Re: [OT]: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@fuckmpaa.com>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:37:32PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> > Well, the real problem is that (at least Voodoo3) DRI didn't work _before_
> > with the "latest" test and pre kernels, and X < 4.0.2 (unless there was some
> > combination I didn't manage to find) even if it was using the correct
> > library.

> That's odd, perhaps we should compare notes -

Seeing that it _finally_ worked (that qbert spongies xscreensaver thing is
hilarious:) I cleaned up all the logs, along with the mesas and glides
builds .. so right now all I have is a working setup (which I can't complain
about)

> I have been getting good accelerated 3D from my voodoo3
> since around 2.3.36, except for one brief period around
> 2.3.99-something where some critical kernel code changed.

IIRC I started trying to make it work around 2.3.99 but wasn't as fortunate
as you since as mentioned it just refused to work.
 
> BTW I am using the X server from 3dfx.com -

Ah, that could have something to do with it, because I always used the
(mirrorerd) xfree86.org binaries.
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