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* [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9 hate each other?
@ 2004-12-05 19:20 Peter Gaži
  2004-12-05 21:11 ` Holly Bostick
  2004-12-06  3:36 ` cs_snx
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Peter Gaži @ 2004-12-05 19:20 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

hello, 

i recently upgraded my kernel to gentoo-2.6.9 (from 2.6.8) and the
standard after-kernelinstall procedure of emerging ati-drivers didnt
work with the new kernel. All runs as expected but then glxinfo | grep
direct says direct rendering: No. I was wondering if this is related
to the hotplug/coldplug issue, i emerged coldplug, added to default
runlevel, rebooted, but no success. Anybody solved something similar?
I'm using xfree-4.3.0 and i have radeon9000, for any other relevant
info, just ask. :)

Thanks for any help or own experiences.

Peter

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* Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9 hate each other?
  2004-12-05 19:20 [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9 hate each other? Peter Gaži
@ 2004-12-05 21:11 ` Holly Bostick
  2004-12-05 21:24   ` Peter Gaži
  2004-12-06  3:36 ` cs_snx
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Holly Bostick @ 2004-12-05 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Peter Gaži wrote:
> hello, 
> 
> i recently upgraded my kernel to gentoo-2.6.9 (from 2.6.8) and the
> standard after-kernelinstall procedure of emerging ati-drivers didnt
> work with the new kernel. All runs as expected but then glxinfo | grep
> direct says direct rendering: No. I was wondering if this is related
> to the hotplug/coldplug issue, i emerged coldplug, added to default
> runlevel, rebooted, but no success. Anybody solved something similar?
> I'm using xfree-4.3.0 and i have radeon9000, for any other relevant
> info, just ask. :)
> 
> Thanks for any help or own experiences.
> 
> Peter
> 

What driver were you actually using when you re-emerged ati-drivers? I 
have a Radeon 9800 SE and use a 2.6.10 kernel, but of late I've noticed 
that this combo fares badly if I don't actually start up with the vesa 
drivers before re-emerging the ati-drivers (as opposed to starting up 
with the old version of fglrx, which won't load from modules.autoload.d, 
but will kinda half run in some weird fashion using MESA if I start X).

Of course, all is normal after (yet another) reboot, as long as there 
were no "DRM driver not built" errors during the ati-drivers compile 
(lately there have in fact been other warning errors, but the module is 
in fact built and works fairly well).

Also, what version of the ati-drivers are you using? Most of them are 
flakey, but some versions are flakier than others.

HTH,
Holly


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* Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9 hate each other?
  2004-12-05 21:11 ` Holly Bostick
@ 2004-12-05 21:24   ` Peter Gaži
  2004-12-06  2:21     ` Adrien Tougas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Peter Gaži @ 2004-12-05 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

> 
> What driver were you actually using when you re-emerged ati-drivers? I
> have a Radeon 9800 SE and use a 2.6.10 kernel, but of late I've noticed
> that this combo fares badly if I don't actually start up with the vesa
> drivers before re-emerging the ati-drivers (as opposed to starting up
> with the old version of fglrx, which won't load from modules.autoload.d,
> but will kinda half run in some weird fashion using MESA if I start X).
> 
> Of course, all is normal after (yet another) reboot, as long as there
> were no "DRM driver not built" errors during the ati-drivers compile
> (lately there have in fact been other warning errors, but the module is
> in fact built and works fairly well).
> 
> Also, what version of the ati-drivers are you using? Most of them are
> flakey, but some versions are flakier than others.
> 

I use media-video/ati-drivers-3.14.1, the last 'stable' ones in x86
portage tree. So what is your procedure after upgrading a kernel? I
only do

emerge ati-drivers && opengl-update ati

am I missing something? Also I am quite confused of the
UseInternalAGPGart option which is so often mentioned in all the
howtos, how do i determine if i shoud check it?

Thanks for any ideas.

Peter

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* Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9 hate each other?
  2004-12-05 21:24   ` Peter Gaži
@ 2004-12-06  2:21     ` Adrien Tougas
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Adrien Tougas @ 2004-12-06  2:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Peter Gaži; +Cc: gentoo-user

Check that your /usr/src/linux symlink points to your new kernel
sources.

I've found that changing the /usr/src/linux symlink and emerging
ati-drivers is all that I've ever needed to do to get the ati-drivers to
run after a kernel upgrade.

HTH 

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:24 +0100, Peter Gaži wrote:
> I use media-video/ati-drivers-3.14.1, the last 'stable' ones in x86
> portage tree. So what is your procedure after upgrading a kernel? I
> only do
> 
> emerge ati-drivers && opengl-update ati
> 
> am I missing something? Also I am quite confused of the
> UseInternalAGPGart option which is so often mentioned in all the
> howtos, how do i determine if i shoud check it?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> 
> Peter
> 
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* Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9 hate each other?
  2004-12-05 19:20 [gentoo-user] ati-drivers and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9 hate each other? Peter Gaži
  2004-12-05 21:11 ` Holly Bostick
@ 2004-12-06  3:36 ` cs_snx
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: cs_snx @ 2004-12-06  3:36 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

I'm using radeon9000 on my laptop, and I upgraded to
2.6.9-gentoo-r4 and using Xorg-6.8 with DRI support for my
video card, it works pretty good, you can check that out.
ATI driver works no more on Xorg-6.8. 

On 20:20 Sun 05 Dec     , Peter Ga??i wrote:
> hello, 
> 
> i recently upgraded my kernel to gentoo-2.6.9 (from 2.6.8) and the
> standard after-kernelinstall procedure of emerging ati-drivers didnt
> work with the new kernel. All runs as expected but then glxinfo | grep
> direct says direct rendering: No. I was wondering if this is related
> to the hotplug/coldplug issue, i emerged coldplug, added to default
> runlevel, rebooted, but no success. Anybody solved something similar?
> I'm using xfree-4.3.0 and i have radeon9000, for any other relevant
> info, just ask. :)
> 
> Thanks for any help or own experiences.
> 
> Peter
> 
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> 

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