I have a Compaq Armada M700 with a ATI Rage Mobility 8meg graphics card, 128 meg ram, and a 633mhz PIII. I can play video (mpeg, avi, etc) fine, but when it comes to openGL games such as Tuxracer, Chromium, or Quake III i get about 1 frame a second. My openGL screensavers do work though which I find odd.
Running RH 9.0 glxinfo returns this:

name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on 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

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2a 24 dc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

So I checked my XF86Config and DRI, GLX, and GLCore are all set to load and my /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows that DRI is loading. What am I missing? I've been searching the net for hours and cannot find anything that helps or points me in the right direction.

name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".


If that's popping up... then the user you're running X as may not have rights to the DRI device, what's the DRI section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file say?

Cheers,

Finegan

What kernel are you using? RH9 uses XF86 4.3. This is not compatible with the version of DRI in the stable kernel tree. (1.1.1 provided, 1.3 required) This can be fixed by building new modules with Version 1.3.
Availiable from http://dri.sourceforge.net and http://gatos.sourceforge.net/
It can be a bit confusing to do it, and you will need to rebuild your kernel. I think there's a howto on the gatos site.
I had this problem when I built XF86 4.3. I wrote a howto on it, but I think its pretty specific to Radeon cards so it won't be much help.