On Tue, 02 May 2006 13:15, Nick Rout wrote: > 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:
I googled but obviously with the wrong subject line. > > 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. glxinfo|grep direct direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect I have allready disabled drm in my kernel but it has had no effect > > (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? Maybe I missing something here but I'm on a normal xtra account and use dhcp to connect to the net, please allow for some mistakes on my behalf I've used a computer all of 3 months, thanks.
