[Long] Direct Rendering stopped on G400

Damien Elmes clug at repose.cx
Sun Dec 15 17:35:50 EST 2002


Anthony David <adavid at adavid.com.au> writes:

> Matthew Hawkins <matt at mh.dropbear.id.au> writes:
>
>> Anthony David (adavid at adavid.com.au) wrote:
>> > Direct rendering now doesn't work. He seems to think it was after a Mesa
>> > upgrade. He has removed the new Mesa but with no change in behaviour.
>> 
>> Try looking in the XFree86.log file (for :0 it'll be /var/log/XFree86.0.log)
>> as it should contain useful messages as to why DRI couldn't load.
>
> Thanks Matt
>
> DRI does seem to be loading, that is the wierd thing.

Well, the problem is that even though the DRI module has loaded in X, the
applications that use GL are probably encountering the mesa GL libs. Take
tuxracer. It links against:

reflex% ldd /usr/games/tuxracer | grep -i gl 
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x402e8000)
        libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x4034f000)

And we can see that this GL file belongs to:

reflex% dpkg -S libGL.so.1      
xlibmesa3: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2

So basically you need the GL files which come with X or your video driver (I
think nVidia package their own?) rather than the separate files which come in
the normal mesa distribution. That's my guess, anyway. ;-)

Cheers,
-- 
Damien Elmes



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