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List:       dri-users
Subject:    Re: [Dri-users] Help! Linux newb tryin to enable DRI
From:       Jens Owen <jens () tungstengraphics ! com>
Date:       2003-04-29 20:45:37
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Adrian Hollywood wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody, as the subject title says, i am fairly new to linux. I 
> recently installed Ark Linux Alpha 7, and tried playin some of the games 
> that came with it. The games ran very choppy to say the least. I looked 
> up some things and found out that I have Xfree86 version 4.3.0. It also 
> says "Direct rendering: NO" when i type glxinfo in the console. I have a 
> Radeon 9000pro 128mb. I tried enabling dri by adding Load "dri" in the 
> XF86Config-4 file, but it was unsuccessful. I can run glxgears at around 
> 125fps, but i don't know if that's good or not. My system runs pretty 
> well except for screensavers and games.. which run very slowly. Any help 
> would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.
> 
> oh yeah.. i don't think this has anything to do with my problem but i 
> guess i should just add that i'm runnin a triple boot system... Ark 
> Linux, winXP and win98.

Adrian,

I'm not familiar with Ark Linux, and from lack of response to your post 
most of the readers of this list may not be familiar with it, either. 
Try stepping thrue the debugging steps 8 & 9 in the users guide 
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIuserguide.html

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