have you googled? I did and found this within 2 minutes: http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive42-2005-8-223735.html
It suggests that you need to take DRM out of the kernel. On Tue, 02 May 2006 13:33:59 +1200 atenjd wrote: >... I'm hoping you might be able to help > me get OpenGL working propeperly on my Gentoo amd64 installation with > intergrated ati radeon x200 graphics, X starts but direct rendering wont, > when I look at dmesg I get this line: > > [fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Unable to the open some already present > DRM kernel module! have you googled? I did and found this within 2 minutes: http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive42-2005-8-223735.html It suggests that you need to take DRM out of the kernel. Presumably the kernel drm and drm as supplied by ATI do not mix. but before you do that, when X is running type the following in an X terminal glxinfo|grep direct and see what it says. > > (I think I recompiled the kernel correctly)Having experience limited to a few > months, I tryed adding the fglrx module to modules.autoload.d but I'm having > difficulties getting it to load at boot up, this is the output I get from > fglrxinfo which only works when I eselect opengl set ati: > fglrxinfo > display: :0.0 screen: 0 > OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect > OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1) > > and > fglrxinfo | grep direct > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect > > no mention of direct rendering.Next is potentially a silly question but I'll > ask it anyway, after a fresh gentoo installation I had problems getting > dhcpcd to connect to xtra, so I changed my localhost name back to one of the > two previous ones I used in the previous installation, and either one works, > it connects no problem, is this strange behaviour? > > Thanks very much for any help. What are you trying to connect to? I wasn't aware xtra provided an ethernet based system. who/what is providing your DHCP service? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
