Re: [Dri-devel] experience using dri

[Michel <da...@re...>]

Pat Ritchie wrote:

> > Yeah. I have a Matrox G400 + athlon 750 + Xfree 4.0.1 + 2.4.0test5 and
> > irongate chipset. Sometimes after playing with OpenGL stuff it stops
> > the direct rendering. I cannot always reproduce it. If i start
> > glxinfo it says indirect rendering. (normally it says
> > G400 direct rendering). Maybe an application doesn't release
> > it's resources ? I don't know. How can I help ?
> 
> I have a similar problem, sometimes when I first get into X and run
> glxinfo says i'm doing Indirect rendering. It seems to always happen the
> first time I after I reboot... here is the line from my log where it
> fails to load the Kernel module.
> 
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2176+624: 2800
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "mga"
> (EE) MGA(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit Failed
> 
> System is a G400 Max, k63-450, asus p5a, kernel 2.4-test2 mga.o is in
> /lib/modules/2.4-test2/misc

I experience the same with the r128 driver on PPC. (Phew, not a PPC specific
problem :)


> Once I restart X the module loads fine and the DRI works great, I have
> been testing all kinds of apps and will post my findings as soon as i'm
> done.

For me, the module is in fact already loaded when the server runs the first
time. Please check with lsmod.


Michel


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