ATI driver for X.org 7.0.0?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 19:18:41 UTC 2006


Andy Burns wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> Speaking of which, what do I do to get kernel drm going?  I see:
>> sbin/lsmod | grep radeon
>> radeon                152096  0
>> drm                   133544  1 radeon
>> 
>> But in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>> (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
>> 
>>         *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon
>>         9500 *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in
>>         this tree. *** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is
>>         available from Mesa CVS. *** Additional information can be found
>>         on http://r300.sourceforge.net *** This message has been last
>>         modified on 2005-08-07.
>> 
>> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
>> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
>> [...]
>> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
>> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> 
> I get the same, and subesquently everything from xscreensavers-gl-extras
> to ksysinfo thet even things about GLX gets an error, I'm beginning to
> wonder if we don't get any software Mesa fallback for openGL now?
> 
> It'd be nice to hear otherwise, I'm sticking with xorg drivers for now
> instead of fglrx ones ...
> 

I AM using xorg drivers.




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