Re: savage card, X.org, DRI, Mesa
Hi,
> All the needed modules are also installed: drm, savage, agpart, via_agp
> (my laptop has a VIA mainboard) and none complains about anything.
>
>
> X.org seems to be well configured:
> Section "Module"
> Load "GLcore"
> Load "bitmap"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "ddc"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "glx"
> Load "int10"
> Load "record"
> Load "speedo"
> Load "type1"
> Load "vbe"
>
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
Did you do
Driver "via"
(or "savage" for you, mine is the via...)
>
>
> and doing grep dri /var/log/Xorg.0.log I get:
>
> X.Org XInput driver : 0.4
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
> (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o
> ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
> ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
> (II) SAVAGE: driver (version 2.0.0) for S3 Savage chipsets: Savage4,
>
>
> STILL, I cannot get DRI. glxinfo shows:
>
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
>
> and any OpenGL applications runs slowly and sucks 100% of CPU.
>
> I remember reading (but cannot find the link) that debian has only
> Mesa packages that do not support DRI, so you need to get rid of them,
> fetch Mesa sources and compile them. I Have Mesa sources (CVS), compiled
> it and for now installed it in /usr/local/lib, but noting changes. Do I
> have to actually replace the libraries in /usr/lib ? Is there a cleaner
> way to do it ?
>
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=26963&group_id=102048
I did that yesterday and it's working perfectly well. (I had to
install a libxxf86vm tough...).
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