Re: Radeon 9000
On Sam, 2003-05-03 at 10:39, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> On 02 May 2003 12:14:18 +0200
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > > I tried the driver/chipset trick, but it just doesn't work out with
> > > 4.2.1.1, starting xserver fails with:
> > >
> > > (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
> > > (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler
> >
> > It doesn't fail due to this, it just means the DRI is disabled. Make
> > sure the kernel agpgart driver is loaded before the radeon DRM.
>
> Yes, that was it. Thanks a lot!
>
> I just thought agpgart would be loaded automatically.
You can automate it by putting
below radeon agpgart
in a file in /etc/modutils/ and running update-modules.
> One thing I'm missing is that there's no dependency to xfonts-base, it's
> only "suggested" by the moment. I guess this is due it can also be
> provided by a xfonts server. But would a Debian specific patch with a
> hint to install the xfonts-base package in such cases be a bad idea?
That's what x-window-system-core is for.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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