Hi Angelo & Mark,
Could you send me your xorg.conf (both before compiz modification
and after) ?
I'd like to see what I can modify in my scripts to make the install
easier.
Thanks,
Erwann
Angelo Rajadurai wrote:
> 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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