[ltp] Radeon/ATI driver fixed in Debian/Sid

[Hamish Marson]

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Carlos Moffat wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:56 +0100, Hamish Marson wrote:
>

> Carlos Moffat wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody,
>
>> In case you're interested, a new version of the ATI driver was
>> uploaded to Debian last night. The new version fixes (at least in
>> my t42p) the freeze with Xorg 6.9/7 that had forced me to stay
>> with 6.8.2 or the fglrx driver.
>
> Well, I just updated & managed to startx & then startup thunderbird
> without crashing (Usually it locked up about the time the first
> xterm started after KDE came up).
>
> Looks a lot beter so far. Now to try & get DRI working... Hmmm...
> Did the r300 stuff get included? (Not that I've looked yet).Hope
> so, it works fine on my gentoo box with a saphire card.
>
>
>> Well, DRI is not enabled:
>
>> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (II) RADEON(0): Render
>> acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer. (II)
>> RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
>
>
>> Is this what you mean?
>

Yes, that's what I mean, except that DRI is disabled on your system
for some other reason... Maybe the dri module isn't being loaded in
your xorg.conf file.

On mine I get as far as


(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 8, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 8
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:00.0"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xd9a1a000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xd9a1a000 to 0x6f8a0000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe0000000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
is loaded before the radeon kernel module.


Which I've had before,  due to exactly what it says (radeon loading
before intel_agp). I'm going to play a bit & see what I can get it to
do...

H

>> Carlos
>
>
> H
>
>> Cheers, Carlos
>
>
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