[ltp] X.org 7.0, radeonfb and T41p

[Andreas Ntaflos]

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On Saturday 20 May 2006 19:29, Bernhard Sputh wrote:
> Yes here R50p with X.org 7.0 and radeonfb, runs smoothly, after
> debian integrated the patches to the radeon driver.

Thanks for the replies so far!

Unfortunately there were no patches integrated to the radeon driver in=20
Gentoo so apparently the only possibility is to use Gentoo's hard=20
masked X.org 7.1 packages (X.org released 7.1 on Monday, apparently).

The problem I am facing on my T41p is that starting the X server with=20
modules dri, glx and drm loaded, as well as drm.ko and radeon.ko as=20
kernel modules (Character Devices->Direct Rendering Manager) completely=20
freezes the machine. It's not even accessible via ssh anymore.

Not using dri on the other hand seems to be working fine; I haven't=20
experienced any lock ups so far and that's a good thing.

However I would like to be able to use at least some of the improved=20
hardware acceleration the new X.org releases feature so there still=20
seem to be many things to work out.

Are the kernel modules really necessary? Apparently yes, since=20
Xorg.0.log has some (EE) errors complaining about not being able to=20
load drm.ko and radeon.ko. Do these kernel modules need updateing in=20
order to work with X.org 7.1?

Is there anybody else here using 7.1 or one of the RCs?
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Andreas "daff" Ntaflos=20
daff AT dword DOT org
Vienna, Austria=20

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