Kernel 2.6Beta with DRI?

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Elleomea · Post by **Elleomea** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:46 pm

In the past I've had problems using DRI with my system due to the fact I've got a Radeon 9000 and an nForce 2 board. The latest 2.6Beta has specific support for the nForce 2's odd AGP problems, so I decided this might be useful. So far I haven't had any problems with the kernel itself, everything runs perfectly well as it did under 2.4. But DRI still doesn't work

. Before I used to get a string of errors complaining about a series of different things, now I only get one:

(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.

Which isn't very descriptive

I'm wondering if I should recompile X now that I'm using a new kernel? Also do I need to emerge xfree-drm? Because it doesn't seem to want to compile with 2.6

Thanks for any help

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iceman9722 · Post by **iceman9722** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:24 pm

I think the Radeon 9000 is at least R200, so you'll want to use ati-drivers and not xfree-drm.

Anyway, xfree-drm won't compile with kernel 2.6. It's not a bug, it just won't work. If you had a card that should use xfree-drm (which I'm pretty sure you don't), you would have to use the kernel DRM.

Anyway. You won't be able to compile ati-drivers for 2.6, or if you do, they won't help. The ati-drivers package is for 2.4. In other words, you're SOL until an ati-drivers comes out for 2.6.

Elleomea · Post by **Elleomea** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:15 pm

Oh well, I've waited this long, I can wait longer, thanks

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MGMorden · Post by **MGMorden** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:31 pm

Crap. I was coming on here to ask about this same thing. Does that mean that those of us with Radeons and kernel 2.6 are stuck with Vesa drivers for now?

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:06 pm

Not necessarily. It depends on your card. I've got a 9800, and it works fine in 2D on 2.6 using the radeon driver in the kernel. ATI did briefly release a new set of FireGL drivers with version number 3.2.03 a couple of days ago, which do work with 2.6, but they got pulled after a couple of hours for some reason

It does seem to indicate that the next release will be 2.6 compatible though.

samppa · Post by **samppa** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 7:18 pm

2.6.0-test1 works without problems with DRI (at least for radeon 9000 mobility that I have). You don't need to emerge xfree-drm, because 2.6 kernel series itself contains the DRM modules that you need to select when you compile the kernel (it's all under the character devices on kernel config). I have been using 2.5 development kernels since december and 3D has worked without problems most of the time.

I don't know if that nforce2 chipset is well supported, but at least my SiS chipset is well supported by kernel agpgart.