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. :-( 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. :-) -- There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. -- Nathaniel Branden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
