Re: ibook g4, no success with the radeon driver.

[Chris Anderson <chris@simoniac.com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 11:50, Chris Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:30, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:10:34AM -0500, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:53, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Am I correct to assume the config vars I need are CONFIG_DRM and
> > > CONFIG_DRM_RADEON? Also, once those are built does that mean I should
> > 
> > Yep. you can even have them builtin if i remember correcly.
> > 
> > > remove the DRI section of my XF86Config-4 until I get DRI properly
> > > working (perhaps by setting up the dri-trunk debs)?
> > 
> > you just have to remove the #load "dri" line to disable the dri.
> 
> Good to know, I'll give this a try when I have some time today.

Ok, I had a chance to rebuild the kernel and try it out with
CONFIG_DRM=y and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y. I also moved radeonfb to a module
and removed the load line for DRI from my XF86Config. Now if I build
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON into the kernel (or load the radeon module built) and
then start X I get my normal X session except it looks almost like there
are scanlines in the display. They move around and if I exit X it looks
like the display just smears, any files I have open after this seem to
get corrupted and filled with ^@ sometimes (ex: my XF86Config-4 and my
pan config files). At this point I'm out of ideas for what to do next.
> > 
> > Friendly,
> > 
> > Sven Luther
> > 
>