Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

From: Marc Wilson (msw_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/11/03

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    On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:52:54PM +0000, Piers Kittel wrote:
    > Marc - here's the Quake 3 error on the G550:
    > Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
    > But works fine on the TNT2

    Don't know a thing about Quake... Quake puts me to sleep. Can't see it as
    anything but a good thing that it doesn't work for you.

    > Bill, Fair enough, but it doesn't work on both heads, not just one.

    You should get accelerated OGL on both heads.

    > matroxfb: Matrox G550 detected
    > fb0: MATROX VGA frame buffer device

    Ewwwwwww... framebuffer. Shoot immediately with extreme prejudice. Large
    caliber weapons.

    > But then again, AGPART doesn't work:
    > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
    > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
    > agpgart: unsupported bridge
    > agpgart: no supported devices found.
    > [drm:drm_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.

    Well gee, now you know why DRI doesn't work. Provide support for your
    GART. 

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