I can't wait to hear the answers to this one... I had almost the *exact* same troubles... I've got xfree4 working on my own system (Nvidia, but no DRI), but I tried it with my bro's system with a V3, and... well, you just told that story for me, so I'll just let it go. Anyway, point being, I'm really interested in hearing the responses, as well. "Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso" wrote:
I've having a lot of troubles with the mentioned packages (i don't mean rpm packages, just packages).
I've downloaded, compiled and installed XFREE40 from sources, prior i've uninstalled the xf86-3.3.x package to avoid possible conflicts. I've XFree40 running about right but there's a lot of things that i couldn't understand. I want (need) an XFree40 running with the Direct Rendering Interface. Well, if i've understanded well, the XFree40 gives a mesa installation in its sources, in fact, i've in the directory 'extras' of the XFree40 sources a Mesa directory. I've read the DRI developers html file and try to follow the steps described within it, although i think this is stupid because in the above mentioned 'extras' directory i've DRI also, even the XF86Config file generated with 'XFree86 -configure' option includes by itself a section called DRI and the corresponding drivers in the Device section.
DRI documentation do a mention to a *kernel* based driver that i cannot found in nowhere, thats tdfx.o, the most similar is the tdfx_drv.o that's NOT a kernel driver but an XFree driver for Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo III 3000 cards (the mine) that's in fact loaded to start XFree, but there's none kernel based.
DRI docs. do mention also about an executable file called 'glxinfo' that is for obtain information about the current GL configuration, including hardware; that could give me a chance to test if i'm using accelerated capabilities of my card or not, but that file doesn't seems to be installed on my system and the most similar is one called glinfo that comes with the suse mesa packages that i've *uninstalled* because avoid conflicts with the mesa installation of XFree40.
I've substituyed also the old glint_v3 2.6?.x for voodoo cards that comes with my SuSE (btw., i'm talking about a SuSE 6.2), by another recomended by the DRI docs. and downloaded from linux.3dfx.org (or .com, cannot remember exactly, too many troubles for my damaged brain...). I've installed another package from there and uninstalled the similar one that comes with SuSE, so these are the new ones:
chulthu:/home/fmmarzoa # ls -la *.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 fmmarzoa users 24871 May 6 16:26 Device3Dfx-2.3-5.src.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 fmmarzoa users 2692209 May 11 19:09 Glide_V3-DRI-3.10-6.src.rpm
Of course, i've rebuilt those before install as they are source rpm packages.
I'm reaching madness with this, so excuse my dirty exposition of the troubles.
Ok, stop here, let's go inside the question:
*** How (the hell) can I have an XFree 4.0 system with DRI interface working right on my SuSE 6.0 with a Voodoo III 3000 AGP graphics card without die in the attempt???? ***
I've purchased that Voodoo not because Quake but because I want to learn OpenGL in an acelerated environment, that's the same reason because i've installed XFree40 by its DRI support. But... (sig!)
If i could find a secure manner to test, at least, what things are really working and what others not...
Can someone help me? hey, SuSE guys, come on, you know a lot of this, can you please, please, help me?
Have a good one,
P.S. The mother of the tiny pig is a guest star that have nothing to see with rest.
-- John Lenon... errrr... Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
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