Hi Nick Here's the address for Thomas' site http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml I had a look for a site for Alan but didn't find anything apart from mailing list archives. Do you have any ideas regarding my problem???? Cheers Luke --- Nicholas Baxter-Jones <n.smith@insight.telinco.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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