[Openchrome-users] Black screen with direct rendering and cle266

[Xavier Bachelot]

Peter Andersson wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply!
> I have updated the xorg.conf (pasted below) with the suggestions you gave
> me. Eg i removed the VBEModes option and added the NoDDC option.
> I have also updated the openchrome, drm and libdrm to the latest
> development versions, dmesg now outputs this error:
> 
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:4000000 at d8000000 for device 0000:01:00.0
> [drm] Initialized via 2.10.2 20060616 on minor 0:
> [drm] Used old pci detect: framebuffer loaded
> agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
> [drm:via_mem_alloc] *ERROR* Attempt to allocate from uninitialized memory
> manager.
> 
> The screen still stays completely black. If you have any more ideas i
> would be more than happy to try them out. I have also pasted the Xorg.log
> below the config file.
> 

...snip...

> (II) VIA: driver for VIA chipsets: CLE266, KM400/KN400, K8M800,
> 	PM800/PM880/CN400
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (--) Chipset CLE266 found
> (!!) VIA Technologies does not support or endorse this driver in any way.
> (!!) For support please contact the driver maintainer or your X vendor.

This is not an openchrome log, you're still running the xorg driver and 
I believe you need and uptodate openchrome driver with the updated 
libdrm. Please make sure you put the hand-compiled openchrome driver to 
a place the X server can find it.

Xavier