[TriLUG] ATI Rage XL onboard graphics in Debian Sarge

[Brian Henning]

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john mitchell wrote:
> Brian Henning wrote:
> 
>> < big snip >
>>
>> What's DRI and how do I get it?  Errr...  aptitude says xlibmesa-dri 
>> is installed, so what am I doing wrong?  Could it be an unsupported 
>> chipset issue?
>>
>   Have you started here for DRI info:
> 
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki
> (go about 2/3 down the page and then click on "Troubleshooting":
> 
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting
> 

I'll look there.

> (I had to start my DRI adventure by compiling my kernel for AGP)
> 
>   Also you can check glx stuff with "glxinfo" - from a command line - it 
> should have "direct rendering: yes" near the top. I also had a missing 
> lib file that glxinfo pointed out. And for fun, run "glxgears".

Yeah.  Mine says "direct rendering: No".  So that'd be a problem.  It 
also spits out the same
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
before anything else.

I'll start nosing around on the DRI wiki.  Thanks!

~Brian