DRI on ATI Rage Mobility M3

23 Sep 2003

      Hello, all...

I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 with a Mobility M3, and, for the life of me, I 
can't get DRI working on it.

Gears complains about no DRI, and then gets ~100 FPS:
nleroy@host:~> gears
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
514 frames in  5.000 seconds = 102.800 FPS

Tuxracer complains similarly...

XFree86 detects it as:
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x rev 2, Mem @ 
0xe4000000/26, 0xfdffc000/14, I/O @ 0xec00/8

SaX setup XFree86 to load GLX and DRI, and, from looking at the log, it 
appears that they're loaded correctly.  Actually, that's not quite true.  I 
can't really get SaX2 to generate a correct config because I need to add a 
'option "Display" "BIOS"' by hand to the device line to get it to display at 
all.  It appears that DRI and GLX are being properly loaded, however.

Relevant info:

nleroy@host:~> rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-4.3.0-111
nleroy@host:~> rpm -q k_deflt
k_deflt-2.4.20-100

On a whim, I've tried loading the r128 module by hand, to no avail:
nleroy@host:~> /sbin/lsmod | head
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
r128                   81396   0 (unused)
agpgart                35520   1 (autoclean)

I've tried running switchxf86_glx & 3Ddiag:
host:~ # 3Ddiag
3Ddiag version 0.691
Verifying 3D configuration:
Using 3dinfo
************************************************************

Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board
"ATI Technologies Inc Mobility M3 AGP 2x (1002@4c46)":

Tests for package "XFree86-GLX":
  package ... done.
  package files ... done.

Tests for correct OpenGL libraries/GLX extensions:
  Symbolic Links ... done.
  /etc/sysconfig/3ddiag (SCRIPT_3D=switch2xf86_glx) ... done.

Test for correct XFree86 version ... done.

Tests for XFree86 configuration:
  Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done.
  Driver ... done.
  Color Depth ... done.
  Extensions ... done.
  Options ... done.

----------------------- NOTE -----------------------------------
If 3D hardware OpenGL configuration is not stable enough, you
should switch back to 'Mesa Software Rendering'. You can
verify this configuration with the command "3Ddiag --mesasoft".
----------------------- NOTE -----------------------------------

Checking GLU/glut runtime configuration:
  GLU  ... done (package mesaglu)
  glut ... done (package mesaglut)

Googling around shows that other people seem to be having similar problems, 
but I haven't found any answers.

I can provide my entire XF86Config and XFree86.0.log, in case they're helpful.  
I will post a couple of snippets in line, however:

Section "Module"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "speedo"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "glx"
  Load         "dri"
EndSection

-- and --
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
(II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a
(II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "r128"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
(II) Module r128: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 4.0.1
        Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
(II) Module ati: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 6.4.18
        Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6

If anybody could offer any insight into what I have configured wrong, need to 
install, etc., I'd be greatly appreciative.

Thanks in advance!

-Nick

DRI on ATI Rage Mobility M3

Nick LeRoy