here's an update: the "Warning: Driver (radeon) successfully added to system but failed to attach" was because silly me didn't reboot the machine (thanks to minskey for the tip), after rebooting, there's a valid entry in /dev/dri/card0, pointing to the correct devfs device like this:
card0 -> ../../devices/pci at 0,0/pci8086,1a31 at 1/display at 0:drm0 And X is attempting to load the radeon module as well, but fails with: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 9 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:00.0" (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at dbb05000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA dbb05000 to 0 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = e2c1d000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA dbb05000 at 0 checking the modinfo: 92 f9df4000 190d0 92 1 radeon (radeon DRM driver) 93 f9e09000 7cbc - 1 drm (DRM common interfaces %I%) 94 f9e11000 1234 - 1 agpmaster (AGP master interfaces) 165 fa196000 4b24 109 1 agpgart (AGP driver) So, the problem seems to be the order in which modules are loaded, after googling for a few days, i turned up absolutely nothing useful on the subject of how to make some modules load before the others. i've tried "forceload: drv/agpgart" in /etc/system, but it didn't help. coming from penguin boxes, i know of a very nice /etc/modules.conf, where it's possible to manually specify which modules to load when and in what order. Does anybody know how to do the same on opensolaris ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
