Running X

Configuration

Before restarting X, make sure you have the right lines in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. The key ones are:


Section "Module"
        [ ... ]
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"dri"
EndSection

Section "DRI" Mode	0666 EndSection 
For more detailed discussion of configuration, see the DRI Compilation Guide. You may also find your driver documentation (for example, man r128) helpful for driver-specific syntax.

By way of an example, this is my XF86Config-4 file.

Starting X

Run startx and follow the above procedure to determine whether DRI is running. If it isn't, shut down X and check which modules are currently loaded, using lsmod. Try removing the appropriate module (in my case, r128) using rmmod r128. If this doesn't do the trick you will probably need to reboot before restarting X.