[Openchrome-users] K8M890 DRI not working under AMD64

[Jon Nettleton]

On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 05:49 +0100, yhager wrote:
> K8M890 DRI not working under AMD64
> Hi,
> 
> I've been following closely the development (especially on the vt3336 branch) and it has got me from working on the vesa driver, to finally work on the via driver, and I even got DRI working for a moment, but now it's not working again.
> 
> I have followed the instructions in the wiki ([http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=K8M890|K8M890]) to get DRM working. 
> In one of the revisions, there was a mistake in the wiki, and I have patched manually the via-agp.c file (instead of amd64-agp.c, as the latest wiki version says). After that, I did have DRM working on my system. As I follow the changes, I noticed the fix on that wiki page, and reverted to working with amd64-agp module, but could not get that to work.
> 
> When I start X, I get a black screen, and cannot get video output from the machine, nor to switch to a console VT. I believe the machine is running, but not sure at which state, as I don't have another machine here at the moment.
> 
> I am running rev 280 of the driver, on a 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 kernel, x86_64 arch. My MB is Asus M2V-TVM with the K8M890CE chipset.
> 
> I have tried enabling HWCursor and VBEModes, but to no avail.
> 
> When I disable DRM on xorg.conf, everything works fine (including VT change).
> 
> Xorg logs attached
> 
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I think this problem might be related to me re-enabling XvMC for
testing.  Can you please checkout revision 279 of the branch and see if
you have more success.  Thanks.

Jon