The problem is that everything else works except DRI. Currently if I run glxgears with a window size of about 1200x800, I get 9 FPS. "glxinfo | grep-i direct\ rendering" returns: "direct rendering: No"

I'm running Slackware current on IBM Thinkpad T22 with Savage/IX-MV rev 19. I'm using Xorg X Window System version 6.8.1 (17 Sept. 2004). I have installed the newest snapshots of core and savage/dri stuff from freedesktop.org /~fxkuehl/snapshots/. I also tried couple of older versions - they behave identically.

I have the following modules loaded (succesfully according to dmesg):
savage
agpgart

I am running in 1280x1024x16bit, as resolutions higher than that make the savage driver to state that I don't have enough video memory for 3D.

My xorg.conf contains the following definitions (among others):
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "glx"
Load "dri"

Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

X loads the modules OK and reports the hardware correctly, but says in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(II) SAVAGE(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+872: 3072
(WW) SAVAGE(0): Direct rendering has been disabled.
(EE) SAVAGE(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
(EE) SAVAGE(0): DRI isn't enabled

...why DRI isn't enabled? What can I do to fix this?

Thank you VERY MUCH in advance!

A Savage IX-MV getting 9 FPS...
I hate to say it but for that card this may be an alltime record speed
heh...
Anyway... um...

You can't load glx and dri at the same time for starters...

Thank you for your suggestions, but ...

1. Removing glx causes additional errors:
Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!

2. The page which you gave a link to contains a XF86Config-4 in which both dri and glx are loaded.

Also, all OpenGL applications stopped working because of a missing GLX extension.

Oh well. I just saw that page with someone having it working. Slackware may be at fault, have you tried any other distro's yet?

On that page the author states that "DRI is (unfortunately) not supported".

Fortunately that is no longer true according to DRI wiki.

Changing distro is out of the question (and if I did change the disto and the card worked, I wouldn't really know what fixed it...I wouldn't learn anything)

Oops... I musta pasted the wrong link for ya. I had three windows open with different sites and that wasn't the one I wanted to give you. Lol...

Great... now that I've cleared the history and cache and redone the internet settings and upgraded.... how do I find that right page again.

Downloading and installing latest (DRI-enabled) X.org snapshots solved the problem.

DRI is now enabled and I get almost 100 times the FPS I did before.

hi! i have this problem... equal as you... how did you solve? where did you get the lastest snapshot?

thanks for your help

Snapshots are available here -> http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/

Instructions are available here -> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download


PS. I just noticed today that gradients don't work with my Savage card when using DRI - if you have similar card and get it working, please post a message here.

Hey,

I have a Savage IX 8MB video chip in this IBM Thinkpad T21 aswell, and I'm also having problems with 3D acceleration & DRI.

Quake 3 is like 1fps and I think it's due to no DRI. I run Slackware 10.0 now upgraded to Slackware Current just yesterday.

I've downloaded both the common & savage snapshots from the site Arttu supplied and installed witht the install scripts in order common to savage, to seeing no difference.

I'm guessing I didn't do something, because "glxinfo | grep -i direct\ rendering" gave me a no

(II) SAVAGE(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+284: 2484
(WW) SAVAGE(0): Direct rendering has been disabled.
(EE) SAVAGE(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
(EE) SAVAGE(0): DRI isn't enabled

That's also in my log file.

I hope you can help me, thanks!

-MistaED

Installing Savage and Common drivers is not enough - currently you have all the drivers in place but your Xorg is not DRI enabled.

You must install new (DRI enabled) Xorg and modules. They can be found from the extras -location if I remember correctly.

Snapshots were updated just couple of days ago (fixes flat shading and segfault issues with savage drivers) - when you get the stuff working, everything should work very well.

Hey thanks Arttu, I didn't realise that the X.org patch was required because I have the latest 6.8.1. I also compiled a 2.6.10 kernel in which also helped.

I put the modules and Xorg in the spots it wanted and now DRI works which the log file says, but X ceases to show up, just sits there as a blank screen. And the X.org log says there's no error

This sucks, have you got any suggestions?

Thanks again.

-MistaED

Do "modprobe savage" always before you "startx".

Xorg will hang up just like you described if you don't have the savage module loaded before you start X. I encountered the same problem, too.

Thank you once again Arttu! X boots perfectly and Quake 3 is going off at like 60fps with 512x384 res! Very happy

-MistaED