DRI anyone?

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:45:21 PDT 2004


On 03/09/03 11:17, Kurt Wall wrote:
> % any new devices in /dev/ needed to correspond to this?
> 
> None that you create - the modules and kernel take care of this for you.
> For the record, I have:
> 
> $ ls -lR /dev/dri
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     226,   0 Dec 23 14:17 card0

and this happens without devfs?

> Naturally, if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. It's always
> Just Worked (c) here. With the i810, the manual page says you only get
> harware-accelerated 3D via DRI at 16bpp color. I'm unclear, however,
> if you get DRI at other depths (well, 24bpp) if you don't care about
> hardware-accelerated 3D -- I've got Matrox and NVIDIA cards here, so
> I have no problems in that regard.

i run at 16bpp anyway, so this is fine with me.  i'm guessing that 
you're flying smoothly with XFree86-4.3.0?  thanks.

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