Hello Brian,
Thanks for replying.
Yes, towards the end of the log I get:
...
(==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xf2000000,0x1000000)
(--) MGA(0): 16 DWORD fifo
(==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 16 depth: 16
(II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2196+632: 2828
(0): [drm] created "mga" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(0): [drm] added 4096 byte SAREA at 0xdb3fe000
(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xdb3fe000 to 0x4001c000
(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf2000000
(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) MGA(0): [drm] Registers = 0xfeafc000
[drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded for AGP mode 1x
(II) MGA(0): WARP Microcode Loaded
(II) MGA(0): [drm] calced backoffset: 0x53b000
(II) MGA(0): [drm] added 31 65536 byte DMA buffers
(II) MGA(0): [drm] Mga Dma Initialization start
(II) MGA(0): [drm] Mga Dma Initialization done
(II) MGA(0): [drm] Initialized Dma Engine
(II) MGA(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 9
(II) MGA(0): visual configs initialized
(II) MGA(0): Using 512 lines for offscreen memory.
(II) MGA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
...
I downloaded 2.4.1 today. I'll give that a go, although if you've got
it working on test10 then I'd have thought it would work on test11 or
2.4.0.
LeeE
brian moore wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:39:11PM +0000, Lee Elliott wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I'm not able to get hardware rendering/GL running on my G400. Kernel is
> > currently 2.4.0-test11 (2.4.0 was a bit wobbly for me - haven't d/loaded
> > 2.4.1 yet) and I'm getting the follwing error in /var/log/XFre86.0.log
>
> Okay, that mostly matches me (though I'm on test10 since I'm lazy...)
>
> > (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> > (II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
> > (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> > (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> > compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 0.1.0
> > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3
> > (**) MGA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
> > (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 565
> > (II) Loading sub module "mga_hal"
> > (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal"
> > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal
> > (II) UnloadModule: "mga_hal"
> > (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0)
> > (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag400"
> > (II) MGA(0): Offscreen memory usage will be limited to 512 lines if the
> > DRI is enabled.
> > (==) MGA(0): Using AGP Mode 1x
> > (--) MGA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF2000000
> > (--) MGA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFEAFC000
> > (--) MGA(0): Pseudo-DMA transfer window at 0xFE000000
> > (--) MGA(0): BIOS at 0xFEAE0000
> >
> > So, mga_hal does not exist! Indeed it doesn't - at least I couldn't
> > find it.
>
> Right, nor does it exist on mine... but my acceleration works fine
> (tuxracer is unplayable without it :)).
>
> The driver you want is just above all that:
>
> (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w,
> mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (--) Chipset mgag400 found
>
> > Funnily enough, DRI goes on to initialise ok - so it claims, but using
> > the ssystem -bench option shows no difference in performance. It's a
> > pity because I've got another installation on this same system that I've
> > frozen with X3.3.6 & glx that runs like a dream.
>
> Do you have a bunch of noise from DRM?
>
> (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xce000000,0x1000000)
> (--) MGA(0): 16 DWORD fifo
> (==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 16 depth: 16
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2196+632: 2828
> (0): [drm] created "mga" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
> (0): [drm] added 4096 byte SAREA at 0xc89c9000
> (0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc89c9000 to 0x4001c000
> (0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xce000000
> (0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Registers = 0xcd000000
> [drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded for AGP mode 1x
> (II) MGA(0): WARP Microcode Loaded
>
> etc etc...
>
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