Re: ATI radeon 7200 and dri-trunk
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:15, marco wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:11:17 +0100
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:34, marco wrote:
> > > On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:10:41 +0100
> > > Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > My kernel is 2.4.22-ben2 on powermac g4
> > > > > My card is a PCI ati radeon 7200
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like this card working with all features and heard that
> > > > > dri-trunk is for me, I decided to give it a chance, but...
> > > > >
> > > > > I add
> > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./
> > > > > in my sources.list file.
> > > > >
> > > > > I install all the binaries and sources. Compile the kernel
> > > > > modules fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > X worked fine without dri before.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting, with the same configuration? If so, does copying
> > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a to
> > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk/ make a difference?
> > >
> > > no :-(
> >
> > So which XFree86 version works, using what configuration?
>
> All versions of Xfree works with fbdev driver. but I can't have accel...
>
> When I use radeon_drv X stop with libvgahw.a error...
For the record, this is a fundamental problem; the vgaHW module tries to
access VGA resources, which isn't possible via the PCI bus on newer Macs
(right, Ben?). The only workaround will be not to use the vgaHW module
with Option "UseFBDev".
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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