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From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@fuckmpaa.com>
To: J Sloan <jjs@toyota.com>
Cc: "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, newbie@xfree86.org
Subject: Re: [OT]: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:11:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010109171107.A1470@lightside.2y.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A5A087F.F1C45380@goingware.com> <3A5A4585.5036A11C@toyota.com> <20010109005707.A1347@lightside.2y.net> <3A5A5D4B.7E9D5183@toyota.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A5A5D4B.7E9D5183@toyota.com>; from J Sloan on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:37:32PM -0800

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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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-10  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-08 18:35 DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5 Michael D. Crawford
2001-01-08 22:06 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-01-08 22:55 ` khromy
2001-01-08 22:56 ` [OT]: " J Sloan
2001-01-08 23:57   ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-01-09  0:37     ` J Sloan
2001-01-09 16:11       ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa [this message]
2001-01-10  7:41         ` xircom_tulip + NFS hanging interface Pau
2001-01-09  8:20   ` [OT]: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5 Alan Olsen

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