R300 with DRI: seems to work, but very dark image

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 03:24 +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> 
> The problem is as follows: running 'glxgears' and the 'teapot' demo
> using software rendering works, but slow, of course. Teapot runs at
> about 6-8 fps. 
> 
> Now, using the hardware acceleration, I only get a black or very dark
> image. Glxgears doesn't show anything, and the teapot shows a
> very,very faint version of the demo, which I can see by looking at
> just the right angle at the LCD. But from what I can see, the demo
> runs smoothly and a lot faster than software rendering. 
> 
> So apparently the hardware rendering works, there just doesn't seem te
> be any light in the scene. Other demos sometimes produce black/grayish
> images (can't recall excatly which one) or pastel colors.

Weird. And this only affects 3D rendering, everything else is fine
before and after running 3D apps?

> Now before I start sending heaps of logs and xorg.confs [...]

These files are generally requirements for diagnosing X related
problems.


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