Re: Trouble with DRI (WAS: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available)

From: Arnt Karlsen (arnt_at_c2i.net)
Date: 09/09/03

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    On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:49:21 +0800,
    csj <csj@zapo.net> wrote in message
    <87iso2deny.wl@antares.localhost.invalid>:

    > At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 05:20:28 +0200 (CEST),
    > Roberto Sanchez wrote:
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > > OK. I'm hoping that someone can help me out here. This
    > > morning I downloaded the new Knoppix CD that came out on
    > > Friday. I burned it and used it to boot my machine, and to my
    > > surprise it recognized the nForce2 AGPGART and even
    > > successfully loaded the DRI drivers. Not only that, but the
    > > frame rate in glxgears was like 2500 fps, versus 1925 that I
    > > get with the new closed-source ATI driver. So I set about
    > > duplicating Knoppix's setup, but nothing worked.
    > >
    > > I added this line to sources.list:
    > >
    > > deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./
    >
    > I used to download my source from that site, when
    > Daniel-san. first took it upon himself to create XFree86 4.3 for
    > the terminally impatient. Now my 4.3 packages come from:
    >
    > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/
    >
    > I don't know how unofficial that is. But there are near nightly
    > builds of the debian diff's to the X sources. So somebody must
    > be maintaining them. To be sure, I take the trouble of compiling
    > from the source.
    >
    > > Which got me the same exact XFree86 that Knoppix uses (I had
    > > built my own packages from the sources and patches on the
    > > X-Strike Force page) back on July 22. I also downloaded the
    > > latest Radeon tarball from dri.sourceforge.net. Nothing I did
    > > got DRI working with the open source drivers. I also tried the
    > > xlibmesa4-drm-source package, but that did not help either.
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > Did you try "lsmod" on both machines? Did you make sure the
    > binary stuff was totally purged from your system? I ran into
    > some problem when I replaced my NVidia with the Radeon. The
    > binary drivers at that time wouldn't surrender without a fight
    > (something to do with "diversions" IRC).
    >
    > Also I get my opensource radeon DRI drivers from a Debian
    > maintainer's unofficial "site":
    >
    > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/
    > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/
    >
    > The first URL is for xfree86 4.2, the other for xfree86 4.3. I
    > had to eliminate the kernel options that would compile the
    > kernel's native radeon drivers (which would would be replaced by
    > dri-trunk's own kernel modules).
    >
    > To be sure I'm running Daenzer's unofficial debs on top of the
    > official sid X 4.2. The debs allow me to play Chromium and
    > GLTron with decent explosions. Since the Radeon VE doesn't have
    > TCL (whatever that means) I get worse fps (100 fps) when running
    > glxgears under DRI than when running it under plain X (200 fps).
    > I think Chromium is a better test for 3D acceleration because it
    > allows you to waste your time in a more entertaining manner.

    ..huh? :-) Any chance these work with these cards:
     cat /proc/pci |tail -n 7
      Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
        VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC
    AGP (rev 122).
          IRQ 11.
          Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.
          Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xeaffffff].
          I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff].
          Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe9000fff].

    ...and:

      Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
        VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+
    215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 154).
          Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.
          Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0ffffff].
          I/O at 0x6600 [0x66ff].
          Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe1000fff].

    ...??? Needed for http://flightgear.org/ ... 

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