[Openchrome-users] Mesh notebook ... success & failure

[Peter Lord]

Benno Schulenberg wrote, On 03/28/2006 06:48 PM:
> Florent Piteau wrote:
>   
>> I've the same problem on an Gentoo/Amd64 : "3D driver doesn't
>> support visual xxx"
>>     
>
> Also see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6419 and 
> spyderous' comment at the end.
>
> Benno
>
>   

Well, I noticed that the gentoo folks had released a patch for
xorg-server, so I installed that today and definitely making progress ! 
So it looks like I was hit by the above issue.

glxinfo now gives :-

       visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
     id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    0x22 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
    0x23 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 None
    0x24 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
    0x25 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None

and glxgears runs ... but very slowly.  So, I know most are ahead of me
here, but getting glxgears to run at all is a big step forward !

But I also see from glxinfo :-

    direct rendering: No

:-(

Some further debug info :-

    $ dmesg | grep drm
    [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102


I see a lot of good looking VIA messages in Xorg.0.log, but then :-

    drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
    drmOpenDevice: Open failed

and, sure enough, I don't have anything in /dev/dri.

I'll have a dig around the email lists.

Cheers,

Pete