[NBLUG/talk] Direct Render Support

Thu Nov 10 20:18:30 PST 2005

Ok, I went onto IRC today I got this all squared away.
It seems that 1024x768 at 24 bit pixel depth is just
too much for the IBM T22 (s3 Savage IX) as it has only
8 megs of VRAM.  I'm not sure how that math works out
(1024x768 [res] X 24 [pixel depth] = 18874368 [total
bits] / 8 = 2359296 [total bytes] / 1024 = 2304 [total
KB] so like 2.25 megs... I guess there's other stuff,
and then only 1.5 megs with 16 bits pixel depth) but
once Eric explained to me how to get the pixel depth
changed it booted fine, and I've got cogs-o-spinning
spinning spinning away.  It also set my video playback
straight (bonus!)  That DRI howto was helpful once I
figured it out.
Anyway, out of all of that rambling what I wanted
y'all to get was this:
Thanks a bunch.

Stephen

--- Stephen Cilley <hydro_mancer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Man!  I didn't have those headers installed right
> and
> it didn't work, and then when I read that howto it
> didn't go so badly.  Thank you so much.  The DRI
> driver installed just fine, looks like.
> However...
> *sigh*
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): Insufficient Videoram available for
> 3D
> -- Try a lower color depth or smaller desktop.  For
> integrated savages try increasing the videoram in
> the
> BIOS.
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): DRI isn't enabled
> (EE) SAVAGE(0): Direct rendering disabled
> So, looks like I won't be running any 3d aps
> whatsoever.
> >From what I'm seeing on some pages, though, there
> seems to be something seperate that might be a 2d
> hardware accelarted driver.  To tell you the truth I
> don't care much about actual 3d preformance, it's
> the
> 2d games and the video playback that really concerns
> me, so if there's some sort of a stripped down
> driver
> that has only the 2d hardware support, I'd like to
> give that a try.
> Anyone know of anything like that?
> Thank you.
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> --- thiessen at sonic.net wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for the xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log files.  I
> > took a look and didn't
> > see anything wrong in particular from them.  The
> DRI
> > module gets loaded
> > and the log file does not seem to register any
> > errors regarding Direct
> > Rendering.
> > 
> > I believe you can get 3D working if you just
> follow
> > the steps in this
> > howto.  The only item(s) you might want to change
> > would be to grab the
> > latest DRI snapshots, as noted on the 2nd page of
> > the howto.
> > 
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75393
> > 
> > This should make sure you have the kernel headers
> > and other code installed.
> > 
> > If you have problems with this, just go ahead and
> > post the details.
> > 
> > Justin
> > 
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > First off, my name is Stephen and last night was
> > my
> > > first meeting.  Thank you guys so much for doing
> > all
> > > of this, that was a lot of fun.  I learned a
> lot!
> > > At Mary's afterward Aaron helped me out by
> showing
> > me
> > > some stuff on my laptop and told me to post one
> > > particular error I had on the talk list, so here
> I
> > am.
> > > It goes like this: I'm running Ubuntu (BB) on my
> > IBM
> > > Thinkpad T22 which has got a video card called
> the
> > S3
> > > Savage IX-8 which is an AGP2x card with 8 megs
> of
> > VRAM
> > > and everything you'd expect with that generation
> > of
> > > video card.  The X.org driver seems to be
> working
> > > alright but I've got no direct render support. 
> So
> > I
> > > need some help with that.
> > > When I lspci it looks like this:
> > > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.
> > > 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
> > > So I was so fired up last night thinking about
> > what
> > > Aaron had shown me that I spent about 3 hours
> last
> > > night trying to do this myself (for the pride of
> > it,
> > > y'know.)  Mistake.  Unfortunately I don't even
> > have
> > > the knowledge to use what I've found online. 
> But
> > I
> > > have found stuff, and I was hoping maybe one of
> > you
> > > could explain to me what it means and how to use
> > it.
> > > Ok, what I found was that the only way to make
> the
> > > direct render go (as far as I've seen) is with
> > > something called "DRI" found at
> > > http://dri.freedesktop.org
> > > I tried installing one of their snapshots, but
> I'm
> > > afraid I really have no idea what's going on. 
> It
> > > looks like I get through the common portion of
> the
> > > install alright, but when I get to the Savage
> bit
> > I
> > > get some error about not having the kernel
> script.
> > > When I tried to work my way through their
> > > troubleshooting section I couldn't get very far
> > and I
> > > don't really understand why.
> > > Maybe all of that isn't very useful, but I did
> > find
> > > two success stories that probably will be:
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml (I
> > don't
> > > understand a lot of what they're saying! "ls -l
> > > /usr/src/linux" doesn't give me the result they
> > seem
> > > to be expecting.)
> > > and
> > >
> >
>
http://probo.probo.com/pipermail/savage40/2004-November/thread.html#169
> > > (second thread titled "What am I missing?" is
> > followed
> > > through until the device is working, but again I
> > just
> > > don't understand what they're talking about.)
> > > So it would be great if any of you could give me
> > some
> > > guidance.  I really appreciate everything you
> guys
> > do.
> > >  Next months meeting looks like something I'll
> > > understand a lot more easily. ^_^
> > > Thank you,
> > > Stephen Cilley
> > >
> > >
> > >
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