Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:44:09AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On 17. March 2004 at 12:29AM +0800,
> csj <csj@zapo.net> wrote:
>
> > On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100,
> > Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> wrote:
> >
> > 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!
You can compile in more than one fb driver. If there is no radeon card,
the radeonfb driver just won't be used.
I wouldn't be surprised if this makes a difference.
> I just found out something suspicious with the radeon kernel
> module in 2.6. I could rmmod it even when X is running! Under
> 2.4, I get a resource busy error.
Looks like X is not using dri then. Did you look for errors in
/var/log/XFree86.log, or in the dmesg output ?
Frank
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