Re: x4 + pci radeon 7500
Hello Tom,
I believe what you are looking for is DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) to enable
DRI. In the 2.4.18-26.9 kernel that is being tested for RH-7.2 for Alpha, we
do have the PCI radeon 7000 working on the Alpha Architecture with a little
mucking about. So there is some hope that your 7500 might work.
We are using the default DRM from XFree86 4.3.0. In most cases, this works
with the 4.1.0 XFree86 provided in RH-7.2. There are some problematic cases
(such as the Radeon 7000) where the old DRM is still needed with this X
server. The "old" DRM modules are still provided in 2.4.18-26.9 with a -4.1.0
appended to their name. These can be selected with aliases in
/etc/modules.conf. For example, if you have a Radeon 7000 and have
trouble with 3D apps with the default DRM, you can select the old DRM by
adding this line to /etc/modules.conf:
alias radeon radeon-4.1.0
I hope this helps.
Best Regards,
--George
P.S - I have previously chatted on the list about the 2.4.18-26.9 test kernel.
If you can not find the reference, please send me a private e-mail for the
URL.
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 08:55 pm, Tom Vier wrote:
> i'm running testing, and trying to get my new radeon card to work under
> xfree86 4. unfortunetly, i get this error below. also, there's no dri menu
> in 2.4.21-rc1's menuconfig. is there no dri on alpha?
>
> XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 20030425234929
> root@lully.debian.org) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0,
> vendor release 6600)
> Release Date: 18 October 2002
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
> newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
> reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17 alpha [ELF]
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Apr 30 20:52:39 2003
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:debug_xform.o": No
> symbols found Skipping
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found
> (EE) RADEON(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
>
> Fatal server error:
> AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
>
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to debian-x@lists.debian.org.
>
> XIO: fatal IO error 54 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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