[Linux] GFX Driver Problem (SIS 305, using Stefan's recommended driver)
 

I have visited the site Stefan posted, downloaded the driver, installed it, followed the directions to enable the framebuffer driver and configured that properly, and I still am getting this error in Graal4 Linux:

"Direct Rendering is not possible. Please upgrade your graphics driver for faster gameplay!"


Is there something else that can be done that I may be missing?

What Linux kernel version do you have? I think you don't need the framebuffer driver anymore. From what I have seen you only need the option

Option "MaxXFBMem" "12288"

in the xorg.conf and eventually download the DRI driver patch (sis_dri.so)

I'm using Kernel 2.6.12-10-686. I ran LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo and this was the relevant output I got:

libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/sis_dri.so
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:0e.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:00:0e.0
libGL error:
SiS DRI driver expected DDX version 0-0.8.x but got version 0.7.0
libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
libGL error: InitDriver failed
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering

Someone posted something about that here, may be it helps:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=95771