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
