Re: ibook g4, no success with the radeon driver.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Chris Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:25, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:59, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > > > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > > > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > > > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > > > [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> > > > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> > > > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
> > >
> > > As I don't see any other problem in the log, I assume you're trying to
> > > get the DRI working? If so, you need to fix this, why can't it load the
> > > radeon module (try modprobe radeon)? Note that I'm not sure the DRI will
> > > work (well) with XFree86 4.3, you may want to try the dri-trunk-sid
> > > packages.
>
> I've tried with the DRI trunk packages, the problem seems to be that I
> can never get the radeon module to build (I think). Modprobe always says
> the module doesn't exist, perhaps I'm missing a config flag in the
> kernel?
Ok, that is the first order of business, get the module to load alone.
> > Because he uses the default debian kernel, which doesn't include drm
> > modules (yet) ?
> >
> > I will try to soon make a 2.4.23 powerpc kernel upload which include the
> > drm modules, altough i would prefer to skip 2.4.23 and go with 2.4.24
> > directly. But i have to wait for Herbert for that.
> >
>
> I'm using a heavily modified defconfig from benh's 2.6.1-rc1 tree.
Well, first i hope to be making 2.6 powerpc kernels soon, and second, i
guess you should just build the drm modules of your kernel sources,
should be ok. You could even have them builtin.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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