troubleshooting guide

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 20:07, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 18:51, Torgeir Veimo wrote: 
> > 
> > Xati says;
> > 
> > Using ATI card: ATI Radeon RV200 LW at pci:0000:01:00.0
> > Screen: 16/16 depth/bpp
> > 
> > /etc/grub.conf;
> > 
> > [...] video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=834
> > 
> > Will it run faster if I use radeonfb instead of vesafb?
> 
> AFAIK it doesn't care.
> 
> You need to build with --enable-dri and run a recent DRM from DRI CVS
> for compositing to be accelerated.

I'm also on an IBM Thinkpad, this one is a T-41 with a Radeon 9000
Mobility..

I built the kernel module for DRM from this CVS source:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building

and I recompiled xserver from CVS. Everything is still slow (much slower
than Xvesa); is there any way to tell if Xati is actually trying to use
DRI? It doesn't say anything about it on the command line.

Interestingly, I get:
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.9.0 20020828 on minor 0
from the 2.6.4-rc1 inbuilt DRM, and:
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.10.0 20020828 on minor 0: ATI Radeon Lf R250
Mobility 9000 M9
from CVS DRM. I have no idea why the version is lower in CVS?

Thanks if you can help!
grahame