DRI on an iBook2

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DRI on an iBook2

From: Ethan Blanton <hidden>
Date: 2001-08-05 02:57:09

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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Re: DRI on an iBook2

From: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date: 2001-08-04 21:09:59

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

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Re: DRI on an iBook2

From: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date: 2001-08-04 21:14:54

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:
quoted
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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Re: DRI on an iBook2

From: Michel Dänzer <hidden>
Date: 2001-08-04 22:14:14

Bastien Nocera wrote:
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)
They will either be updated or removed entirely in the end. There has been a
lot of discussion about compatibility and other technical problems on
dri-devel and lkml.


--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member

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