From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 13:45:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E371837BD59 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26650 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:45:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05597 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:43:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZ3GC800.Q0D; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:45:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3993150B.5E6C934B@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:48:11 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc van Woerkom Cc: bartol@salk.edu, joeo@cracktown.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.1 and DRI References: <20000810202515.369131EF4@nil.science-factory.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > > I've just tried to enable DRI on a G400 but it's still a no go. It's a > > 32MB G400 and I'm trying to run at 16bpp 1280x1024. I get the following > > error message in the XFree86.0.log file (see attached for more detail): > > What worked well was XF 3.3.x series with Utah-glx. > Look for it in the ports collection. I'm not so convinced. I ran Utah-glx on my G200 card and never saw any of the promised speed increase. Maybe nothing was using any of the advanced features of my card, I don't know. > The situation for XF 4.x is not known to me regarding that > card. I am not up date (but catch up :)a > Keep in mind that Utah glx is for XF 3.3.x and that > you can't hang such a glx module into XF 4.x. > XF 4.x uses a SGI implementation and a newer version > of the glx protocol. > Again, I don't know if someone took the old Utah GLX > driver yet and whacked it for XF 4.x series. I think there is more support for the G200/G400 in 4.x. I noticed an actual speed increase in both 2D and 3D when I upgraded, although the 3D increase may be due to the more efficent 2D. I'm not sure if the 3D acceleration ever worked under X. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message