Hardware acceleration/Direct Rendering for old graphics card

[Selbstmord]

I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100 which sports an S3 Savage /MX graphics card,

I get very bad performance in OpenGL applications/games, even if it's only 2D being rendered.

So I tried installing the snapshots for my card from http://dri.freedesktop.org/

And I still get direct rendering: no whilst running glxinfo, meaning I have no hardware acceleration.

Maybe my card is just unsupported or too old to get any "good" performance. Any ways, I was just wondering if anyone has the same card and have gotten direct rendering to work.

[DanielTonda]

I have the same graphics card ina Toshibe Satellite 2800.

I've also searched for 3d acceleration and have found nothing so far...

[w5set]

been here yet?
http://www.driverskit.com/freedownlo...nux/11152.html

[Selbstmord]

Thanks, now where shall I put it, and how shall I make Xorg load it?

[w5set]

wouldn't have a clue--click on the savage executable file???
there's an exec and an object code in the download and that's all--but clamav said it was clean...
??

[Selbstmord]

./s3switch lcd

glxinfo > direct rendering : No


Doesn't work, but thanks...

[w5set]

don't think a lot of the savage cards had direct rendering support (3D)..
it could be a dead end
check glxgears to see if it's faster now..

[Selbstmord]

It is faster, 72 FPS stable (probably really bad), but OpenGL is still crap.

Oh well, you win and you lose some, huh?