On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:42:41PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: > jordan muscott wrote: > >Greets all, > > > >Linux-mandrake 8.1 , kernel 2.4.18 > >PIII > >ati rage pro - mach64. > > > >On the above setup i can get hardware acceleration with the Xfree 3.3.6 > >that came with my distro via GLX. I built Xfree 4.2 from the mandrake > >8.2 src rpms because i read that the support for my card was better with > >4.2 than with the 4.1 which came with my distro. > > > >However, having just tried to play Chromium ( > >http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/ ), i realise that i am > >still only getting this acceleration with 3.3.6. A quick google lead me > >to read this :http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/faq.html , and now I am > >faultering with ignorance. Do I need to compile Xfree4.2 with DRI > >enabled? > > There is currently no "official" support for hardware accelerated OpenGL > on this card w/XFree86 4.x.x. However, there are some folks who have > been working on a driver. I'm not that familiar with that driver. I'm > CC'ing this message to the dri-devel list. Hopefully one of the RagePro > (aka mach64) developers on there can point you in the right direction.
Jordan, see Leif's page http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_status.html for information about the driver status and how to build it. The driver is mostly done, but several things have been delaying the merge: - insecure DMA model which didn't allow us to give more control to the client. - insuficiency of the DRM DMA engine in handling this chip specificities which will force to extend/rewrite the DRM DMA engine API. - not much free time to do the remaining bits... Regards, Jos� Fonseca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
