DRI on an iBook2

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Sun Aug 5 07:14:54 EST 2001


Hmm,

I forgot to ask. Does anyone know when the DRM drivers would be updated
in the main kernel tree ? Ben, would you include that in your tree ?
(given that what's in right now is useless on any PPC/Pmac machines anyway)

Cheers

Bastien Nocera wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On PPC, we can't use AGP GART because of the lack of documentation for
> the chipsets Apple uses on its motherboards. But we have PCI GART.
>
> Grab the DRM modules sources here: http://xfree86.org/~alanh/
>
> Compile, insmod r128.o, modify your XF86Config to include the dri,
> glcore and glx modules, and use 16bpp by default (the iBook2 doesn't
> have enough video ram to do OpenGL at 1024x768 at 24bpp).
>
> Start X-Windows and you should be set ;)
>
> glxinfo's first lines will tell you if you got DRI to work.
>
> Cheers
>
> PS: If you want to see my XF86Config-4, tell me, I'll post it on my site.
>
> Ethan Blanton wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I see on the DRI project (http://dri.sourceforge.net/) page that the
>> ATI Rage128 Mobility chipset is supported by XFree86 DRI.  However,
>> I'm not having a whole lot of luck getting anything working on my
>> iBook2.  I notice that I *can* turn on the kernel option for the DRM
>> and select support for the ATI Rage128.  My question to this list
>> before I spend too much time beating my head against this is whether
>> or not DRM and/or DRI for the ATI chipsets are supported on LinuxPPC.
>>
>> Thanks...
>> Ethan
>>
>
>


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