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Damnit, I know the R300 DRI driver is alpha code and all, but it doesn’t work on my card at all! I’ve been slowly working with the dri-devel mailing list on how to get it working, but no one has been able to figure out whats wrong.

• Windows works fine.
• The ATI binary driver, fglrx, works fine.
• Removing Load "DRI" from Xorg.conf and then starting Xorg with R300 DRI works fine.
• Xorg.0.log doesn’t give me any hints as to whats wrong.
• dmesg gives me no hints as to whats wrong.
• Running DRI, libDRM, and the DRM kernel modules from CVS doesn’t fix it.
• It isn’t the agpart driver, because fglrx uses the agpart driver instead of it’s internal one due to how Ubuntu Dapper works
• Fast write is not on.
• AGP speed is set to default, which seems to be 4x.
• I use GDM, and the Ubuntu GDM drum sound doesn’t play.
• It does, however, play if I manually go to a text console, but trying to go back to X leaves me with a scrambled screen with a working mouse curosr, and input doesn’t work; sysreq, however, does.
• Starting X by itself without GDM doesn’t fix it.

Anyone out there have an idea of how this can be fixed?

Update: In October of 2005, I bought this card, under the impression that ATI would support it under Linux, and they have failed. They did not give any help to the DRI R300 project, nor did they improve their fglrx drivers. On October 11th of 2006, I have replaced this card with a Geforce 6800XT.

However, I wish the best of luck to the DRI team. Not everyone is willing to shell out $120 to get rid of problematic drivers.

Ugh, here is my backlog of Lego kits so far. I think I should get cracking on these soon.

I rarely remember my dreams, and when I do, they’re usually pretty fucked up. So, this morning, I remembered a dream I had.

I was in some underground cavern, which was shaped like a valley, and was filled with a jungle, and rivers, and lakes, and at the far end was an atypical Chinese temple, but built with extreme dimensions.

I had a sword, and I was fighting Mongol warriors in metal armor, and there were many of them, and I managed to kill or sneak past most of them to get to the temple. In the temple were clerics performing a ritual in front of something that looked like an Egyptian sarcophagus, but painted bright red with gold highlights. Infront of it was an ornately designed katana, with a gold and black scabbard on a stand.

The warriors assembled outside of the temple, and the clerics finished their ritual, and the sarcophagus started glowing, and the lid faded away. An armored warrior sat up, and stood, and stepped out of the sarcophagus, and went into the courtyard, and the warriors cheered and chanted a single word, “Emperor! Emperor! Emperor!”

Then, the Emperor and I started fighting, and I eventually killed him, and he turned into a blackened and charred skeleton, and him and his armor fell over. His warrriors started charging the temple, and I took his sword and swung it at the warriors, and all the warriors were killed instantly, also turning into blackened and charred skeletons, and falling over.

And then these two American women show up and thank me for saving them, and then these British soldiers that look like they came from the 1940s show up and secure the place, even though I’ve pretty much killed everyone.

So, yeah, that made like no sense. I have weird dreams. And whats really weirder is I turn on Sci-Fi this afternoon, and they were airing The Shadow, featuring Genghis Khan and his Mongol warrior cronies in the 1940s.

Yup, I’ve finally gotten the 6208 B-Wing Fighter. Mine, all mine! Wahahahaha! I also picked up the 7256 Jedi Starfighter.

In addition to all of that, I picked up one of Galoob’s Micro Machine Star Wars series spacecraft, the Slave I.

Update: Well, this is interesting. According to the Cargo Bay, Galoob has redid the packaging, into a more stylish clam shell. Also, the paint job is different, and has Jango Fett’s blue and yellow coloring instead of Boba Fett’s brown and dark green coloring. Maybe a re-release for Episode 2/3?

Update 2: Ahh, some Star Wars fans have filled me in. It is, infact, a re-release for Episode 2/3. The Boba Fett Fan Club has a picture of the old one and the new one.

Update 3: Has anyone noticed the shadow of the yellow starfighter covers up the laser beam? A glowing laser beam?