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From: Fernando Meira <fmeira@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:39:35
Message-Id: a3c2e88b0510110234o67d76f8au7c100292a91d80d0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri by gentoo_falstaff
1 On 10/11/05, gentoo_falstaff <gentoo_falstaff@×××××××.it> wrote:
2 >
3 > On my laptop with a Mobility Radeon M7 on I noticed the same problem
4 > after a kernel recompilation (2.6 series ~x86 flag); that is I had
5 > Direct Rendering switched off.
6 > I was compiling AGP as a kernel module.
7 > Actually I solved the problem compiling AGP directly in the kernel with
8 > the chipset code too.
9 > I'm also using x11-drm to obtain the correct Radeon driver compiled as a
10 > module.
11
12
13 Ok, good.. I'll do the same!! That or leave it radeon as module and not
14 built in as it is now.
15 Hopefully I'll have time to try that this afternoon.
16 I'm using x11-drm because the HOWTO mentioned that for 2.6-kernel it should
17 be..
18 If the first option doesn't solve my problem, I'll also give x11-drm a
19 try...
20
21 I made an attempt to use ati-drivers package but I found that it doesn't
22 > complain my card anymore.
23
24
25 Yah, same problem here!
26
27 Cheers,
28 Fernando