Hi,
I've been having fun trying to get this working on my Ferrari 3400.
Anyone else had any luck?
Firstly, the driver installer needs to be run without Xorg running. And
the 3400 can't work in text console mode, so I had to ssh in from an
iMac. That worked ok - "svcadm disable gdm"; "install.sh install";
"svcadm enable gdm".
I then install compiz. The wget script to check if it would run said
no, because at that stage I'd not edited my xorg.conf, so the radeon
driver wasn't in. But the compiz installer does that.
My next problem was that I was using Darren's multi headed xorg.conf,
and DRI isn't compatible with multiple heads yet. So I tried out the
SingleLayout and the CloneLayout, and neither worked much better. Mind
you, the:
Option "AIGLX" "True"
is only added to the currently active layout by the installers, so that
needed adding.
My main problem seems to be that neither drm nor radeon are being
modloaded by the kernel. I can "modload -p misc/drm" OK, but "modload
-p drv/radeon" fails with "can't load module: No such device or
address". Which is odd, because it shows in prtconf -v as:
value='pci1002,4e50.1025.57.0' +
'pci1002,4e50.1025.57' + 'pci1025,57' + 'pci1002,4e50.0' +
'pci1002,4e50' + 'pciclass,030000' + 'pciclass,0300'
and:
9 ]grep 4e50 driver*
driver_aliases:radeon "pci1002,4e50"
So it should work, no? I've done a "reboot -- -r" and that didn't help.
Xorg finds my card and it's supported by *its* radeon driver. Until
(from /var/log/Xorg.0.log):
:
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 (M10/M11) NP
(AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4e50)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xd8000000
(II) RADEON(0): AGP card detected
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.
:
/dev/dri exists since I modloaded the drm module, but didn't before.
And it's empty =O(
Anyone got any further ideas?
Ta,
Mark.
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:19 +0100, Erwann Chenede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've updated my compiz easy install bundle and my configuration
> check script to support
> the ATI radeon driver developed by Minskey.
>
> So far it's only been tested on Ferrari 4000 laptop.
>
> Details can be found here :
> http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/ati_support_for_compiz_easy
>
> Cheers,
>
> Erwann
>
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