DRI and ATI Radeon 7000

E. J. Cerejo ej.cerejo at laposte.net
Mon May 5 07:35:46 PDT 2003



herbert at bugat.at wrote:

>On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:19:52AM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm trying to get DRI working, I'm running FBSD-stable, one of the 
>>latest versions, and I can't get DRI to work.  I have an AGP ATI Radeon 
>>7000 card, and I have a gigabyte motherboard GA-8IRXP ( 
>>http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-8IRXP.htm ) 
>>with an AGP slot specification 2.0 and I followed the instructions on 
>>http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/troubleshooting.html but I test it 
>>by running glxinfo it reports "direct rendering: no".  So I tried the 
>>troubleshooting on that page and here's what I did:
>>
>>If I do dmesg | grep drm it doesn't find anything.
>>
>>If I do kldload radeon it gives me this: kldload: can't load radeon: 
>>Exec format error
>>
>>If I do dmesg | grep agp I get this: link_elf: symbol agp_get_info undefined
>>
>>kldstat shows this:
>>
>>Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>> 1    4 0xc0100000 27ed0c   kernel
>> 2    1 0xc165f000 2000     fade_saver.ko
>> 3    1 0xc1664000 15000    linux.ko
>> 5    1 0xc1820000 d000     msdos.ko
>>
>>Nothing about drm!  I think it has to do with the agp_get_info thing 
>>because I shutdown X that is the message I see in console.
>>
>>Does anyone know on how to fix this?
>>
>>Thanks
>>    
>>
>
>Hei!
>
>Not sure what you have been doing so far. I did the following to get DRI
>working on my FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE system:
>
>1) Get the latest RELENG_4 sources
>2) Adding the following lines to my kernel config:
>         
>   device          agp
>   device          radeondrm
>           
>   (You can find all kernel options or at least most of them in LINT).
>
>3) make buildworld, make buildkernel, etc. as described in UPDATING
>4) Adding the following lines to /etc/X11/XF86Config:
>   
>   Load "glx"
>   Load "dri"
>   
>   Section "DRI"
>   Mode 0666
>   EndSection
>
>5) dmesg reports:
>   agp0: <Intel Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff at
>device 0.0 on pci0
>   drm0: <ATI Radeon QW RV200 7500> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem
>0xe1000000-0xe100ffff,0xd8000000-0xdfffffff irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci1
>   info: [drm] AGP at 0xd0000000 128MB
>   info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Herbert
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Ok thanks,

I got it working now,

device          radeondrm

was missing, those instruction didn't mention anything about it.



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