[Dri-users] Re: [Dri-devel] XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returns false ?

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
> 
> * ?yvind J?gtnes <oy...@da...> (Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:18:47PM +0200)
> > Nathan Hand <na...@ma...> writes:
> 
> >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:12:37AM +0200, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
> >>> I cannot run accelerated , when I set LIBGL_DEBUG to verbse I get an error
> >>> message that sais:
> >>> XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returns FALSE.
> >>> Any suggestions what may have caused this ?
> >>> (2.3.51, G400, last weeks CVS on top of XF401 binary install )
> 
> >> You might need a newer kernel to get the latest DRM kernel module. The
> >> latest CVS probably doesn't work with the older kernel versions.
> 
> > I used newest cvs on top of binary install of XF401 with 2.3.51.. it
> > worked. I'm using 2.4.0-test7 now though.
> 
> Hmm ..
> Tried 2.4.0t6 w/ mga.o from 2.4.0.t6 on top of the binary install,
> same problem
> 
> XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returns FALSE.
> 
> Compiled mga.o from the DRI-tree (only the mga.o) used that one,
> same result
> 
> XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returns FALSE.
> 
> I guess I just have to redo the binary install or somesuch and see what
> happens then ..

Have you carefully examined the log messages printed while the X server
starts up?  There might be an explanation there as to why DRI is disabled.

-Brian