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From: Douglas James Dunn <douglas.dj.dunn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:47:26
Message-Id: 1129138629.9984.0.camel@menengroth
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri by gentoo_falstaff
1 I had problems getting 2.6.13 to get working with my vid card went back
2 to 12
3
4 On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 09:08 +0200, gentoo_falstaff wrote:
5 > When I was using kernel 2.6.12 all was fine with these configuration
6 > options:
7 >
8 > <M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
9 > < > ALI chipset support
10 > < > ATI chipset support
11 > < > AMD Irongate, 761, and 762 chipset support
12 > < > AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
13 > <M> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
14 > < > NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support
15 > < > SiS chipset support
16 > < > Serverworks LE/HE chipset support
17 > < > VIA chipset support
18 > < > Transmeta Efficeon support
19 > <M> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
20 > < > 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW)
21 > < > ATI Rage 128 (NEW)
22 > <M> ATI Radeon
23 > < > Intel I810 (NEW)
24 > < > Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G
25 > < > Matrox g200/g400 (NEW)
26 > < > SiS video cards (NEW)
27 >
28 > When I compiled kernel 2.6.13 the AGP support was not recognized anymore
29 > after "modprobe agpgart" or "insmod agpgart" followed by chipset module;
30 > I was still
31 > not using x11-drm package or ati-drivers.
32 >
33 >
34 > Trying to install ati-drivers I found that my card was not supported...
35 > (P.S. after unmerging the package I had to issue the command
36 > opengl-update xorg-x11
37 > to switch back to Mesa opengl, otherwise the simple command "glxinfo"
38 > will exit with errors...)
39 >
40 >
41 > Trying to install x11-drm I had to disable the following options in the
42 > kernel:
43 >
44 > < > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
45 > < > 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW)
46 > < > ATI Rage 128 (NEW)
47 > < > ATI Radeon
48 > < > Intel I810 (NEW)
49 > < > Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G
50 > < > Matrox g200/g400 (NEW)
51 > < > SiS video cards (NEW)
52 >
53 > and I had to setup the variable
54 > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
55 > in /etc/make.conf to compile the package.
56 >
57 > After a correct compilation of kernel and x11-drm, DRI was not running yet!
58 > I tried this options in the kernel:
59 >
60 > <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
61 > < > ALI chipset support
62 > < > ATI chipset support
63 > < > AMD Irongate, 761, and 762 chipset support
64 > < > AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
65 > <*> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
66 > < > NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support
67 > < > SiS chipset support
68 > < > Serverworks LE/HE chipset support
69 > < > VIA chipset support
70 > < > Transmeta Efficeon support
71 > < > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
72 > < > 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW)
73 > < > ATI Rage 128 (NEW)
74 > < > ATI Radeon
75 > < > Intel I810 (NEW)
76 > < > Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G
77 > < > Matrox g200/g400 (NEW)
78 > < > SiS video cards (NEW)
79 >
80 > and all was fine... Direct Rendering up and running!
81 >
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