I recently installed RH 9.0 and have been working on some challenges with X. Some digging and experimentation has got things mostly working. However, DRM won't load and this has me stumpped for now. Hardware: ASUS TUSI-M, P3 @ 1GHz, SIS 630ET AGP chipset, 512MB RAM w/64MB for video, Samsung 172N flat panel display. RedHat 9.0 w/all RPM's applied. Kernel 2.4.20-18.9 (i686) XFree86 4.3.0-2 (all pkgs are i386) rpm -q --provides kernel-2.4.20-18.9 module-info kernel = 2.4.20 kernel-drm = 4.1.0 kernel-drm = 4.2.0 kernel-drm = 4.3.0 kernel-drm = 4.2.99.3 kernel = 2.4.20-18.9 ls /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ i810.o i830.o mga.o r128.o radeon.o tdfx.o
You did notice that sis.o is on this list, right? :) Nobody on the DRI team has access to any SiS hardware. Because of that the SiS driver, which only supported a couple chips anyway, has fallen waaaaaay out of date. There's a few parts to the open-source drivers. The DRM is the kernel part, and it talks directly to the hardware. In user mode there is (basically) a device specific part and a device independent part (which mostly comes from Mesa). The SiS device specific part is based on Mesa 3.x, and all the other drivers are based on Mesa 5.x. As a result it doesn't get built any more (and wouldn't build if you tried). Sorry.
I have not yet updated the drivers/kernel for the SIS modules beyond what came with RH9 and updated. rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9/kernel/drivers/video/sis/sisfb.o kernel-2.4.20-18.9 The X log shows: (II) SIS(0): SiS driver (31/01/03-1) by Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .net> Right after loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
This is the 2D framebuffer (hence the "fb" part) driver which has nothing to do with the DRM or any of the rest of the 3D driver.
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