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Re: DRI not working with ATI Radeon M7



On Don, 2002-12-26 at 02:26, Fabrice Medio wrote: 
> 
> I have an very recent iBook2 here, with the following installed : 
> - 2.4.20 + latest benh kernel patches ;
> - latest drm-trunk modules ;
> - latest xserver from drm trunk.
> 
> /proc/pci says the video card is :
>   Bus  0, device  16, function  0:
>     VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW (rev 0).
> 
> My XF86Config-4 states the following (amongst other stuff) :
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load	"dbe"
> 	Load	"extmod"
> 	Load	"glx"
> 	Load	"dri"
> 	Load	"freetype"
> 	Load	"type1"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"TiBook Internal Video"
> 	Driver		"radeon"
> 	Option		"UseFBDev"
> 	Option		"DRIReinit"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
> 	Group	"dri"
> 	Mode	0666
> EndSection
> 
> When X is launched, the screen just stays blank (i.e, black). When I
> ssh the iBook from another machine, 'top' says X takes 99.9% of CPU
> cycles. Killing -9 the 'X' process halts it, but the screen doesn't
> return to console state, and remains black instead. 

Those symptoms could be caused by using the wrong radeon_drv.o . If you
can't see a problem with that, we'll need to see your full config file
and server log, maybe also kernel output etc.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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