Re: Radeon 8500 XFree 4.3.0 dri

radeon (r100) and r200 have very different 3D engines.  you must have
somehow not compiled or not installed the r200 drm.  once you
find/build that it should work.

Alex

--- Vicchius <vicchius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi! I am trying to make Dri work with XFree4.3 (compiled from
> scratch, dri
> of the xfree4.3-src package) on my radeon 8500. I had already done
> this a
> bit of time ago, and now  I can't get it working anymore, on the same
> hardware and the same software...
> I compiled XFree86 with the host.def configured to build DRI and the
> drivers
> for "radeon". When I configure X for loading glx and dri, it starts
> normally, the logs report "Dri Enabled" but glxinfo do not find DRI.
> Setting
> the glxinfo debug variable to verbose as seen in the faq, I could
> find that
> the problem was that glxinfo was looking for a
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drm/r200_drv.so" while I had only r128_drv.so
> and
> radeon.so in that directory. This is quite strange since the first
> time I
> compiled X and got dri up and running, I did not have the need to
> check this
> folder. However, I made a symlink radeon.so -> r200_drv.so and now
> glxinfo
> finds DRI. But when I run glxgears (which at least now shows 5000fps,
> as
> opposed to the 200fps without dri) I get only a black window, but
> it's not
> crashed because it shows fps on the command line.
> What could it be wrong? I am surprised that I had all these problems,
> while
> the first time I compiled XFree4.3 it worked immediately... maybe I
> made
> something wrong in the host.def file needed for xfree compiling?
> (this and
> the kernel version from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 are the only things that
> changed
> from the previous compiling...)
> Thanks a lot, and sorry for my bad english...
> 
> Vicchius
> 
> PS  sorry if you receive this message 3 times... I sent it through 2
> email
> addresses for error (I did not remember what is the right one...)
> 
> 
> 
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