DRI issues

[Net Llama!]

On 10/26/2002 07:38 PM, Bob Raymond wrote:
> dep wrote:
> 
>> begin  Bob Raymond's  quote:
>>
>> | No response from him, but the status of this has changed a bit now.
>> | I've got the appropriate driver, etc. (a cvsup'ing did the trick),
>> | DRI loads, but I get segfaulting when I try anything GLX. Running
>> | xpdyinfo gives me "XFree86-DRI" so I assume I'm OK there.  I
>> | shudder to think what will happen when a screensaver loads.
>>
>> what does it say when you do glxinfo? we're looking for something like 
>> this up top:
>>
>> name of display: :0.0
>> display: :0  screen: 0
>> direct rendering: Yes
>> server glx vendor string: SGI
>> server glx version string: 1.2
> 
> 
> I get:
> 
> rraymond at EPoX rraymond $ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> r200CreateScreen
> Segmentation fault
> 
>> there has also been a *big* issue that i think is attributable to some 
>> gl implementations. for instance, some what appear to be utter locks 
>> of suse 8.1; in my experimentation here, though, it is utter locks 
>> brought on by xscreensavers and some vid cards and the current xfree 
>> shipped by suse. otoh, on my matrox g-400 with recent cvs xfree, there 
>> has been no such problem.
> 
> 
> I don't get locks, the screensaver (in my case, "Pipes - another," just 
> doesn't come up (blank screen).

I'm just shooting in the dark here, but perhaps rebuilding the GLX stuff 
(or all of XFree86) might fix this?

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