[Dri-users] Matrox g450 and XFree86 4.0/4.1

[Tim B. <tba...@bi...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to make use of DRI with a Matrox g450.

I tried the vanilla XFree86 4.1 binaries but could never get X server to
show the XFree86-DRI extension. So I downloaded the DRI source and built
that pulling in the Matrox HAL library and following the DRI compilation
instructions.

Now at least when I start the X server it triggers the loading of the
mga.o kernel module and shows all the expected extensions from xdpyinfo:

GLX
SGI-GLX
XFree86-DRI
(others omitted)

but still when I run glxinfo it shows:

OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2                   

(ldd glxinfo shows the correct libraries i.e. the ones out of
/usr/X11R6-DRI being found)

My XF86Config file has a "DRI" section with just "Mode  0666" in it. My
X server never shows any of the "[drm]" initialization strings that the
DRI Users Guide says to expect.

How can I find out more information about what's going wrong?

I'm running on a dual Pentium III with Linux 2.4.3. Aside from not
getting DRI going the g450 seems to work fine.

I couldn't find any reports of similar problems so any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim.