Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:26:57 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Direct rendering doesn't work with Xorg 6.8.1 Message-ID: <20041224132657.GA13792@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <41CC1369.9010202@icionline.ca> References: <20041223211404.GB1879@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <41CB38F3.5050804@icionline.ca> <20041223231907.GA4623@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20041224110532.GA9753@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <41CC1369.9010202@icionline.ca>
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--1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.=20 > > > >Forcebly removing the dri package, and adding it again solved the proble= m. > > > >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 >=20 > Well, after installing graphics/dri (oops!) glxinfo still reports direct > rendering: No. I am getting a warning though: >=20 > (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) fo= und 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".=20 > drm0@pci1:0:0: class=3D0x030000 card=3D0x7c13174b chip=3D0x59601002 rev= =3D0x01 > hdr=3D0x00 > vendor =3D 'ATI Technologies Inc.' > device =3D 'Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280)' > class =3D display > subclass =3D VGA > none2@pci1:0:1: class=3D0x038000 card=3D0x7c12174b chip=3D0x59401002 rev= =3D0x01 > hdr=3D0x00 > vendor =3D 'ATI Technologies Inc.' > device =3D 'Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280) - Secondary' > class =3D display >=20 > 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 --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBzBkhEnfvsMMhpyURAoO3AKCWzyzfVv21dUj6ugnlk6i8LKSj5ACbBind mkVIlfaNb2Tnb0GvirVwBqc= =plLG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--
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