[Dri-users] redhat 7.2-beta and Voodoo3

[Jeffrey M E. <jei...@cs...>]

I've just installed redhat 7.2-beta and I'm happy to say that my pci 16meg
Voodoo 3000 works great.  I didn't need to tweak anything and I get
the following running the gears demo.  Sure is nice to see that 3-D
acceleration on linux is starting to get idiot proof.  Nice work people.
Redhat 7.2-beta includes xfree-4.1.0 and mesa 3.4.2
6750 frames in  5.000 seconds = 1350.000 FPS
9053 frames in  5.000 seconds = 1810.600 FPS
9042 frames in  5.000 seconds = 1808.400 FPS
9061 frames in  5.000 seconds = 1812.200 FPS
9643 frames in  5.000 seconds = 1928.600 FPS
9780 frames in  5.000 seconds = 1956.000 FPS
I even gave tuxracer a whirl which runs smooth as silk.

However, I did encounter some problems trying to run dynamic blender.
This is the ouput I get from trying to run dynamic blender 2.14.
X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  55 (X_CreateGC)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  51
  Current serial number in output stream:  59

I checked the blender list and people recommend reinstalling X because
the mesa rpm writes over the newer libGL.so.1 that X installs.  It would
sure be nice if Mesa and X didn't contain competing libs.  Any thoughts on
this?
   thanks for your time,
     jeff