well that is not surprising, that there is no DRM... rh7.3 there was no DRMAcquire (either)...the Thomas Winischhofer pages talk about that for the SiS300
I am gonna try to get a new card -- too frustrating with the SiS300 -- apparently they (SiS) keep all info private so XFree86 people have Verrrry hard time to try to deal with this card...A+ for xfree effort. not sure what u mean *no config tho*? ? Thanks for your info...comes in handy and explains some messages...thanks ;) mgolter On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Damian [iso-8859-2] Ko�kowski wrote: > * Melissa Golter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > have tried what u suggest, but unfortutely startx won't work when i do > > that. > > :-) It works for me (with slackware 9.0.0). > > > I even called Sony (Sony doesn't support but sugested that mebbe someone > > had written a patch). I am Not sure why under rh7.3 I Could successfully > > do as you say (albeit with no improvement in performance), but under rh8.0 > > startx crashes. > > > > redhat-config-xfree86 log is attached, included on > > ftp.evl.uic.edu/pub/OUTgoing/mgolter/xfree/ > > There is no config. > > P.S. You have: > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) > drmOpenDevice: Open failed > > So there is no DRM module in the kernel :-) > > .~. # dmesg | grep drm > [drm] AGP 0.99 on VIA Apollo KT400 @ 0xd0000000 128MB > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0 > .~. # > > .~. # cat /proc/fb > 0 Radeon 9000 If > .~. # > > .~. # dmesg | grep radeon > radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=20000 from BIOS > radeonfb: MTRR enabled > radeonfb: ATI Radeon 9000 If DDR SGRAM 64 MB > radeonfb: DVI port no monitor connected > radeonfb: CRT port CRT monitor connected > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0 > .~. # > > Simple test (in X-4.3.0): > > X -configure > > PP.S My XF86Config file is here: > http://deimos.one.pl/ftp/conf/XF86Config_xfree86-4.3.0 > > -- > # Damian *dEiMoS* Ko�kowski # http://deimos.one.pl/ # > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
