ATI Radeon X1650 Pro problem

[Mohan Parthasarathy]

Sorry..I forgot to download fglrx. It loads fine..I will try restarting X..

Thanks for all your help.

thanks
mohan


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy <suruti94 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The first thing i see is
>
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
>
> Then
>
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
> [dri] Disabling DRI.
>
> Then i tried manually loading drm.ko and it failed with error..
>
> -mohan
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy <suruti94 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > When drm is loaded (modprobe drm), i get a failure saying "Cannot
>> Allocate
>> > memory". I guess i need
>> > radeon.ko and drm.ko. I was loading drm.ko first. Is that right ?
>> >
>>
>> The xserver will load the radeon and drm modules automatically.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> > -mohan
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy <
>> suruti94 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Finally i got it up and running except for the DRM stuff. I am
>> running
>> >> > the
>> >> > latest and greatest 1.5.99.1. But DRM
>> >> > open is failing. Do you know any way to fix it ? I just started the
>> >> > Xserver
>> >> > from my build..
>> >>
>> >> Is the new drm installed and loaded by the kernel?
>> >>
>> >> Alex
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > -mohan
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com
>> >
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy
>> >> >> <suruti94 at gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > I checked the instructions.. isn't there a easy way to just pick
>> the
>> >> >> > right
>> >> >> > drivers and make it work ?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> what do you mean?  You can follow the instructions there or build X
>> >> >> yourself, or...
>> >> >> Fiesty was too old to support your chip out of the box. so you'd
>> need
>> >> >> to either install update packages or build the X stack yourself or
>> >> >> upgrade to a newer release.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Alex
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > -mohan
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Alex Deucher
>> >> >> > <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Stone <
>> daniel at fooishbar.org>
>> >> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> >> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:50:04AM -0700, Mohan Parthasarathy
>> >> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> I just used the proprietary to start with. I am using ubuntu
>> >> >> >> >> Fiesty
>> >> >> >> >> release
>> >> >> >> >> and
>> >> >> >> >> when i used the radeon driver there i got an error
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
>> >> >> >> >> (EE) LoadModule: Module radeon_drv does not have a
>> >> >> >> >> radeon_drvModuleData
>> >> >> >> >> data
>> >> >> >> >> object.
>> >> >> >> >> (II) UnloadModule: "radeon_drv"
>> >> >> >> >> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > The driver name is just 'radeon', not 'radeon_drv'.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> There seems to be some mismatch. Also, how do i get a matching
>> >> >> >> >> drm
>> >> >> >> >> module ?
>> >> >> >> >> I am assuming that the current one in 2.6.20 should kernel
>> branch
>> >> >> >> >> should
>> >> >> >> >> work.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Hmm, it might.  I don't know what they've backported.  Someone
>> >> >> >> > should
>> >> >> >> > have built them already, though.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> for Ubuntu users:
>> >> >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10181
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Alex
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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