Re: [Dri-users] Voodoo5 and Mandrake 8.0

[Bill <sk...@zo...>]

You have to get Glide from cvs and compile and install Mandrake 8's glide is
messed up. Works great for me I can play UT, HL&CS in wine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fargher" <fa...@ae...>
To: <dri...@li...>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: [Dri-users] Voodoo5 and Mandrake 8.0


> 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
>
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