Re: [debian-x] 3gl working extremely slow.
* Seth Arnold (sarnold@willamette.edu) wrote:
> * Gordon Heydon <gjheydon@bigfoot.com> [001111 23:06]:
> > I am having some problem getting 3gl to work correctly on my matrox
> > g400. I have installed the mesa drivers that come with the XFree 4.0.1
> > debs, and I have also gotting the libglu from the current unstable
> > version of mesa.
>
> Gordon, getting everything right is damn near impossible. Thank your own
> deity that Branden has done most of the work for us already. :)
> Currently, I don't use libGLU, but copying the one libGLU library out of
> the package is probably sufficient.
>From Reading this list and studding the archives it sujested getting
from another package.
>
> What I have found about getting my g400Max to do GLX is that it requires
> using XFree86's mga_drv.o driver, loading the agpgart and mga kernel
> modules (I use 2.4.0-test10 with good success, and perhaps
> 2.2.18-presomething would have the same effect, but that may require
> kernel drivers from dri.sourceforge.net) and having the right mix of
> packages installed. I don't think it takes any of the mesa packages.
>
As I am only using a single head with my dual head card this is what I
am using, I am going to play with dual head sometime when I get a bit of
a chance. I basically have the same setup, 2.4.0-test10, the latest
debs, and the agpgart and the mga modules loaded, but one thing does
puzzle me, it the the mga module is not in use, So I don't think
something is quite right.
> To get the g400Max to do dual-head requires using matrox's mga_drv.o
> file. I'm not sure if agpgart and mga need to be unloaded or not from
> the kernel, but I do, to save memory.
>
> You will also need to tweak your XF86Config-4 file to load the glx, dri,
> GLCore, and dbe modules. (I have two config files, one to describe both
> monitors, one to describe only one monitor, and I switch between the two
> when I want GL to work.)
>
I have all these modules loaded.
> Yes, it is a bit annoying, but not enough to cause me to learn how to
> program these things for the accelerated OpenGL while running dual-head.
>
Thanks for the help.
Gordon.
> HTH
>
> Some useful package information:
>
> $ dpkg -l '*mesa*'
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> un mesa-dev <none> (no description available)
> pn mesademos <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag-dev <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag-glide2-d <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag-widgets- <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag3 <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag3+ggi <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag3+ggi-dev <none> (no description available)
> un mesag3-glide <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag3-glide2 <none> (no description available)
> pn mesag3-widgets <none> (no description available)
> ii xlibmesa3 4.0.1-1 XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library
> ii xlibosmesa3 4.0.1-1 XFree86 version of Mesa off-screen rendering
>
> $ dpkg -l 'x*' | grep 4.0
> ii xbase-clients 4.0.1-1 miscellaneous X clients
> ii xfonts-75dpi 4.0.1-1 75 dpi fonts for X
> ii xfonts-base 4.0.1-1 standard fonts for X
> ii xfonts-pex 4.0.1-1 fonts for minimal PEX support in X
> ii xfonts-scalabl 4.0.1-1 scalable fonts for X
> ii xfree86-common 4.0.1-1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
> ii xfwp 4.0.1-1 X firewall proxy server
> ii xlib6g 4.0.1-1 pseudopackage providing X libraries
> ii xlib6g-dev 4.0.1-1 pseudopackage providing X library developmen
> ii xlibmesa3 4.0.1-1 XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library
> ii xlibosmesa3 4.0.1-1 XFree86 version of Mesa off-screen rendering
> ii xlibs 4.0.1-1 X Window System client libraries
> ii xlibs-dev 4.0.1-1 X Window System client library development f
> ii xnest 4.0.1-1 nested X server
> ii xprt 4.0.1-1 X print server
> ii xserver-common 4.0.1-1 files and utilities common to all X servers
> ii xserver-xfree8 4.0.1-1 the XFree86 X server
> ii xterm 4.0.1-1 X terminal emulator
> ii xutils 4.0.1-1 XFree86 utility programs
> ii xvfb 4.0.1-1 virtual framebuffer X server
>
>
>
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