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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 12:32:47
Message-Id: 1146486067.8275.7.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 by Jannis Achstetter
1 On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:21 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote:
2 > You can check your config with "glxinfo | grep direct" which should
3 > return "Yes".
4
5 $ glxinfo | grep direct
6 direct rendering: No
7 OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
8
9 > If it doesn't, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (assuming
10 > we are talking about display "0".
11
12 I see a:
13 (II) LoadModule: "dri"
14 (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
15 (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
16 compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
17 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
18
19 and
20
21 (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
22
23 *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500
24 *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree.
25 *** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available from Mesa CVS.
26 *** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net
27 *** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07.
28
29
30 Don't tell me my 9600 isn't supported by the radeon driver?...
31 also, there's this interesting section that I'm having trouble understanding:
32 (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
33
34 *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500
35 *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree.
36 *** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available from Mesa CVS.
37 *** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net
38 *** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07.
39
40 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
41 drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
42 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
43 drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
44 drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
45 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
46 drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
47 drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 6
48 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
49 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
50 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:00.0"
51 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe13b2000
52 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe13b2000 to 0xb7f07000
53 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf0000000
54 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
55 (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
56 (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
57 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
58 is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
59 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
60 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe13b2000 at 0xb7f07000
61
62 but agpgart and radeon are both "compiled in" to the kernel.
63
64 I heard something about the RV350 or RV300 (not sure) chipset not being
65 supported - is this true?
66
67 thanks,
68 --
69 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
70
71 <Iambe> conning the most intellegent people on the planet is not easy
72
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Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 Jannis Achstetter <jannis_achstetter@×××.de>