It's me again,
So, I am now a little bit closer, I got my config file from X -configure and it looks pretty reasonable (very close to what Adam sent me). The /var/log/XFconfig.log also look decent. Still, I have a problem, when I run startx, I get some random, mostly blue,..er... stuff, that slowly stabilize (freeze actually) in a serie of very nice horizontal "waves" (don't know how to describe it better). Then I only can restart the computer whith a Ctrl+Alt+Del (can't even switch to another screen with Ctrl+Alt+F<n>). Has anyone experienced such a thing ? I guess I should modify the modelines, but the config file doesn't contains any (I guess it relies on some predefined builtin set of modelines ?). Any hint, pointer etc... Thanks, Alain On Wednesday 14 November 2001 21:58, Adam Kisiel wrote: > Hi Alain, > > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 00:08, Alain O.Miniussi wrote: > > I explained some of it in the mail but I just restarted from scratch and > > here is the situation: > > > > I downloaded and installed the 2.4.14 kernel, with agp support on and > > drm support off. > > > > I downloaded Xfree 4.1.99.1, compiled it, installed it. I am not sure > > what to do next, but here is what I tried: > > > > According to Adam email, I should get the drm support for the i830 in: > > in Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/ > > If I go there and do a make, it says to run "make -f Makefile.linux" to > > get drm.o > > If I do that, I don't get any drm.o but that is probably just a doc > > glitch, I do get a few .o, among them: > > i810_drv_.o i810_dma.o and i810.o (and nothing else with i8?0 in it) > > Ummmm, Alain - the i830* files have to be there. If You go to XFree86 > CVS web interface > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/ >linux/drm/kernel/ You will clearly see at least theese files : > i830.h > i830_dma.c > i830_drm.h > i830_drv.c > i830_drv.h > if You don't have them - Your cvs checkout was somehow wrong. BTW. How > did You get Your XFree86 4.1.99.1 ? > So please try to get the files there - then using the "make -f > Makefile.linux" command You should generate the i830.o module. > > > i810.i is just i810_drv.o and i810_dma.o linked together so I guess I > > can forget those two and that i810.o is the drm module I need and > > should go somewhere in /lib/module/2.4.14/..../char/ > > Yes, that's where I have put my i830.o module. Remember to launch a > "depmod -a" after copying the file and load it ("modprobe i830") before > You start X. > > > I really don't know what to do next. > > Even if You don't succeed in getting the i830 drm module working - > don't worry - X will work without it, only with degraded performance. > You can simply use the XF86Config file I enclosed in my previous e-mail. > > > Note that there is not a single file with i830 in it's name in the whole > > tree. > > That is really weird - You should at least have the files I mentioned > earlier and a couple of "i830*" files in: > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i81 >0/ > > Again I am really surprised that You don't have them. Please make sure > You got them , otherwise Your X version doesn't differ that much from > 4.1.0 that You have already tried. > > > Do you know if there is any documentation on how to deal with that chip ? > > Have hope - it really can be done :) > Adam _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
