Hi all,
I aquired a secondhand Compaq M700 notebook, which features an ATi Rage
Mach64 graphics chipset. I'm running Etch. I've got all the things in
my XF86config-4 file that I need (I think) and I don't get any error
messages (aside from some font and apm issues) in my XFree logs. But
when I run glxgears I get a message saying:
xlib: extention "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
And the output doesn't appear to be hardware accelerated - I get 196
FPS. I'm not really that bothered about the hardware 3D (although it
would be nice to be able to play Quake3) but it doesn't appear to do
hardware overlay/scaling when I play movies either - CPU usage is very
high and the screen updates are notably slow, even though MPlayer says
it's using "xv" for video out.
I have the following packages installed:
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System (XFree86)
infrastructure
ii xlibmesa-dri 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Mesa 3D graphics library modules
[XFree86]
ii xlibmesa-gl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa-glu 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree86]
ii xserver-xfree8 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 the XFree86 X server
Is anybody else running this notebook? How did you configure X? Do I
need to load the gatos drivers (and if so, how?)
theluggage:/home/hansdp# lspci -v -s 01:00.0
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage
Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Armada M700
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1
>From XF86Config-4:
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
BoardName "Rage Mobility Pro"
VendorName "ATi"
Driver "ati"
Chipset "mach64"
VideoRam 8192
EndSection
Thanks
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Kind Regards
Hans du Plooy
SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
hansdp at sagacit dot com
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