Experimental options

Vladimir Dergachev volodya at mindspring.com
Sun Dec 12 11:31:48 PST 2004


>>>
>>> It should definitely fall back to indirect rendering, just like when
>>> there's a problem loading any of the existing 3D drivers.
>>
>> Well, I have just committed the code, protected by X_R300_DRM option - if
>> not enabled (which is default) the DRM is not used in any way.
>
> The option is superfluous IMHO, just enable it.
>
>> I double-checked (removing r300_dri.so from /usr/X11/lib/modules/dri) and
>> I still get glxgears lockup. Also, glxinfo returns info as for direct
>> rendering driver - as, I suppose, it should.
>
> No, only the DRI driver has this information, so it can only do that if
> libGL can load the driver. Set LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose to find out where
> it's picking it up from.

You were very right.. There was a stupid misprint that I overlooked and 
the driver name was set to r200 rather than r300.

The option is now gone, and fix has been committed to CVS.

                        best

                          Vladimir Dergachev

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