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["Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>]

hmmm.  This is the first i had heard of the dri spell (is that the same
as a dry-spell ;) ).

Anyway, according to what you wrote here, the dri spell replaces both
the ati and nvidia drivers. What about the nvidia_headers spell. Does it
replace that too?

If so, why does the dri home page, under hardware notes for nvidia state
that it does not work with nvidia cards?
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/nVidia?
action=highlight&value=CategoryHardware

How does this driver compare with nvidia's driver in quality (i realize
it's still kinda beta?  I don't run the latest games but some of the
playing around i do with video does us opengl stuff.

Bearcat


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 07:49 +0000, Eric Schabell wrote:
> > Anyone got any recommendations for 3D or other acceleration settings ?
> > 
> > Xorg / Framebuffer / other?
> > 
> > as I have only managed to get the Xorg settings working ONCE to have any
> >   form of 3D acceleration instead of having dog slow responses from
> >   non-glxgears programs...
> > 
> > maybe a wiki based reference of such things would be useful ?
> >   or reference to an existing wiki?(if such a thing exists!?!?)
> > 
> Howdy all,
> 
> See ruski, if anyone has a wiki page somewhere then he might as author
> and master of the dri spell.
> 
> As far as tips, you need to have (in this order I believe):
> 
> 1) kernel support for your chipset (your motherboard, not your graphics
>    card chipset!). Turn off all drm kernel stuff.
> 
> 2) running the above kernel, you then need to get graphics card support
>    from either ati_driver (binary spell), nvidia stuff (binary spells) or
>    use the dri spell which will query you for your cards. 
> 
> 3) you need to ensure your xorg.conf has a dri section:
> 
>    # **********************************************************************
>    # DRI Section
>    # **********************************************************************
>    Section "dri"
>     Mode 0666
>    EndSection
> 
> These steps are the basics I follow for all kinds of accellerated cards,
> I hope it helps,
> 
> erics
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