Hi Mark,

"reboot -r" doesn't rebuild the archive AFAIK, but maybe that has changed....

You may need to go into a failsafe now ;(

In installing the drivers you're also installing new text-mode drivers, do maybe
it might change... ;)

Darren.

Mark R. Bowyer wrote:
> 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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