X.org 6.8 upgrade - glxinfo with fglrx driver crashes X ?

[Osho GG]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:54:25 -0700, Ian Romanick <idr at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Osho GG wrote:
> 
> > I just updated to X.org 6.8 using SuSE 9.1's RPMs. I have ATI Mobility
> > FireGL2 graphics card. If I use radeon driver with 6.8, direct
> > rendering is disabled and render acceleration is disabled as well. If
> > I enable composite acceleration it is extremely slow. xcompmgr is
> > extremely slow.
> 
> Right.  That chip is based on the R300 architecture, and there is no 3D
> acceleration in the open-source drivers.  You aren't using a Thinkpad
> T41p by any chance, are you? ;)
> 

Good guess :). I am using Thinkpad T42p, which I think uses the same
graphics chip as T41p.

> > I tried using ATI's latest (3.12) drivers to enable 3d acceleration.
> > If dri is enabled then doing glxinfo immediately crashes X server. If
> > I disabled dri with ATI's drivers - well then I don't see much of a
> > point of using it.
> 
> I'm also seeing this with ATI's drivers and an aging Radeon 8500LE.
> Anyone have any idea what the problem might be?  The drivers are built
> for XFree86 4.3.  Was there some internal API change since then that's
> causing the problem?
> 

Another question, maybe slightly unrelated. Once ATI releases drivers
compatible with X.org 6.8.1 that supports 3d acceleration - does that
mean that Render would also be accelerated? Could someone please
enlighten the ignorant me as to what is the difference between 3d
acceleration and Render acceleration?

thanks,
Osho