There is no DRI support for ATI Radeon 4xxx cards in any build yet.
I'm not sure there's any DRI support for ATI Radeon cards that new
even in the latest DRI experimental/development codebase for Linux.
That log though shows using the "radeon" driver instead of "vesa" -
perhaps if you posted your entire Xorg.0.log to xwin-discuss you
could get some more help there.
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?
>
> thanks in avdance.
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