Glxgears on ATI rage Pro

[Gilboa Davara]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:01 -0700, Les wrote:
> Hi, everyone, the ongoing battle of the graphics cards.  My "good" read
> high speed full development system runs well.  However I want to use an
> older system with Croquet.  Problem: the older system appears
> misconficured somehow.
> It has an ATI Rage Pro graphics chip set according to lspci,  And the
> graphics configuration for X sets it up as a Rage board OK.  I have
> attempted to down load the latest ATI driver for it, but unsuccessfully,
> so I suspect I will have to attempt that late tonight when there is less
> traffic.  In the mean time, I am working to discover what I can about
> the current setup that is bad.  I went throght the configuration on
> Finley's site, and it appeared to work OK, then when I rebooted, it
> began to reconfigure the graphics on every reboot.  And I still have low
> performance, and moreover seem to have lost a bit of software from the
> graphics interface.  Here is the output from glxgears:
> [lesh at localhost ~]$ glxgears
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> 541 frames in 6.1 seconds = 89.342 FPS
> 452 frames in 5.6 seconds = 80.584 FPS
[snip]
> Does anyone have any idea of what I should try next? Or where I could
> look for debugging this program?
> 
> Regards,
> Les H

Sadly enough, there's no easy solution for your problem.
For the time being I'm forced to download/patch/build/install the DRI
drivers (and the mesa RPM) for my mach64 based laptop display by hand.
On the upside, the next kernel - libDRI sync will most likely include
the latest mach64/rage/rage128 drivers paving the pay to a
out-of-the-box experience.

In the mean time, if you're willing to put an effort into it, do the
following:
A. Download the latest rage128 snapshot from freedesktop [1]. You'll
need to patch it to make it compatible withe latest kernel. (Let me know
if you need help.)
B. Build and install the rage128 DRI kernel module using the build-in
install.sh script.
C. As far as I remember, the mesa RPM already includes the user-land
rage128 DRI driver, so there's no need to patch and rebuild the mesa
SRPM. (One of my least favorite tasks :()

- Gilboa
[1] http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/