Is dri started or not ?

[phe]

Hello,

In my Xorg.conf I find :

"...
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection
...

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Unknown monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
....

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
"

When I start X and I have a look in Xorg.0.log I see no line with neither (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.


When I do "glxinfo" I get following result :

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No


Here is DRI NO .

What is right?

How can I check it?

thanks,

phe

[Hlingler]

What is the brand of your video card? And your OS? (F7? FC6?) It appears to me that you must be using the generic video drivers that came with your OS. You will not have direct rendering (aka "hardware-accelerated rendering") without installing the right drivers: "direct rendering: No".

[phe]

I use FC5.
Video driver : extract of lspci -vv :

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F69000 HiQVideo (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Chips and Technologies F69000 HiQVideo
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 15
Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 30000000 [disabled] [size=256K]

In Xorg.config :

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "chips"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Chips and Technologies F69000 HiQVideo"
EndSection


So I think this is a generic driver.

How and where can I find a more specific one for my card?

[Hlingler]

FC5 is past end-of-life, and my research shows that "Chips and Technologies F69000 HiQVideo" is well past end-of-life, too. You can search the web, but you may actually have the best available driver ("chips"). I cannot help you any further than that.

Regards,
Vince

[phe]

Will I get a better result when I would add a PCI card of S3 ViRGE 3D/DX P/N:ACM-9628 rev.A1. ? ?

I have this in spare.

Do I need to load particular drivers for it?

FC5 : end-of-life
I know.

But does this means that we have to trow away FC5 and install FC7?
In one year FC7will be obsolete also. And so we can start over and over and over.

My system is +/- running fine, and I want to keep it so. I want to fine-tune (understand) it a little bit more. I do not care if this is in FC5.

One day I will mayby switch to FC7, but not now.

regards

[markkuk]

No, there's no DRI support for that ancient S3 card in any Fedora version.