On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:50:40PM -0500, John wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:49:19 -0500, btt@nethouse.com wrote:
>
> -> Well, I looked at the logs and don't have any certain ideas. But
> one -> thing I noticed is that you've got DRI enabled. Maybe try it
> without
> -> DRI. like comment out:
> ->
> -> Load "dri"
> ->
> -> and try starting up X again. A shot in the dark, but it may work.
>
> If you shoot this good in the dark, you'll be deadly with the lights
> on.
Heh :)
> I just commented out the Load "dri" in XF86Config (I assume that's
> where I was supposed to do it).
>
> I now have a blank screen with an X in the middle on VC 7, and
> another blank screen with an X on VC 8. I moved the mouse (and the
> X) up to the corner on VC 8 so that I could be sure that I was
> really seeing two different displays.
>
> I don't know what, if anything, I may have broken by taking out DRI,
> and I don't know if I can put a desktop on each VC, etc, so I won't
> send out the party invitations just yet. But this is definitely a
> step forward!
It sounds like it is working OK. High five! I don't think anything is
technically broken by disabling DRI. it enables hardware 3d
acceleration in the cards that DRI supports.
All of my experiences with DRI have been pretty iff-y at best. Either
my motherboard was causing crashes or my card wasn't supported, or
the card was supported but I had to go download a patch somewhere and
recompile the kernel. Heh.. At one time I had it so that X would start
and the screen would go completely wacko, then the power supply would
sound like it is being drained, then the computer would reboot. That's
the last I saw of DRI!
Legend has it, though, that once it is working properly it
will increase 3d framerate by like 600+%, depending on the card's
capabilities.
> Now I have to play with it starting from scratch again, and see what
> happens, but I just wanted to give you this interim report.
>
> (Direct Rendering Infrastructure? So if I disable DRI, does that
> mean slower screen updates?)
I don't think it will affect 2d speed.
Good Luck... keep us posted.
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