what happened to xserver-mach64??

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Oct 30 09:36:36 PST 2006


Güven Türkol, le Mon 30 Oct 2006 18:18:10 +0100, a écrit :
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> >From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
> >To: Güven Türkol <xguvenx at hotmail.de>
> >CC: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Subject: Re: what happened to xserver-mach64??
> >Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:53:09 +0100
> >
> >Güven Türkol, le Mon 30 Oct 2006 17:50:25 +0100, a écrit :
> >> there are all kind of graphic-card drivers in Xorg now (check out
> >> xserver-xorg-video-all) but what happened to the xserver-mach64 driver
> >> which was in Xfree86? I cannot find it in Xorg. can anyone tell me where 
> >it
> >> can be found or how it is installed now?
> >
> >mach64 is integrated into the ati driver.
> >
> >Samuel
> 
> but everytime when I start X (xorg 7.1 with $startx)
> I get this fatal error althoug the ati driver is installed:
> 
> FATAL: Module mach64 not found.
> [drm]failed to load kernel module "mach64"
> (EE) ATI (0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed
> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

It's odd that the X server considers this as being fatal. Just disable
dri and then it should work.

Note: for DRI with mach64, you need to compile the mach64.ko kernel
module. It is not available in stock kernels, you have to fetch it from
the dri CVS.

Samuel



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