On Tuesday 03 Jan 2006 18:02, Ian Romanick wrote: > David Mulcahy wrote: > > I have been experiencing problems getting drm to work again with my > > matrox g4oo card. The problem started around this post. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8163981&forum_id=7 > >177 > > > > Now although That particular problem has stopped I still cannot get drm > > working again. I have a current kernel 2.6.14 and a new xorg "X Protocol > > Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9" but still no drm. > > > > This appears in the xlog > > > > (**) Option "dpms" > > (**) MGA(0): DPMS enabled > > (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video > > (II) MGA(0): X context handle = 0x1 > > (II) MGA(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler > > (II) MGA(0): [DRI] installation complete > > (EE) MGA(0): [drm] Failed to map DMA buffers list > > (II) MGA(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel > > (II) MGA(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0a27000 at 0xb6192000 > > (WW) MGA(0): Direct rendering disabled > > (==) RandR enabled > > There were some issues with the AGP interaction in the MGA DRM > introduced last August. I believe that I fixed them around the > beginning of November. I'm not sure if all of those changes found their > way into 2.6.14. Is there anything "interesting" in /var/log/messages?
Nothing interesting in the logs - all looks normal. > > See also: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4797 > Yes I did see this but I thought it would be fixed in the next X release. > There are two things that you could try. First, try updating your DRM > to current CVS. Second, try adding 'Option "OldDmaInit" "true"' to the > card's device section in your xorg.conf. Tried upgrading to binary snapshot of common and mga dated 20122005 and still it doesnt work, noteven with the olddmainit option. Getting late here now if you need any info let me know and i will try my best. Dave ps my g400 is an agp. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
