DRI on Radeon cards under YDL 4.0

[Cian Duffy]

Sorry, nevermind, rebooted the laptop entirely and it works now. Don't
know why restarting X alone didn't work.

Glxgears 814FPS now. TuxRacer playable.

Cian

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:47:18 +0000, Cian Duffy <myob87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> A lot of the Debian and Gentoo iBook howtos suggest that 3D
> acceleration is possible with DRI on Radeon powered laptops. I've
> followed the instructions - I have a fully working X config file,
> giving me full colour and full 2D accleration from the Radeon as a
> result, DRI is enabled in the X config file and the radeon drm driver
> is modprobed in. However, glxgears still gives me around 115FPS,
> compared to around 850 as one of the howtos suggested. So obviously
> DRI isn't working. Grep'ing the X log files show no mention of DRI
> 
> So, does the shipped X server or kernel not support drm/DRI in some
> way? I'm using the kernel Owen posted to the list this morning.
> 
> Its not a major issue, I'd just like to be able to indulge in TuxRacer
> at a usable speed sometimes...
> 
> Cian
>