3D Acceleration

darin3200 · 06-27-2003, 08:56 PM

Like many without acceleration my 3D programs in linux are incredibly slow. What do I need to do to fix this? I have looked into OpenGl but can't find any links on there site to places to get it. Is there different software I should be using? Right now Mandrake Control Center has my video listed as an Sis 650/651/740.
Thanks.

contrasutra · 06-27-2003, 09:22 PM

go to download.sis.com and download the right driver. They have seperate drivers for 650/651/740 , so you should find out exactly what you have.

darin3200 · 06-27-2003, 10:05 PM

ok. I got the driver, now what?

contrasutra · 06-27-2003, 10:48 PM

install it. Follow the directions that come with it.

darin3200 · 06-28-2003, 07:58 AM

Instructions? I downloaded one file called sis_drv.o-402. And there support site only gives instructions for Windows.

darin3200 · 07-01-2003, 09:34 PM

Anyone? It is listed as a binary program and detailed info is a application/x-executable-binary. Whenever I try to excute it using sh it says it can't excute it.

DrOzz · 07-01-2003, 09:35 PM

change its permissions with chmod
something like chmod a+x sis-driver.bin

contrasutra · 07-01-2003, 10:01 PM

Its a kernel module. Read:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/

Look for the section on loading individual modules.

keating_5 · 07-01-2003, 11:37 PM

Interesting thing:

the driver in question sis_drv.o-402 and its friend sis_drv.o-410 are both compiled with GCC 2.x.x. So, if your kernel is compiled with GCC 3.x.x you won't be able to use the driver.

try "gcc --version" to see what version gcc you have.

Side note: Sis doesn't have linux drivers for their sis740 chipset. Grrrrrrrrrr.

Xiangbuilder · 07-02-2003, 01:30 AM

Can you give the link of the website where you download the driver?

keating_5 · 07-02-2003, 06:28 AM

http://download.sis.com/

Then select which chip model you have.

darin3200 · 07-02-2003, 08:48 AM

2.4.21-0.13mdk is my kernel. I tried gcc --version and get command not found.

keating_5 · 07-02-2003, 09:58 AM

well, since you're using MDK 9.1, your kernel was more than likely compiled with GCC 3.2.2.

In any case you can try to install the kernel modules.
Just run
"insmod sis_drv.o-402"

It will give you a warning and refuse to load the module if your kernel and the driver conflict.