The DRM module from the DRI CVS seems to work fine in 2.4.4.
(The one in the kernel however does seem to be broken.)
Zephaniah E. Hull.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:50:55AM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Brian Paul wrote:
>
> > You generally need a 2.4.x kernel for the current DRI drivers.
> > 2.2.x might still work for the tdfx driver but I haven't
> > tried that in a long time.
>
> It looks broken with 2.4.4 and 4.0.3:
>
> (WW) TDFX(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xe0000000,0x2000000)
> (II) TDFX(0): Textures Memory 7.93 MB
> (0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) TDFX(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI.
> (II) TDFX(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
>
> [root@dogfox /root]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> ppp_deflate 40736 0 (autoclean)
> bsd_comp 4192 0 (autoclean)
> ppp_async 6384 1 (autoclean)
> ppp_generic 13424 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp
> ppp_async]
> hid 11680 0 (unused)
> es1371 25872 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> soundcore 4048 4 (autoclean) [es1371]
> ac97_codec 8608 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
> tdfx 53328 0 (unused)
> agpgart 12992 1
> nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 4384 1 (autoclean)
> vfat 9392 1 (autoclean)
> fat 31680 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
> reiserfs 154544 1 (autoclean)
> usb-uhci 21808 0 (unused)
> usbcore 48880 1 [hid usb-uhci]
>
>
> Oh yeah, and APM seems to damage the server, e.g. the xbanner image on the
> login screen disappears (just a plain background) and the mouse pointer
> flashes. Switching VCs clears these problems. Probably an XFree problem.
>
> If you need any info just ask - not that I particularly care, the sooner I
> get rid of this piece of crap card the better...
>
>
> My system:
>
> Creative Banshee
> VIA KX133 Athlon Board
>
>
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