Hi, Thanks for mentioning Thomas Winischhofer's site in your reply. Do you have an address? Does Alan Hourihane also have a site? Nick On Friday 31 May 2002 10:12 pm, luke biddell wrote: > I have been unable to get acceleration working for my > sis630 card using the sis driver, I wonder if any of > you can help. > > I have a suse8 install and have read on various web > sites that when you install it, it will configure X > for 3d. I upgraded my higrade A1300 laptop from suse > 7.3 and it only enabled stock frame buffer support. > The man page for sis says that acceleration is > supported. > > I've had a look a Thomas Winischhofer's site for the > sis card and i have all the required components(sis, > sisfb, sis_dri, sis_drv) although they are not the > latest versions. I load the glx and dri modules in > XF86Config as instructed. > > I don't think I have the correct glx modules as if I > look at the XFree log I see this > > (II) LoadModule: "glx" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so > (EE) LoadModule: Module glx does not have a > glxModuleData data object. > (II) UnloadModule: "glx" > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so > (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (invalid module, 0) > > and subsequently when dri tries to load I get this > > (II) SIS(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture > (XAA) > Screen to screen bit blits > Solid filled rectangles > 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles > Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion > Solid Lines > Dashed Lines > Offscreen Pixmaps > Setting up tile and stipple cache: > 32 128x128 slots > 32 256x256 slots > 16 512x512 slots > (==) SIS(0): Backing store disabled > (==) SIS(0): Silken mouse enabled > (II) SIS(0): Using SiS630 HW Xv > (II) SIS(0): direct rendering disabled > (WW) SIS(0): Option "CalcAlgorithm" is not used > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is > unresolved! > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is > unresolved! > > > Has anyone any experience of this or know anything > that might help > > Thanks > > Luke > > --- Nicholas Baxter-Jones > <n.smith@insight.telinco.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > > Just wanted to share my experiences of upgrading to > > 4.2.0. > > > > I installed SuSe Linux 7.2 (X 4.0.3) and upgraded it > > to 4.1.0 a few months ago. This was fairly > > traumatic as I was new to Linux and (I think) I > > compiled from source. Nevertheless, it resulted in > > a stable platform that (with KDE 3.0) is fast and > > responsive. I was particulally impressed that my > > monitor can now display 1024×768 (after a lot of > > tweaking), whereas Windows can only manage 800×600. > > > > I have now installed Mandrake 8.2 (X 4.2.0) and I > > can boot into either distribution, with the same > > kernel (or their pre-compiled kernels). > > > > I was a little dissappointed to find the screen was > > noticably _less_ responsive with X 4.2.0 -- more > > tweaking. In the 'readme's I found that the sis > > driver had been improved, and XAA had been > > completely reimplemented; and the logs showed > > another difference. > > > > (II) SIS(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture > > (XAA) > > Screen to screen bit blits > > Solid filled rectangles > > --- 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles > > --- Solid Lines > > +++ Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines > > Setting up tile and stipple cache: > > --- 32 128x128 slots > > +++ 16 128x128 slots > > --- 10 256x256 slots > > +++ 4 256x256 slots > > > > I assume this is due to a limitation of memory > > space, but I don't have any extra modules (that I'm > > aware of) taking up VRAM. Are there extra features > > implemented that need their own slice of VRAM? Can > > these be disabled? Would I get extra > > slots/rectangles in return? > > > > If the problem is memory constraints, is there any > > way to use the other half of the 8MB on my card, > > that is lieing idle, or a MB or 2 of system memory? > > (it is AGP). > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
