Direct rendering doesn't work with Xorg 6.8.1

[James Earl]

Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:19:07AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:30:27PM -0700, James Earl wrote:
>>
>>>Roland Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>>After upgrading to 6.8.1, direct rendering stopped working. According to
>>>>the X logfile, direct rendering is enabled:
>>>>
>>>>(relevant portion from the logfile)
>>>>
>>>>Roland
>>>
>>>Same here.  I also had this problem with 6.7.0.
>>>
>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-December/002811.html
>>>
>>>It does feels like DRI is still working (at least 2D)... I haven't 
>>>tested any OpenGL apps though.
>>
>>AFAIK, DRI is only concerned with 3D. It has little or nothing to do
>>with the 2D drivers. 
>>
>>It used to work for me on 6.7.0, after fixing
>>/usr/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_os_freebsd.h.
>>
>>I removed xorg 6.8.1 and dri, and installed the old 6.7.0 packages from
>>the CD, but that didn't fix the problem. :-(
> 
> 
> I just found out what happened. :-) The dri package that contains the
> accellerated drivers was registered as installed, but hadn't actually
> installed the drivers. 
> 
> Forcebly removing the dri package, and adding it again solved the problem.
> 
> I discovered this by doing a ktrace on glxinfo, and then looking through
> the tracefile with kdump. As soon as I saw that it failed to load
> r200_dri.so (for my radeon card) I knew there was something wrong. And
> indeed /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/ was empty.
> 
> So now I've got 6.7.0 working again. I'll try updating to 6.8.1 after
> xmas.
> 
> Roland

Well, after installing graphics/dri (oops!) glxinfo still reports direct
rendering: No.  I am getting a warning though:

(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

drm0 at pci1:0:0:  class=0x030000 card=0x7c13174b chip=0x59601002 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
     vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc.'
     device   = 'Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280)'
     class    = display
     subclass = VGA
none2 at pci1:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x7c12174b chip=0x59401002 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
     vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc.'
     device   = 'Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280) - Secondary'
     class    = display

What's this Secondary device for?

James