HOWTO: Enable DRI (3D support) on SAVAGE cards

**w0rds** · July 22nd, 2006

Originally Posted by nomeat

Anything there that could be related to my problems?
Otherwise any clue where I should look next?

it should say something about direct rendering, in the first lines of the output. if it says "yes", it's enabled!

it never said "yes" to me, tho. dri doesn't like me, i think.

when i try to enable dri here on my thinkpad t20, it says i don't have enough memory [doesn't matter how low i set the resolution/color depth]. i tried it on 5.04, anyone knows if the problem is fixed on 6.06?

thanks

**nomeat** · July 23rd, 2006

Linux and older Laptops (4 or more years) is a pain.

Sorry I had enough of

and gave up.

It is a happy WinME system again and the kids are happy with it too.

**avilella** · September 2nd, 2006

hi all,

I tried this howto on Dapper and it seems I can't get it to work.

The compilation of the drivers went fine, but when I restart the X server, I still don't get DRI enabled.

I even did a:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and recompiled the drivers again, but no luck.

Any idea of why this may not be working for my on Dapper?

Thanks in advance,

Cheers

**NoWhereMan** · September 2nd, 2006

try setting the DefaultDepth to 16 and not 24, when doing sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg or manually editing xorg.conf; that was the problem for me.

btw, has anybody here with a (pro)savage managed to make it work with xgl/aiglx+compiz ?

bye!

**avilella** · September 2nd, 2006

yes, tried that, no luck.

This is the snippet of my xorg.conf file...

-----

Section "Device"
Identifier "S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]"
Driver "savage"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-51
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

**NoWhereMan** · September 2nd, 2006

Originally Posted by avilella

Section "Screen"
[...]

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
[..]

try setting that to 16, too
of course reboot, then (restarting gdm may not work)

**terry98** · November 9th, 2006

hi guys ive got a omnibook xe3-gc with a savage-MX/IX ive everything in the post ans cant get the F#@$%& drivers to work.... ive downloaded the latest common and savage even compiled the latest drm all these from dri.freedesktop.org...... HELP!!!

PS.: I only got 192Mb in ram, ive tried to install dapper but it hangs while installing....

**dpm** · November 12th, 2006

Originally Posted by NoWhereMan

btw, has anybody here with a (pro)savage managed to make it work with xgl/aiglx+compiz ?

The savage driver does not work with compiz. See this info I posted a few minutes ago about this:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...36&postcount=5

BTW, in edgy I got the savage driver working with dri with no trouble (no compilation, etc.)

Cheers.

**encompass** · December 9th, 2006

Originally Posted by desp

The savage driver does not work with compiz. See this info I posted a few minutes ago about this:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...36&postcount=5

BTW, in edgy I got the savage driver working with dri with no trouble (no compilation, etc.)

Cheers.

I have the savage driver... in edgy, but if I remember seeing the xorg log file dri is disabled. How did you enable it?

**dpm** · December 10th, 2006

Originally Posted by encompass

I have the savage driver... in edgy, but if I remember seeing the xorg log file dri is disabled. How did you enable it?

I don't think dri is disabled by default in Edgy. I believe simply the following line is required in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Code:

    Load    "dri"

In any case, I've attached my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files for reference. Note that the

Code:

  Option        "AIGLX" "true"

and

Code:

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

lines in my xorg.conf are probably not needed, since all this is enabled per default in Edgy's X, but I haven't bothered removing them since last time I was playing around with the driver.

I hope this helps.

Cheers.