Re: Help with DRM / DRI on Matrox G400

[Paul Mackinney <paul_mackinney@mackinney.net>]

briand@aracnet.com declaimed:
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Mackinney <paul_mackinney@mackinney.net> writes:
> 
>   Paul> I don't have a device /dev/dri/card0. Am I supposed to be
>   Paul> running devfs?  Kernel config shows
> 
>   Paul> $ grep DEVFS config-2.4.20-k6 CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y #
>   Paul> CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
> 
> You need that card device:
> 
> ~ $ ls -ld /dev/dri
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 22 14:10 /dev/dri
> ~ $ ls -l /dev/dri
> total 0
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     video    226,   0 Jan 22 14:10 card0
> 
> Sorry but I didn't see the start of the thread.  Another thing you will 
> also need is agp support (agpgart).
> 
> be sure and load the agpgart module _before_ starting X.
> 
> Brian

Loading agppart was the key, I added it with modconf before starting X,
the device node was created somehow, and DRI is loading fine. Still not
enough to allow this tired old K6-III/450 to play DVDs, though :-(

Thanks for everyone's help

Paul
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Paul Mackinney
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