On 2002.06.14 04:12 David Willmore wrote:
>
> So, I downloaded the newest mach64 code and installed it.
> After fighting with the drm not loading automatically,
> and the bit depth being too high *smack*, I got direct
> rendering working! :) ~250 fps on glxgears is spiffy--
> beats ~60 without DRI.
>
> With that behind me, I decided to get brave. So, I
> searched /usr/bin for all binaries which link agains
> libGL. Got quite a list. Did a for i in `cat list`; do
> sh -c $i; done and walked through them. Some silly ones
> seem to not run due to lack of resources--they weren't
> specific, but who cares? Fire is sort of cool, but I
> digress. Get down to gltestperf and things start to
> get ugly. It runs through drawing some lines of different
> lengths and then does some triangles. Here it blabs
> something and says that if I have a 3dfx card, I need
> to run the benchmark as root. It also says something
> about pressing <ESC> to continue and about needing
> to move the mouse. Very shortly thereafter, it gets
> slugish and everything slowly grinds to a halt.
>
> At this point, nothing gets its attention. I don't
> have remote access turned on, so I don't have any logs
> of what happened--though I have little doubt that I
> can reproduce it. So, before I setup logging, what
> logging/information would you like to see?
Do this...
...before and leave it running:
cat /proc/kmsg > kmsg.txt
...after:
/var/log/messages
>
> Here's the basic info:
> Linux 2.4.18(homebuilt)
> Base Distro RH7.1
> Machine:
> NEC Versa LX
> 400 MHZ PII(mobile)
> BX/ZX based AGP chipset
> Rage LT Pro AGP133 rev 220 w/8M
> 16 bit color depth *smack*
> XFree86 v4.2
>
> Oh, little question: is 2D accell off when 3D is on?
> I noticed the times that I failed to get 3D accel on,
> the 2D was nice and snappy. Once 3D was on, 2D acted
> like it did in older version where there was no 2D accel.
> Mozilla is *painful* without it. Flash doesn't even
> *work*. :( I'm willing to lose Xv, but 2D accel is too
> much. :) Great work, though, on the 3D!
From what I understood from Leif's posts, 2D accel is now on, but still
has very little memory reserved for it. Solutions for when 3D is not being
used are being worked out.
Jos� Fonseca
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