Re: G400 vs. DRM
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:23:23AM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
>
> Eugene,
>
> To my untrained eye this log doesn't really show if dri was loaded. I
> had the same log, but dri didn't work on my G400. I apologize if I
> needlesly reiterate what you've already done, but I believe that in
> addition to the kernel compile options you mentioned I had the
> following:
>
> CONFIG_AGP=y
> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y (since I have a 440BX chipset)
> CONFIG_DRM=y
> CONFIG_DRM_MGA=y
Have all that, except with
CONFIG_AGP_AMD=y
> also, look for this part in the XFree86.log:
>
> (==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled
> (**) Option "dpms"
> (**) MGA(0): DPMS enabled
> (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video
> (II) MGA(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
> (II) MGA(0): [DRI] installation complete
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] Mapped 128 DMA buffers
> (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled
Have all that, preceeded by the line
(==) MGA(0): Backing store disabled
Searching through the log file, here're my warnings and errors:
(WW) Open APM failed
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal
(WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected!
(EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0)
Just in case it would shed any light, I am running Athlon on Biostar
M7MKA motherboard...
Thanks for your help, Alex.
--ET.
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