From: Tom Flynn (flynnt++at++engr.sgi.com)
Date: 11/07/2001 20:11:06
Just a guess, I'm assuming your system is using: Mesa-3.4.2-7
Try upgrading to 3.4.2-8:
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/bleeding-edge/Mesa/3.4.2-8/i386/
and see if that helps.
-tom
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, John Jamulla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just installed RedHat 7.2.
> I have a ATI Rage Fury card, it's already accelerated the X-server
> automatically for me and things "seem" to work upon install, though I've
> not tried OpenGL programs.
>
> I checked all I know with xdpyinfo, checking the libGL.so etc. to make
> sure support is in there, but when I run perfly esprit.flt, it doesn't
> really say much (even at level of debug of 7), just says
> can't get a visual. It's NULL or something (the visual), Perfly seems to
> core dump, but I don't see a core left lying around.
>
> I did look at the output left in /var/log from the X-server startup, it
> recognizes my card, says it's accelerated and all. I don't see anything
> blatantly wrong. I tried to give it a specific visual
> (perfly) a bunch I tried none worked either.
>
> I was having a hard time trying to tell how many "bits of color" (bpp)
> the X-server was started with, and whether that mattered for starting
> perfly. Maybe I have the default set to a non compatible
> bpp?
>
> Does anyone know of problems with RH 7.2, performer 2.4.2 RPMS
> downloaded from SGI site?
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