Re: Radeon 9000

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Don, 2003-05-01 at 22:38, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:39:22 +1000
> Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I was looking at the Subversion repository: the Radeon 9000
> > support was included in 4.2.1-6pre7v2, which was never actually
> > released, so no Debian 4.2.1 version has support for the 9000 series.
> > You can either try Sven's trick, or upgrade to 4.3 for the time being.
> 
> 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.


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