Direct rendering doesn't work with Xorg 6.8.1

[James Earl]

Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:02:33AM -0700, James Earl wrote:
> 
>>>>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
> 
> 
> I get the same warning, but I don't think it matters very much, because
> the lines before say (in my case):
> 
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> 
> I'd guess that the warning just says, "you're not using the secondary
> device 1:0:1". 
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> I get more or less the same message, with a different card-id. My card
> has two connectors, a VGA connector and a DVI connector. I'm using the
> VGA connector. Maybe the second device has to do with the unused connector?
> 
> Roland

Hmm... I'm using the DVI connector.

James