Hi,

Damn - that was it!  My drm and radeon drivers are now installed, and
I've got compiz and emerald running on my 3400, just like on my Ultra20.
=O)

Thanks to everyone, and if anything needs to be changed, then maybe a
comment should be added to the driver loaders explaining that "bootadm
update_archive" needs to be run afterwards - or even run it in the
script, as frkit does?  I don't tend to use init 6 to reboot, and I'm
sure many others don't either (I'm a big fan of poweroff or "uadmin 2 0"
- they're so much faster, and fine in most all circumstances).

Ta,
Mark.




On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:11 +0000, Darren Kenny wrote:
> 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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