> Hello all, > > I have a Sapphire Radeon 9800 SE graphic card. I tried to install the > DRM provided by minskey. > But I have a problem, when I rebooted the computer, it tell me that: > "DRM current don't support this graphic card." > > I searched a bit in the sourcecode provided by minskey, and I found in > the card list that my graphic card is not listed. > I added it, but I have a problem, I do not know how compile the > sourcecode in order to have a beautiful new libdrm :'( > > If somebody can help me, my graphic card ID's are : 0x4148 and 0x4168 > (secondary head). > > Regards, > > Damien
Hello Damien, I think we can walk you through. First of all you need to start here: #Get ON# http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/ #Learn how to build it, and give it a try# http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ #Now cd inside the ON src tree and apply Minskey's great patches# (This step could normally also come first, before you start the initial build) gpatch -p0 < yourpatchfilehere.patch (for more info, always feel free to ask this list on demand) #do an incremental re-build# (not necessarily with nightly, but rather set up a ON build environment with "bldenv ./opensolaris.sh" Then go to the one drm subdir wich contains the Makefile, then issue "make clean;make && make install" This will install your fresh drm driver into your proto area. From there copy it onto a real system and reload the driver with "update_drv -v radeon" (drm module is a dependency of it in misc). Or just reboot. Much luck, and always feel free to keep in touch. BTW, list: I'm currently busy with Indiana_SPARC and conary, but back in early January I changed Miskey's excellent Radeon_DRM port to make it compile as part of OS/Net_SPARC, this was easy. The main hurdle is the low level interface to the console driver, as vgatext makes no real sense on SPARC. Yet for "pfb" I don't have the src. Well, with binutils you manage to find similar sounding function names, but I don't have their prototypes either. So it would all be about guessing. That's where I have stopped so far. Afterwards I burned lots of time with trying to make progress with the Xsun-ddx wrapper, and then came the conary port already, and now SPARC-Indiana. Minor glitch: On x86 I witnessed the serious performance problem of Minskey's current radeon DRM port, just as he had mentioned back then. I browsed Xorg-devel's archives and found out, that this problem also occurred on other OS's in the past, such as on Debian3_x86. But my focus is to first get it working *at all* on SPARC. Only about 8 vgatext functions are affected, we need to establish similar functionality on SPARC, which the radeon module depends on. I have not given up on this, only deferred it a bit. But actually it looks quite promising. %martin
