Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:53:46 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> To: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRI - Direct Rendering Message-ID: <20020416145346.52536.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020416103419.A354@rochester.rr.com>
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--- mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:19:25PM +0200, Karel J. > Bosschaart wrote: > <snip> > > > > Do you have the agp device in your kernel config > or do > > you load as a module? I've seen a machine where > the agp module > > only worked when loaded at boot time in > /boot/loader.conf > > (or compiled in the kernel) but it was some time > ago and someone > > reported that this crashed his machine :-(. > > > > If you have agp in your kernel, I'm out of > ideas... > > I didn't see it, but has an XFree86 log been posted? > A perusal of that will generally give a clue where > the > problem lies. > > > > > Oh well, one other thing comes to mind: IIRC, DRI > only works for > > 16bpp > > I've been using DRI successfully at 24 bpp for > several months. > > >and there should be enough memory left for DRI, > which means > > that you could try lowering your resolution if you > have some high > > settings, although I don't expect that with 64 MB > ;-). > > > > Karel. > > > > mike > -- > Well we seem to be making progress. dropping the bpp to 16 in XF86Config and restarting the server gives me a direct rendering enabled message in the log. :-) However my app (Java3D) doesan't seem to want to run in anything below 24bpp. :-( mpd - How did you get your system to run in 24bpp? Gavin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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