From: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
To: Lars Roland <lroland@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:22:37 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510102221320.26127@innerfire.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ad99e050510101200m6f3e1abh7ff8fb6b08b3c0e6@mail.gmail.com>
I found the problem.. there is no entry in pciids.h for my card:
0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
0000:05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon
X300SE]
0000:05:00.0 0300: 1002:5b60
0000:05:00.1 0380: 1002:5b70
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Lars Roland wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:00:42 +0200
> From: Lars Roland <lroland@gmail.com>
> To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Direct Rendering drivers for ATI X300 ?
>
> On 10/10/05, Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if there are working open source DRM drivers that work
> > on recent 2.6.x kernels for the ATI X300? I've tried dri.sourceforge.net
> > and r300 but neither seems to even bother compiling. I've spent several
> > hours on google without luck.
> >
> > Gerhard
>
> What are your dmesg reporting, when loading the modules, if you see
> something along these lines:
>
> -------------------
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
> PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:8000000@c0000000 for device 0000:01:00.0
> [drm] Initialized radeon 1.19.0 20050911 on minor 0:
> [drm] Used old pci detect: framebuffer loaded
> mtrr: 0xc0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xc0000000,0x4000000
> [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Cannot use PCI Express without GART in
> FB memory
> -------------------
>
> then you may have hit a possible x300/pci express issue - other than
> that I have it working perfectly here with kernel 2.6.14rc1, Quake3 is
> playable (although I am experiencing some minor problems with MergedFB
> combined with 3D gaming). I have written a small guide for Gentoo that
> explains how to get DRI/DRM working with R300 (and newer cards) all
> though you may not use Gentoo it should be very easy to get it working
> on other distributions:
>
> The guide is here:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374745-highlight-r300.html
>
>
> --------------
> Regards.
>
> Lars Roland
>
--
Gerhard Mack
gmack@innerfire.net
<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 16:34 Gerhard Mack
2005-10-10 16:41 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-10 16:49 ` Benoit Boissinot
2005-10-10 16:56 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-10 16:51 ` Gerhard Mack
2005-10-10 16:56 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-10 17:08 ` Gerhard Mack
2005-10-10 19:00 ` Lars Roland
2005-10-11 0:26 ` Dave Airlie
2005-10-11 2:23 ` Gerhard Mack
2005-10-11 5:57 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-10-11 7:13 ` Dave Airlie
2005-10-11 20:01 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-10-11 2:22 ` Gerhard Mack [this message]
2005-10-11 23:34 Nicolas Mailhot
2005-10-12 2:38 ` Marek W
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