From: Robert F. <fa...@ae...> - 2001-05-11 22:22:20
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Hi folks, Has anyone managed to get direct rendering working with a VooDoo5 AGP card and Mandrake 8.0? It just will not work for me. I've corresponded with the relevant Mandrake developer and he cannot see anything wrong with my setup. However in the XFree log, I get: (WW) TDFX(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd8000000,0x7fff800) (II) TDFX(0): Textures Memory 55.93 MB (0): [drm] loaded kernel module "tdfx" (0): [drm] created "tdfx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" (0): [drm] added 4096 byte SAREA at 0xe9a4e000 (0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe9a4e000 to 0x40016000 (0): [drm] drmAddMap failed (EE) TDFX(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI. (II) TDFX(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) DRISetup gives: Your config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Your module path is /usr/X11R6/lib/modules You are running in GLX Indirect Rendering Mode The kernel module has not been loaded Yet, lsmod says: tdfx 33488 0 agpgart 21280 0 (unused) If I get the latest build and exra packages, direct rendering doesn't work with tdfx-v0.6-linux-i386. If I then use Extras-v0.6-linux-i386, X itself will no longer start, yielding a multi-hundreds of megabytes XFree86 log file, filled with address-range variants of: (WW) TDFX(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd8000000,0x7fff800) I get that whether agpgart is loaded or not. Until yesterday, I was thinking that it might be a hardware issue and that I'd stll have to be booting into Windows (yuck!). But a Debian unstable installation on this same machine did enable direct rendering! I'd really like to get it working with Mandrake 8.0, though. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might proceed. My system: AMD Thunderbird 1 GHz, Asus A7V133 motherboard, 640MB RAM, Voodoo5 AGP 64 MB, Mandrake 8.0, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk rpm -qa | grep XFree: XFree86-libs-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-doc-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-Xnest-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-glide-module-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-devel-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-static-libs-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.3-9mdk XFree86-server-4.0.3-9mdk I stuck the libglide3.so for the Voodoo4/5 from the Resouces page into /usr/lib. Cheers, Rob |