highly unlikely they'd
change the interfaces and make themselves incompatible with everyone
else, for commercial reasons, if nothing else :)
> To sum up the info about my system:
> Debian Unstable (update as of 22 May 2003 except for some held back kde
> packages)
> ATI FireGL X1 128mb
> Glibc2.3.1
> Xfree 4.3.0
>
> Would it be any help at all to post my XF86config-4 file?
Just give it a go. If it doesn't work, your XF86Config4 and
/var/log/XFree86.0.log files would certainly be most useful.
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