Keith Kee wrote: > Hi: > I am running sxce 117 and sxce 119 on my new Dell Studio XPS computer. It > seems to come up fine, but X windows is using the VESA driver with no DRI > instead of the radeon or radeonHD driver. Here is the excerpt of the > Xorg.0.log: > > (II) RADEON(0): Framebuffer space used by Firmware (kb): 20 > (II) RADEON(0): Start of VRAM area used by Firmware: 0x7ffec > (II) RADEON(0): AtomBIOS requests 20kB of VRAM scratch space > (II) RADEON(0): AtomBIOS VRAM scratch base: 0x7ffec > (II) RADEON(0): Cannot get VRAM scratch space. Allocating in main memory > instead > (II) RADEON(0): Default Engine Clock: 750000 > (II) RADEON(0): Default Memory Clock: 873000 > (II) RADEON(0): Maximum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Output: 1200000 > (II) RADEON(0): Minimum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Output: 0 > (II) RADEON(0): Maximum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Input: 16000 > (II) RADEON(0): Minimum Pixel ClockPLL Frequency Input: 6000 > (II) RADEON(0): Maximum Pixel Clock: 400000 > (II) RADEON(0): Reference Clock: 27000 > 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. > (II) RADEON(0): using shadow framebuffer > > Is there anything I did wrongly with my installation? Would installing the > latest opensolaris resolve this issue? >
I'd suggest consulting with the X windows experts over on xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org, as they're better able to answer this sort of question. Dave
