OK, so I've got two PCs with Radeon 7000. One has PCI version of the card, and the other has AGP version of the card.
Before update to 4.2, I had DRI enabled on both of them, and it worked stable for me (lucky me). After update to 4.2, the PC with AGP version of the card does not load radeon kernel module anymore, and it seems DRI related options from xorg.conf file are ignored. On the PC with PCI version of the card radeon module gets loaded and everything still seems to work nicely and stable.
I remember some talk about DRI being disabled when Radeon 7000 is detected on Alpha (or PPC, not sure), and this being CentOS specific modification. Has this modification by any chance accidentally leaked into i386 packages? Or is this something that came from upstream?
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:00:02AM -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
I remember some talk about DRI being disabled when Radeon 7000 is detected on Alpha (or PPC, not sure), and this being CentOS specific modification. Has this modification by any chance accidentally leaked into i386 packages? Or is this something that came from upstream?
No. I fixed the Radeon 7000 (RV100) for ia64. In HP ia64-boxes the MC/ILO board integrated adapter is Radeon 7000.
I did fix it myself.
For CentOS-4.2/alpha i did hack it out for more. If i did it right, it's disabled by default on every Radeon there. It didn't work as is on my Radeon 9250/PCI at alpha. I did want to avoid people ending up going thru firstboot just to find out that display/keyboard is hosed after installation/first boot, so disabling DRI was kind of tradeoff which i am willing to take. This can be fixed later on with updates when netter known what the heck is actually wrong in the updated xorg-package.
The hacked version for radeon 7000 fix only would be in 4.2-tree updates/ia64 (i actually forgot toput it there before, so thank you for remainding me).
One could just comment out all the DRI-options from xorg.conf as this would efectively disable DRI too. Boot to initlevel 3 if there is no ssh/remote access to box to fix it.
Quoting Pasi Pirhonen upi@iki.fi:
No. I fixed the Radeon 7000 (RV100) for ia64. In HP ia64-boxes the MC/ILO board integrated adapter is Radeon 7000.
I did fix it myself.
For CentOS-4.2/alpha i did hack it out for more. If i did it right, it's disabled by default on every Radeon there.
OK, than there are other forces around not letting me use DRI on my AGP version of the card... I just wanted to make sure if my problem was CentOS specific, or upstream.
Thanks, Aleksandar Milivojevic
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