troubleshooting guide

[Torgeir Veimo]

Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 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?

I had to manually rename the radeon module compile to by dripkg's 
install script from radeon.o to radeon.ko with kernel 2.6.*. Which 
kernel do you run?

When Xati starts it will print out if dri is available or not if 
compiled with the --enable-dri param.

-- 
-Torgeir