3D acceleration with an older voodoo3
 

I have an old voodoo3 and I am trying to get it to work with DRI. I am not sure what is missing here though. When I run glxinfo I get the folllowing.

gerard@turgid:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

Now, when I restart X this is what I get in the message log. Any idea what the problem could be.


Feb 15 17:29:09 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 17:29:09 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
Feb 15 17:37:47 turgid kernel: kudzu: numerical sysctl 1 23 is obsolete.
Feb 15 17:38:40 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 17:38:40 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
Feb 15 17:39:01 turgid kernel: kudzu: numerical sysctl 1 23 is obsolete.
Feb 15 17:39:03 turgid kernel: kudzu: numerical sysctl 1 23 is obsolete.
Feb 15 17:39:09 turgid kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Feb 15 17:39:18 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 17:39:18 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
Feb 15 17:39:18 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 17:39:18 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
Feb 15 17:39:32 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 17:39:32 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
Feb 15 17:39:32 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 17:39:32 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
Feb 15 17:41:55 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 17:41:55 turgid kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.

well i don't know what steps you took in order to try and get 3d accel going on your card, but i am going to refer you to the below link
http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/half....5.html#AEN119

its a section in the half-life howto, but it shows a way of getting the voodoo 3 working using glide, cause of the fact they state that DRI is slower in performance ...
so maybe try these steps .

I actually sort of got it all working now. The only thing is that direct rendering isnt turning on. I attached my glxinfo

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess