Umm, thanks for your frank assessment. So which is the lesser of evils - using the AMD/ATI proprietary drivers for 3D, or totally rebuilding my system from the ground up? I presume that I will still have to mess around to get things going. I've fooled around with this a few days now, I don't like wasting my time - I have plenty to do.
If I were to do this from the ground up, which distro to choose? Why slackware? Why not Gentoo? I suppose I can have a daily overnight update and recompile everything for the morning. I had originally wanted a relatively stable system. It appears I can't get any work done with a stable system :( Any other solutions available? Second opinion? Anyone? Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Coleman Kane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:37 PM To: Labitt, Bruce Cc: Arc Riley; gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: RE: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running? On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:19 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote: > Arc led me to believe that I did not have to do that yet. He said that > the drm did not support radeonhd yet. > > Believe me, this is more complicated than I had anticipated... :) > > Here is the logfile > First of all, I can tell just by looking at this log output that you are in for a long headache. Your X server is over 2 years old, and won't be able to support DRI on the radeonhd. Your X server might not even support AIGLX on many of the drivers that will work with its older DRI implementation today. The latest X server is v1.4.1, and you are using v1.1.1. The oldest one that will support DRI using radeonhd is v1.4.99.something, from the v1.5 snapshots branch in the xorg-server git repository. Basically, you are trying to use a brand new driver for a brand new piece of hardware with an ancient installation of X-Windows. If your distro at least had a v1.4+ X-server, you might be able to get by just by rebuilding about five modules. Likely, you will need to rebuild almost all of X from scratch, and try to make sure that it doesn't accidentally bring in headers from the old X installation. IOW, to get it working on your system, you are in for a wild ride. It is probably easier to just install Slackware and start from scratch. Furthermore, if you do get all of the latest X stuff, you'll need to disable 2D acceleration in order to allow 3D acceleration to work on the latest driver IIRC. I strongly suggest you get in touch with the radeonhd mailing list as well. > X Window System Version 7.1.1 > Release Date: 12 May 2006 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 x86_64 Red Hat, Inc. > Current Operating System: Linux xxx.xxxx.xxx 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen #1 SMP > Wed Jun 25 12:56:52 EDT 2008 x86_64 > Build Date: 12 June 2008 > Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1 > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Module Loader present > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jul 9 15:02:06 2008 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
