Le Jeudi 23 Août 2001 10:42, Jim McCloskey a écrit : > I upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 about a week ago. I'm using XFree 4.0.3 on > a mostly woody system. My graphics card is a Matrox G400. > > Under 2.4.7 and 2.4.8, direct rendering under X worked without a > problem. But under 2.4.9. I get these errors in the XFree log: > . > . > > (EE) MGA(0): [drm] MGADRIScreenInit failed (DRM version = 3.0.2, > expected 2.0.x). Disabling DRI. > (II) MGA(0): Using 6417 lines for offscreen memory. > (II) MGA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) > . > . > > (==) MGA(0): Backing store disabled > (==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled > (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video > (II) MGA(0): direct rendering disabled > > Under 2.4.8 and 2.4.7, there were no error messages (or relevant > warning messages), and direct rendering was enabled. > > It's easy enough to go back to 2.4.8, but I'd like to understand > what's going wrong under 2.4.9. > > Any clues? Thanks in advance. > > Jim AFAIK, 2.4.9 supports XFree 4.1; the newer version is apparently a lot different, hence the drm change in the kernel. 2.4.8/7 had a spot for the 4.0.x versions, with an option to use the 4.1 support instead.
tschou. Eamon Roque
