Mach64 Direct Rendering with X.Org 6.8.2

sw67 · 09-12-2006, 05:50 AM

I know it's an old card, but I'd like to get it to enable direct rendering on slackware 10.2 with X 6.8.2 and kernel 2.6.17.11.

I've built Mesa 6.4.2, and checked out the DRM CVS for mach64, and built it successfully - I can load drm and mach64 with modprobe, and it seems to work fine.
However, when I tell X to use it, it complains -

Code:

(EE) LoadModule: Module mach64 does not have a mach64ModuleData data object
(EE) Failed to load module "mach64" (invalid module, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Note that I copied mach64_drv.o into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers to allow X to find it.

I also tried building older versions of the mach64 drm, but they failed with an unrelated error (structure has no member named "count")

Any ideas? I've spent a fair few hours on this...

number22 · 09-12-2006, 11:19 PM

Don't waste your time, older rage (Mach64) wouldn't support DRI, unless you get rage pro and newer, and the later card needs renamed the driver r128, which can support DRI.

simopal6 · 11-08-2007, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sw67

I've built Mesa 6.4.2, and checked out the DRM CVS for mach64, and built it successfully - I can load drm and mach64 with modprobe, and it seems to work fine.

Can you explain how you checked out mach64 sources?