Enabling Direct Rendering

[nahsan]

Assalam ALaykum,

I have switched over from FC3 to Slackware 10.1. In FC3 DRI was enabled, I have Intel 845gevb2 motherboard. But I guess DRI is not enabled in slackware. Tux Racer was running very smoothly in FC3, but it is damn slow in Slackware 10.1. I have tried adding Load 'DRI ' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to enable DRI. I know DRI is supported for i810 cards but can't seem to get it running.

Nabeel Ahsan

P.S. I have downloaded Wolf 3d, and I really need to get it working!

[lambda]

wolf 3d isn't a free download...

anyway, your best bet is to buy a cheap nvidia card. a gf 5200 is around rs 3,300. it'll be a lot faster than i810.

[nahsan]

Well FYI Wolf - Enery Territory is freely available for both windows and linux !
Furher my i845 adapter was working perfectly under FC3, I know for sure that I need to do some configuration to enable DRI.

Help Anyone ?

[lambda]

Well FYI Wolf - Enery Territory is freely available for both windows and linux !

that's a different product from wolf3d.

[jess]

Check your
# dmesg
if there is any problem reported regarding it. Note that it requires at least 32M videoRam, so the option in xorg.conf should be

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-buffering
Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support
Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure
Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions
Load "v4l" # Video4Linux
# Load "record" # X event recorder
# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
# Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler
# Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corp.|82865G Integrated Graphics D"
Driver "i810"
BoardName "Unknown"
VideoRam 32768
Option "XvMCSurfaces" "6"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


Check with
$ glxinfo
if DRI is enabled.

[syedbilalmasaud]

hi
download the latest module for 845gbv from sourceforge.net
and insert it in kernel
reboot teh system