Direct Rendering Infrastructure DRI on VIA\S3 Savage

BlackCell · 10-16-2004, 06:20 AM

Hi There,

I was so happy to find this thread! I did everything as described and the driver compiled perfectly. However when I start X, the screen flickers, for a moment, I can see the Gui and than blink! it goes back to console leaving me with around 10 of error messages and they all end with:

.../usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o is unresolved!

I have compiled in the kernel

AGP Support
AGP for VIA Support
DRI Support

I run the latest X Version on a debian unstable distro with kernel 2.6.8.1, the snapshots for DRI are from 15/10/2004

Has anyone encountered this before? And should you need additional info or logs please let me know and I will post it. I really want to play Tuxracer.. ;-)

Tx for any help in advance

/bin/bash · 10-20-2004, 08:07 AM

BlackCell
Could you post the results of this:

grep EE /var/log/XFree86.0.log
or
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Depends of if you use XFree86 or Xorg.

wondering_jew · 10-22-2004, 01:51 AM

Well, I gave up, bought an nvidia pci vid card and am now enjoying tux racer, good luck to the rest of you

bobterri · 10-23-2004, 09:44 PM

Well wondering_jew I am glad you got Tux Racer running, but the fact that you had to go out and buy another video card is a shame. It's not like a prosavage card is so obscure! Why does it take a major ordeal and trying and trying and sometimes never getting things working with Linux. It's one of those days that I think maybe Windows isn't that bad.

Poprocks · 10-30-2004, 01:57 AM

Well I got it working (I've actually had it going for a little while) and it seems to be pretty good, considering it's rather experimental. Which brings me to my next point: for me, it's not even worth the instability -- using DRI works for a bit, but when I play a game like bzFlag for a little bit, my computer gets hard-locked, and the only way out is to do a hard reboot.

Again, I know this is an experimental driver, but do you guys have any suggestions on improving stability? I'd like to use it but don't want to deal with major stability issues.

azeemarif · 10-31-2004, 06:40 PM

Hard-lock!!! I never faced any problem like that with this video driver....

starfire83 · 11-01-2004, 05:45 PM

i've done everything in this thread, have DRI, AGP and VIA AGP comppiled into my kernel and i still don't get DRI, even under root. what gives?

diego_ares · 11-13-2004, 07:05 PM

sorry my inglish is bad...

the problem is...

first method

in make install

errors

Code:

installing in lib/Xv...
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/build/xc/lib/Xv'
rm -f Xv.o unshared/Xv.o
Xv.c:232: warning: redundant redeclaration of `SyncHandle' in same scope
.............................oders errors and warnings............................................
Xv.c:1117: error: parse error before ')' token
Xv.c:1118: error: `wire' undeclared (first use in this function)
Xv.c:1120: error: `False' undeclared (first use in this function)
Xv.c:1127: warning: implicit declaration of function `_XSetLastRequestRead'
Xv.c:1127: error: `xGenericReply' undeclared (first use in this function)
Xv.c:1127: error: parse error before ')' token
Xv.c:1138: error: parse error before ')' token
Xv.c:1150: error: `True' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [Xv.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/build/xc/lib/Xv'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/build/xc/lib'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/build/xc'
make: *** [install] Error 2

and not load dri... i installed sources of linux 2.4.26 in mandrake 10 and not rule DRI...

second metod...-

# Get a snapshot from http://www.freedesktop.org/~dri/snapshots/
NOTE: You must get a common- package as well as the savage snapshot.
# Un-pack both packages in the same directory, this will create a directory dripkg with all the necessary files.

i see the guide step by step

, i download, uncompress, and install and not rule X

the errors

.../usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o is unresolved!

i download diferent files and not rule X errors similars in kernel 2.6 and 2.4 =

sorry for my inglish

perdon pero mi ingles no es muy bueno...

please help

thanks

blubz · 11-18-2004, 04:51 AM

should I recompile the full mesa lib with XOrg to make de 3d accel working ?? (Mesa package seems already include in the Xorg 6.8 sources) ?

azeemarif · 11-18-2004, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by blubz
should I recompile the full mesa lib with XOrg to make de 3d accel working ?? (Mesa package seems already include in the Xorg 6.8 sources) ?

I have used the method mentioned in post #40 of this thread and never had to compile mesa source.

I have used the method, mentioned above, on various distros and with both, Xfree86 and Xorg, X servers.

Youssef_C · 11-19-2004, 06:29 PM

Can anyone upload or send me the snapshot by email , the website was hacked. I want it before Sunday 21 2004

blubz · 11-20-2004, 12:18 PM

Hmm yes is there any mirror to download the common and savage packages from post #40 ? the freedesktop server seems having problems.

blubz · 11-21-2004, 08:02 AM

freedesktop is up and it seems that snapshots are know available at http://freedesktop.org/dri/snapshots/

azeemarif · 11-21-2004, 06:49 PM

One more thing I'd like to add here. Sometimes because of the XFree86 (or Xorg) build, the latest snapshots of "common" and "savage" modules do not work.

It happened with me. After reading the XFree86 log I realized that my XFree86 build was older and could not understand ABI of new "common" and "savage" modules.

Solution: simple. select a little bit older snapshot instead of the latest one. In my case, any snapshot image taken after September 2004 does not work.

bobterri · 11-21-2004, 09:14 PM

azeemarif,

Could you explain how it did not work? Were there error messages like in my posts or was it different?