From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 7:54: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web20010.mail.yahoo.com (web20010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.225.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B54637B416 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020416145346.52536.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.123.204.66] by web20010.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:53:46 BST Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:53:46 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= Subject: Re: DRI - Direct Rendering To: mpd , "Karel J. Bosschaart" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020416103419.A354@rochester.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- mpd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:19:25PM +0200, Karel J. > Bosschaart wrote: > > > > > 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