Re: G400 DRI?

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

Joshua, first, let me make it clear I am far from knowledgeable about
this subject. :)

I am pretty sure I didn't do much special to get DRI working on my g400
max. I am running branden's .debs, the matrox driver, and kernel
2.4.0-test7. I ensured that the agpgart module and mga kernel module
were going to be compiled, and then compiled and installed.

I think I was running DRI for a while there, because many dialog boxes
on my primary display had some strange vertical bars -- a symptom of
running DRI in a colordepth other than 16 (or is it other than 16 or
32?)

Now that I run dual-head, I have to restart into single-head mode for
DRI to work.

Again, let me stress my ignorance. I managed to get q3demo to work at
30 to 50 fps in a window (I can't get it to full-screen, for some odd
reason) -- so I figured DRI was working. :)

HTH

* Joshua Shagam <joshagam@cs.nmsu.edu> [000923 08:30]:
> Hello, I've just upgraded my XFree 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 using these wonderful
> packages, and haven't had any problems.  Except one... I need the DRI
> driver for my G400.  Specifically, I'm trying to use Matrox's
> binary-distributed one, and as it turns out, they only distribute a binary
> version of the 2D driver (which makes sense, given the DRI's kernel module
> nature).  The DRI driver is only in source.  But I don't want to download
> 50 megs of XFree86 source on my 28.8 modem. :)
> 
> Has anyone built the G400 DRI module against kernel 2.2.17?  I don't even
> need this for game playing - I need this for my research.  3D graphics
> research really sucks on software Mesa. :)  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  Or perhaps if I could just get the necessary header files to
> build the module myself (I have the kernel source and I can always just
> make-kpkg).
> 
> Also, in the future, how will DRI modules be packaged?  Perhaps there will
> be an xfree-server-heards package so that one can simply download their
> favorite DRI module's source and then use make-kpkg to build it alongside
> their kernel?  That seems to me to be the simplest way...
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
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