[gentoo-user] Card is Radeon R200, but Mesa builds Gallium R300; HELP!

[Walter Dnes]

Now what?  Ignore what you see on
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml and
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml about an
"ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]" not needing a binary blob.
It does require the R200 blob from radeon-ucode.  If the blob isn't
there, the bootup will delay for a minute, time out, and then continue.
If the R200 blob is in /lib/firmware/radeon, it'll load, regardles of
what i put in the kernel setup; e.g.


[d530][root][~] dmesg | grep R200
[    0.277947] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode

notwitstanding that the kernel is set up like so...
[d530][root][~] zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i r300
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R300_cp.bin"

  The question is... how do I force Mesa

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so


[   682.172] (EE) AIGLX error: Calling driver entry point failed
[   682.172] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

waltdnes@d531 ~ $ diff d530.txt d531.txt 
5,8c5,8
< model name      : Genuine Intel(R) CPU            2140  @ 1.60GHz
< stepping        : 2
< cpu MHz         : 1596.157
< cache size      : 1024 KB
---
> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4600  @ 2.40GHz
> stepping        : 13
> cpu MHz         : 2400.000
> cache size      : 2048 KB
27c27
< bogomips        : 3191.35
---
> bogomips        : 4788.02
31a32

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>