Hi,

Well, re-enabling gdm was required before the reboot, to ensure it came
back up with a graphical login - as I said, the 3400 doesn't do text
mode very well if the resolution gets played with, and I've been left
with a machine with flashing boxes instead of text a few times too many.
I have rebooted a few times since, including a "reboot -- -r", but I'm
not certain the boot archive has been properly rebuilt, so I'm looking
into that now.

Ta,
Mark.


On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:01 +0000, Darren Kenny wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> The first problem that I see with your instructions on how you installed is 
> that
> after running the install.sh script, the first thing you did was "svcadm 
> enable
> gdm" rather than an full reboot (init 6) - you need the full reboot to ensure
> that the boot archive is correctly updated.
> 
> Darren.
> 
> 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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