direct rendering: No

schneidz · 08-22-2005, 12:25 AM

[redhat 9] I have an ati 9600 and my glxinfo returns no direct rendering. [\redhat 9]

[schneidz@lq]$ glxgears
71 frames in 10.0 seconds = 7.100 FPS -fullscreen

[schneidz@lq]$ uname -a
Linux hyper-nmv1so2wb 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

i have no 'xorg.conf' (is that supposed to replace 'XF86Config-4'?)

how do i enable dri?

thanks,

heema · 08-22-2005, 02:08 AM

yes xorg is the new X server

you should download and install the ati drivers from

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27

schneidz · 08-22-2005, 08:42 AM

thanks heema, but first i would need to install xorg:

what is the least painful way... (do i need to uninstall x?)

schneidz · 08-23-2005, 07:21 AM

i dl'd this file 'X11R6.8.2-src.tar.bz2' and did 'make World' as root. this is how it errored:

Code:

> mkfontdir.1x-html && mv -f mkfontdir.1x-html mkfontdir.1x.html
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/schneidz/xorg/xc/programs/mkfontdir'
making all in programs/mkfontscale...
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/schneidz/xorg/xc/programs/mkfontscale'
gcc -m32 -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef   -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config  -I../../exports/include/X11
-I../.. -I../../exports/include   -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE  -D_GNU_SOURCE   -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO   -DFREETYPE2  -DXFREE86_FT2    -c -o mkfontscale.o mkfontscale.c
mkfontscale.c: In function `doDirectory':
mkfontscale.c:859: `BDF_PropertyRec' undeclared (first use in this function)
mkfontscale.c:859: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mkfontscale.c:859: for each function it appears in.)
mkfontscale.c:859: parse error before "prop"
mkfontscale.c:860: warning: implicit declaration of function `FT_Get_BDF_Property'
mkfontscale.c:860: `prop' undeclared (first use in this function)
mkfontscale.c:861: `BDF_PROPERTY_TYPE_ATOM' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[4]: *** [mkfontscale.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/schneidz/xorg/xc/programs/mkfontscale'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/schneidz/xorg/xc/programs'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/schneidz/xorg/xc'
make[1]: *** [World] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/schneidz/xorg/xc'
make: *** [World] Error 2

i also tired it as ' make WORLDOPTS=-k World' but when i tried to 'make install' it hangs forever on:

Code:

 
../../exports/bin/fc-cache: "usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc":

can someone tell me how to fix this. i am using redhat 9.
[schneidz@lq]$ uname -r
2.4.20-8

thanks much,
schneidz

J.W. · 08-23-2005, 04:05 PM

Moved to Software by request -- J.W.

schneidz · 08-25-2005, 07:41 PM

i was able to install xorg by first installing 'freetype-2.1.10'. according to the docs xfree86 uses its own version of freetype libs that are incompatable with the upgrade.

unfortunately after all that i still don't have dri enabled. can someone suggest something?

Code:

[schneidz@lq]$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
[schneidz@lq]$ glxgears
71 frames in 11.0 seconds =  6.455 FPS