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

[J Sloan <jjs@toyota.com>]

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:56:05PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
>
> > In my case, that meant nuking mesa from my system and
> > letting Linux use what was left, which got me back the good
> > accelerated performance - you may choose a less drastic
> > option. I don't see any breakage from the absence of mesa.
>
> 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 -

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.

I have been using the kernel drm all along.

BTW I am using the X server from 3dfx.com -

jjs

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