From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B6C65CE.708@hadess.net> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 22:14:54 +0100 From: Bastien Nocera MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: DRI on an iBook2 References: <20010804225709.A861@localhost.localdomain> <3B6C64A7.9040005@hadess.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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@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 >> > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/