How to get DRI to work with a Mach64 based card.
Hi, for months I have been trying to get DRI enabled on my Dell Inspiron 3800 and today I finally succeeded. I thought I would post the method I used to help others in the future.
First off I'm using Ubuntu but the solution should work for other DEB based distros. as well. I basically followed this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75393 except with several key changes. The author of the guide states that you should use the 386 kernel files for older chipsets, however I kept running into the error: config_x86_CMPXCHG needs to be enabled in the kernel when attempting to compile the drivers using a 386 kernel. But when I installed a 686 kernel (without hyperthreading) it worked! Also make sure to use the June or July 2005 versions of the DRI drivers from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/archive/ and not the most current. Not sure why but the new versions won't work. I hope that this helps somebody as it took me far to long to figure this solution out. Thanks. |
Kudos. Would you include kernel version and xorg version to get MachDri working. Thanx for contributing:).
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Sure, the Kernel version was 2.6.12-10-686 and Xorg was 6.8.2.
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DRI drivers
Thanks for the information. I will give it another try. I used
the latest versions of the drivers and they didn't work. |
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