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Who uses SL with free/open source drivers?

Router Gray
Registered User
Join date: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 5
02-14-2007 15:23
From: Merrick Moose
DRI is depreciated, you don't need it/it can be replaced with newer modules.

Load "i2c" #card detection(TV tuner)
Load "bitmap" #bitmap fonts
Load "ddc" #Vesa Display Data Channel
Load "extmod" #server extensions
Load "freetype" #free type font
Load "glx" #accelerated gl
Load "int10" #graphics card init.
Load "type1"#Type 1 fonts
Load "vbe" #VESA bios extensions
Load "v4l" #video 4 linux

DRI won't be used by secondlife if glx is present. The above are what I use, many will cause problems on ATI hardware but it provides some ideas on what to unload and try loading to fix the problem.



i'm using an ATI 9250, fedora Core 6 distro, the included open source drivers. When I dont load the DRI module in xorg.conf, SL gives me the 'failed to create window' dialog box. Anything you can tell me I might need to do or change somewhere else for SL to run without DRI? anything else you need to know about my system to answer this?
Lord Kaos
Linux User
Join date: 1 Oct 2005
Posts: 34
02-18-2007 20:36
I tried SL with Open Source Ati Drivers (9600xt 256mb Card) , Fog wasn't working, draw distance was stuck at 512m(Changing it doesn't change anything) but I had a good FPS
Signore Iredell
Registered User
Join date: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 43
02-19-2007 02:35
Thanks for your research, Prospero. Your annotations and thoughts are really appreciated. Of course, nobody needs to be truly open in order to produce and share this kind of annotations.

I'm quite sure that Linden Lab would appreciate them too. Let's remember that most Linux distro don't ship proprietary drivers by default. If people can give Second Life a try with a default Linux install,
that's really good.

Let's keep this thread in the topic that is Second Life with free vs. proprietary drivers.Btw, I'm on Nvidia.
Seg Baphomet
Fedora Developer
Join date: 1 Oct 2005
Posts: 46
02-19-2007 14:46
Heh. I snagged me a 256mb Radeon 9600XT too. With the open source r300 drivers, the official build still locks up the X server. However, with my open source build I'm working on for Fedora, it works beautifully! I wonder if its a multilib problem, as my build is native x86_64.

Check it out:

http://www.haxxed.com/random/SecondLifeIsFree.jpg
Kevin Susenko
Voice Mentor
Join date: 11 Jul 2006
Posts: 198
02-19-2007 15:16
I use the proprietary drivers because open drivers don't exist for the 8800. Not even the Ubuntu packaged version of the same nVidia drivers that support the 8800 with work with it.
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