Re: OpenChrome support for Debian Sid+experimental
On 4/26/07, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
Prakash J Kokkatt wrote:
> openchrome.org drivers are included by many popular distros like
> sabayon etc.for newer Unichrome pro cards to work in Linux,the only
> option i found was using openchrome.I hope someday this will be
> resolved and these drivers will enter debian :)
I understood that already. But my question was "why is this driver not
in freedesktop.org as other drivers do?".
Being in other distributions does not mean it can/should be in Debian.
Lots of distrib include lots of crappy packages. License issues as well
as being unstable could be a good reason to keep this driver outside of
Debian. Right now, we have no idea whether this driver is stable or not.
At least, if it was with X.org on freedesktop.org, it would guarantee
that the license and stability are not too bad, and it will make our job
very easy since we already ship lots of drivers from freedesktop.org. If
it is not possible for this driver to go to freedesktop.org, you need to
either find somebody to package it and upload it in Debian (but he will
ask the same questions about license and stability), or ask the
developers on openchrome.org to talk to Debian.
hello,thanks for clarifying that,hopefully this driver(s ) will enter
freedesktop.org and i dont know about the licencing terms :(
> I tried to pinpoint what error i am getting for the reason of system
> hangs and X crashes.
> the error i got while booting into the Debian Sid system is shown below:
>
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c)
> Dave Jones
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol agp_bridge
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp3_generic_sizes
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> global_cache_flush
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_enable
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_insert_memory
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_destroy_page
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol agp_off
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_remove_bridge
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_mask_memory
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_alloc_by_type
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_free_by_type
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_alloc_bridge
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol agp_add_bridge
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol get_agp_version
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_remove_memory
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_create_gatt_table
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_free_gatt_table
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol
> agp_generic_alloc_page
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: via_agp: Unknown symbol agp_put_bridge
Looks like you need to load agpgart before loading the via_agp module.
thx.i'll try loading agpgart first using /etc/modules file or maybe i
need to edit some /etc/rcX.d file?
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: agpgart: Detected VIA VT3314 chipset
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @
> 0xf0000000
> Apr 26 14:41:05 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0
> (0000 -> 0002)
(instead of loading it after).
Brice
thx for ur replies.
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