dri no more working with xorg modular

Sascha Heid saschaheid at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 07:18:04 PST 2006


Thanks, that worked.
I have to reduce the resolution to 800x600 though and without drm, glx
wont work for longer then 2 seconds, whereas it worked fine with xorg
6.8.2.
No big deal though.

Regards,
Sascha



2006/3/29, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de>:
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.03.2006, 00:39 +0200 schrieb Sascha Heid:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > I had dri and glx working fine with xorg-6.8.2 on my Thinkpad X21
> > which has a ATI Rage Mobility Videocard.
> > Im running Gentoo-Linux and emerged/compiled Xorg Modular with DRI
> > Support (using the dri use-flag).
> >
> > When starting Xorg, the DRI-Module loads fine, but later the driver
> > says that he is disabling dri:
> >
> > X Window System Version 7.0.0
> > Release Date: 21 December 2005
> [snip]
> > (II) ATI(0): [drm] SAREA 2200+1208: 3408
> > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > [drm] failed to load kernel module "mach64"
> > (II) ATI(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> > (EE) ATI(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed
> > ---snip---
> > (II) ATI(0): Direct rendering disabled
> >
> >
> > Im using Kernel 2.6.16 with some gentoo patches.
> > When i run glxgears its working for about 2 seconds and then shows a
> > static image.
>
> DRI on Mach64 was never supported by standard kernels due to security
> problems. You need a DRM kernel module from DRM CVS.
>
>         cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/dri login
>         [hit Enter at the password prompt]
>         cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/dri co drm
>         cd drm/linux-core
>         make
>         cp drm.ko mach64.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/
>         depmod -a
>         [restart X]
>
> Regards,
>   Felix
>
> >
> >
> > Any advice would be most welcome :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sascha Heid
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