On Saturday 12 July 2003 18:57, Rus Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro running with XFree86
> (version 4.2.1) in Debian Unstable. After reading the readmes, I turned
> the fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm into a deb with alien and
> installed it. I rolled my own kernel (2.5.73), and tried to build the
> FireGL kernel modules which failed (make.log at end of text). As these
> modules shouldn't be necessary for the card to work minimally I carried
> on. I ran fglrxconfig to configure the XFree86-4. Now when I run
> 'startx' all that happens is I get a black screen which stays there
> until I hit ctrl-F1 which drops me back to the shell.
Until you get the DRM module to compile, try
Option "no_dri" "yes"
and disable loading the dri module in your XF86Config. That way, it should not
be dependent on DRM.
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