[wellylug] Google Earth

[Jonathan Harker]

Rob Collins wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> Seems you know a lot about specific graphics hardware problems and thank
> you for the advice.  Will forcing the card into PCI mode automatically
> enable DRI or do I have to do additionally what Alex suggested:
> 
> "(In the "Module" section)
>      Load "dri"
> 
> (...and at the end of the file...)
> Section "dri"
>     Mode 0666
> EndSection "
> 
> Also, without using software cursors, my card seems to throw up a square
> block of static instead of a mouse pointer to do I need to also add:
> 
> option "HWcursor"   "false"

You need to tell xorg about DRI, so yes you will need the Load "dri"
bit, and the Section "dri" as well (to tell xorg that non-root users can
also use DRI)

People have varying success with turning hardware tiling on and off.
Searching the interwebs for "vt8375 xorg dri" or similar gets the best
stuff, mostly forum threads with people saying "how the heck do I get
DRI to work?!"  :-)

It's all about fiddling with xorg.conf, as most modern distros should
have the S3 savage stuff in the kernel. Which distro are you using?

Without the hardware to play with myself, I can't really say much beyond
what's already out there except try it and see. Make a backup of a
working /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that if it all goes horribly wrong you can
reboot into a console and copy it back:

  cp  /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /home/rob/xorg.conf.backup

(or wherever.)

J