Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk
On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100,
Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:02:26PM +0800, csj wrote:
> > For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000)
> > under linux 2.6 using the debs from:
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/
> >
> > The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version.
> >
> > Can somebody confirm if dri-trunk (especially from the above
> > site) works with linux 2.6? I'm just looking for a success story
> > to inspire me to continue wrestling with the beast.
>
> I don't know if this will help you, but it works for me on
> powerpc with a Radeon Mobility M6 (should be about the same as
> a 7000). The only difference I see is that I have radeonfb
> compiled in. In case it matters, I only use
> xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk and xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, not the
> drm-trunk modules (the kernel driver is up to date in 2.6). My
> PC with a radeon 7000 is still on 2.4 for now.
Okay, I removed drm-trunk so I can use the "native" 2.6 driver.
But still no DRI. Since my radeonfb is a module, I tried
modprobe'ing radeonfb but I get an error message like "cannot
reserve FB region". Does radeonfb have to be compiled in? Does
it make a difference if I have only generic vesa FB support?
$ grep VESA /boot/config-2.6.4*
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
As much as possible I like all the brand-specific (non-generic)
drivers compiled as modules. I plan to use the exact same kernel
on my other machine which has an nVidia card (which has working
DRI/GLX using the nVidia binary drivers). Thanks!
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