Hey Mark:

I got it to work on my 3400. I'm on snv_78. Pretty straight forward.
I downloaded the radeon 3D driver from 
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/dri/files/

I had to copy the /etc/X11/.xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then add
Option  "BusType"       "PCI"

Then I rebooted and installed compiz with the --with-experimental-ati- 
support
option. It feels pretty zappy even with  the 1GB mem I have on the  
system.

Let me know if need more info

-Angelo


On Jan 25, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Mark R. Bowyer wrote:

> 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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