Re: xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v1 on woody, yet another
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:56:13PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> new Radeon card running. :-) Speaking of the Radeon, that's one glitch I
> had to deal with. It works fine if I have the DRI module (from 2.4.19-rc1)
> loaded before I startx; otherwise the startup fails.
Someone wrote to ask me for particulars about this, and I seem to have lost
his email, somehow, when I decided that I could afford the time to try to
replicate it and get the actual error reported. Either that or tin lost
it... Nah, it was probably me. :-(
Anyway, I can't replicate this now. The radeon.o module is not being loaded
automagically, but that just causes the X server to report that it's not
using DRI. I'm not sure what I saw four days ago. Maybe I was
misattributing the errors I saw before I learned that 4.1 just didn't
support this card. Or perhaps it was caused by not having agpgart loaded,
which modprobing radeon would have corrected; however, that seems all but
impossible, as agpgart has been loaded at boot time (via /etc/modules) for a
long time now. It's a puzzlement.
So all that I can replicate, now, is that contrary to the description in
section 5 of the README.DRI, the X server does not automatically load the
kernel DRI module. One caveat: I'm running this under a kernel with a long
name that distinguishes the versions of some patches it has applied. Could
it be that the X loader doesn't like decorated version numbers? I guess
2.4.19-rc1-pkt.p4-pe.p9 *is* a bit baroque. :-)
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