On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 18:24, Martin Maney wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:56:13PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote: > > new Radeon card running. :-) Speaking of the Radeon, that's one glitch I > > had to deal with. It works fine if I have the DRI module (from 2.4.19-rc1) > > loaded before I startx; otherwise the startup fails. > > Someone wrote to ask me for particulars about this, and I seem to have lost > his email, somehow, when I decided that I could afford the time to try to > replicate it and get the actual error reported. Either that or tin lost > it... Nah, it was probably me. :-(
That's one of the things there are list archives for. :) > Anyway, I can't replicate this now. The radeon.o module is not being loaded > automagically, but that just causes the X server to report that it's not > using DRI. I'm not sure what I saw four days ago. Maybe I was > misattributing the errors I saw before I learned that 4.1 just didn't > support this card. Or perhaps it was caused by not having agpgart loaded, > which modprobing radeon would have corrected; however, that seems all but > impossible, as agpgart has been loaded at boot time (via /etc/modules) for a > long time now. It's a puzzlement. > > So all that I can replicate, now, is that contrary to the description in > section 5 of the README.DRI, the X server does not automatically load the > kernel DRI module. One caveat: I'm running this under a kernel with a long > name that distinguishes the versions of some patches it has applied. Could > it be that the X loader doesn't like decorated version numbers? I guess > 2.4.19-rc1-pkt.p4-pe.p9 *is* a bit baroque. :-) Ha, mine is longer! ;) And still it gets autoloaded. (The X server uses /sbin/modprobe for loading it) agpgart is usually the problem with this, but not in your case it seems... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
