radeon not getting drm

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 475

i've got x 4.3 installed. i've got a radeon 7000 card. i have kernel radeon support. i had drm/dri working a few weeks back (when i did my initial install). i do not have dri now. in my x log i have a message about incompatible version numbers for the kernel modules (1.1 when 1.3 was expected maybe). i have 2.4.20 kernel installed.

has anyone encountered this?

can i tell xfree to ignore the version numbers?

is there an updated kernel driver available? (i've emerged xfree-drm, but that didn't help maybe i had radeon build into the kernel and not as a module, i can't recall).

how can i check the kernel version number for this module?

dwerg · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:06 pm Post subject:

The version mismatch seems to be the problem. You can download a newer version the drm on http://dri.sf.net and http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/

stimuli · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 12:58 am Post subject:

emerge xfree-drm

do this every time you install a new kernel, as make modules_install will overwrite your newer DRM modules.

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 475

i tried to emerge that, but it still doesn't help. guess i'll try grabbing the source for 4.3 but that s/b the same as emerge.....

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[dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but 1.3.1 or later is preferred.
(II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
root@expresso angie # emerge -s xfree-drm
Searching...
[ Results for search key : xfree-drm ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* x11-base/xfree-drm
Latest version available: 4.3.0
Latest version installed: 4.3.0
Size of downloaded files: 196 kB
Homepage: http://www.xfree.org
Description: Xfree86 Kernel DRM modules

root@expresso angie #
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dberkholz · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 5:52 am Post subject:

The radeon module version problem usually occurs when the radeon driver is enabled in your kernel (which has an old version) instead of just using xfree-drm (which contains the new version. Check out this thread.