Re: Claims to Not Support Visual (rv280)

Esben Stien wrote:
> I have a rv280 based card (Radeon 9250) and in my xorg log I see these
> messages:
> 
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x24
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x25
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x26
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x27
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x28
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x29
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2a
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2b
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2c
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2d
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2e
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2f
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x30
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x31
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x32
> 
> I'm running Mesa-7.0.3 and xorg-server-1.4.2 on
> GNU/Linux-2.6.23.11-rt14.
> 
> Is there some documentation on what these "visuals" correspond to?. Is
> it actual hardware that doesn't support something or is it the driver
> not having implemented certain features?.
> 

Wow, I used to have a card very much like that, but after a year of 
waiting the DRI driver never worked. -- it would instantly and 
completely crash the machine even during the most trivial operations 
possible such as loading glxgears or even glxinfo. It would even crash 
openoffice because it made some openGL call or other. =P Even for the 
few brief weeks it did work, the lighting was glitchy, and it had too 
many other bugs. =(

I eventually gave up waiting and bought a Nvidia 5300 and used the 
proprietary drivers. Later I upgraded to a 7300 and am quite pleased 
with it. My motherboard is now 5 years old so I can't upgrade my card 
any further... My best advice to you is to abandon hope that the open 
source driver will ever work and just break down and get yourself the 
best nvidia card your mobo can support... Even with AGP 4x, I can still 
support a 7300 (to my surprise and delight!). I'm now a daily user of 
Second Life, google earth, and several other programs, all of which work 
pretty damn well...

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