[ILUG] GLX accelleration of a matrox G200 anyone?

[Conor Wynne]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 16:48, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Conor Wynne wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been trying to get 3D accelleration on my G200, but so far nada:
> 
> > dmesg reports:
> > [drm] Initialized mga 3.1.0 20021029 on minor 0: Matrox Graphics, Inc.
> > MGA G200 AGP
> >
> > What am I missing?
> 
> How much memory is on the card?

8MB

> 
> Look at the X startup logs, you might see "DRI disabled" if you're 
> running at a res/colour-depth that doesnt leave enough for room for 
> DRI.

I have just sorted it actually. Prionnsias suggested the obvious (off
list for some reason), i.e.: grep EE in the Xfree logs. 

Once I did so, I copped on straight away!
I editied XF86config-4, removed the Load "glx" line, restarted X still
in 1280*1024*16bit and its working. 

(it was trying to load the NVIDIA glx!!!!!!!!)

I have just ran enemy territory (640*480*16 bit*lowest detail) and it
seems fine. Its _barely_ playable, but will be good enough for my tests.
> DRI worked for me on my G200 up until I bought my Radeon 9200 - but 
> I'd have to start a second server 1024x768 @ depth 16 to have enough 
> video ram over to have DRI working on my 8MB card.
> 
> regards,

It will be dog slow as glxgears only reports 360FPS, which is _brutal_
compared to the gforce3's 3600FPS. But its purely to stress test the agp
bus. 

Thanks guys - I obviously do not understand the difference between DRI
and GLX - I'll google. 

-- 
Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande