[Mesa3d-users] fbdev/DRI misbehaving

[Keith O'C. <Kei...@cs...>]

Hi everyone,
I've been trying to get fbdev/DRI working as explained on 
http://www.mesa3d.org/fbdev-dri.html, but have run into some problems. 
I'm using a fresh install of Fedora Core 4 (2.6.11 kernel) with a Radeon 
9200 AGP.

I've followed the instructions on the above page and compiled both drm 
and Mesa (linux-solo) from the latest cvs versions. This all went 
(relatively) smoothly and so I installed the proper modules and then ran 
sample_server, followed by miniglxtest. The problem is that the only 
function that seems to be having any effect is glClear - it clears the 
right section of the console to the color specified by glClearColor, but 
then any geometry glBegin/glEnd calls don't seem to do anything. I've 
run a simple app with the GL code on my Windows machine and I get a 
rotating quad just as I should, so the code is sound - it's just not 
doing what it should in the fbdev/DRI environment. There are no errors 
in any logs I've checked (not even any glGetError()s), so I'm at a bit 
of a loss as to what to do next. I would have expected either everything 
to work, or nothing!

Does anyone have experience with this sort of problem? I'd appreciate 
any pointers or suggestions as to what the problem might be.

Thanks,
Keith

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Keith O'Conor
Image Synthesis Group
Computer Science Department
University of Dublin, Trinity College
Ireland