Yes, I had a simular problem, rebooted and every thing was fine. I got my kernel mod from cvs (and patched it heavily to support devfs) then I got the rest of DRM from http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/radeon-20020710-linux.i386.tar.bz2 I have a 7500 QW though.
I'l get my 8500 ought of that windowz box and run some tests, K. --- Michal Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem when I start X with dri and the radeon_drv module loaded > I lose my video signal I can still log onto the system remotely and get > the log from the startup, here is where is stops. > > <snip> > (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB AGP aperture > (II) RADEON(0): Using 1 MB for the ring buffer > (II) RADEON(0): Using 2 MB for vertex/indirect buffers > (II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for AGP textures > (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1600,2514) > (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1200) to (1600,1202) > (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1600 x 1312 > (II) RADEON(0): Reserved back buffer at offset 0xf5a000 > (II) RADEON(0): Reserved depth buffer at offset 0x16ad000 > (II) RADEON(0): Reserved 34816 kb for textures at offset 0x1e00000 > (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled > (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled > <\snip> > > As you can see it doesn't continue with loading the XAA driver and > input devices, the X sits there using 99.9% of my cpu. I must say I'm > using 4.2.99.1, the latest cvs from xfree (testing the new xft library). > If I disable dri or do not load the agpgart, radeon modules then it goes > into x windows fine, without dri support of course. > > Oh I also tried it on a clean dri trunk from the cvs and it did > the same thing. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, I copied the > binary files from dripkg into the appropriate directories. > > Here is a snip from my config file > > <snip> > Section "Device" > Identifier "ATI Radeon 8500" > Driver "radeon" > EndSection > </snip> > > Great beginning, keep up the good work everyone. If you need any > information I would be more than willing to help, I'm looking forward to > getting this board working under linux. > > Cheers > Mike > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Two, two, TWO treats in one. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Two, two, TWO treats in one. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
