Re: 2.4.20 DRM/DRI issue with Radeon

Frank Jacobberger (f1j1@xmission.com)
Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:42:19 -0700


Andy Jefferson wrote:

>>>In the 2.4.20 kernel changelog I see comments about having consistent
>>>DRM modules with XFree4.2.0. I have a Radeon Mobility M6 LY in a Dell
>>>laptop and would like to get DRI working. Whenever I use any 2.4.*
>>>(including 2.4.20) kernel I get the following messages in
>>>/var/log/XFree86.0.log, and DRM is not enabled. Is this supposed to be
>>>working in 2.4.20 ? I am using a Mandrake 8.2 system (except for the
>>>kernel).
>>>(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch.
>>>[dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.2.x is needed.
>>>[dri] see http://gatos.sf.net/ for an updated module
>>>[dri] Disabling DRI.
>>>
>>>
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>>Works for me.
>>Debian GNU/Linux unstable distribution
>>
>>You did enable radeon DRM drivers in the kernel config right? For your
>>chipset and for the Radeon, right?
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>Well, yes. I'm getting VERSION CONFLICT messages, and not that there is no radeon.o module. For the record,
>what I get from dmesg is
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>Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
>agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
>agpgart: Detected Intel i830M chipset
>agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
>[drm] AGP 0.99 on Unknown @ 0xd0000000 256MB
>[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 0
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>FWIW I have in the kernel
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>/dev/agpgart set to Module
>I830M support set to Yes
>Build old DRM 4.0 drivers set to No
>DRM 4.1 ATI Radeon set to Module
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>So the version of the kernel module is 1.1.1 20010405 (with 2.4.19, AND 2.4.20) , yet the XFree86 drivers need 1.2.* as per the original message in the XFree86.0.log. Why is the kernel using 1.1.1 and not 1.???
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You need to grab the later drm kernel.

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