Greetings fellow laptop users! I recently installed Debian Woody (stable/testing/unstable) w/linux 2.4.18 kernel on my new (to me) IBM Thinkpad A30p. This laptop has an ATI Mobility Radeon LY 32M AGP graphics card.
I installed all of the necessary DRI and DRM stuff, and it's enabled in my XF86Config-4, but I'm still having mucho troublo getting Direct Rendering to work. So... I (using tcsh) 'setenv LIBGL_DEBUG verbose' and ran glxinfo and this is what I got: ----- begin glxinfo output ----- [20:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/var/log]% glxinfo name of display: :0.0 libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 4.0.1 radeon libGL: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so libGL: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 Slow 0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x26 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x27 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x28 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 Slow 0x29 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x2a 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow ----- end glxinfo output ----- Any ideas? It appears to me that radeon_dri.so is not loading properly (because it appears twice!) and I'm wondering if this is because the radeon module doesn't match the Xfree version? ----- begin version stuff ----- libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 4.0.1 radeon XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 20030225230350 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System ----- end version stuff ----- I get NO ERRORS (EE) in my /var/log/XFree86.0.log. DRI seems to initialize fine: ----- begin Xfree86.0.log stuff ----- (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete [20:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/var/log]% grep DRM XFree86.0.log (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler [20:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/var/log]% ----- end Xfree86.0.log stuff ----- Any help appreciated! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net