Sorry..I forgot to download fglrx. It loads fine..I will try restarting X.. Thanks for all your help. thanks mohan <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy <<a href="mailto:suruti94@gmail.com">suruti94@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The first thing i see is drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK) Then (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM [dri] Disabling DRI. Then i tried manually loading drm.ko and it failed with error.. -mohan<div> <div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy <<a href="mailto:suruti94@gmail.com" target="_blank">suruti94@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > When drm is loaded (modprobe drm), i get a failure saying "Cannot Allocate > memory". I guess i need > radeon.ko and drm.ko. I was loading drm.ko first. Is that right ? > </div>The xserver will load the radeon and drm modules automatically. <div><div></div><div> Alex > -mohan > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy <<a href="mailto:suruti94@gmail.com" target="_blank">suruti94@gmail.com</a>> >> wrote: >> > Finally i got it up and running except for the DRM stuff. I am running >> > the >> > latest and greatest <a href="http://1.5.99.1" target="_blank">1.5.99.1</a>. But DRM >> > open is failing. Do you know any way to fix it ? I just started the >> > Xserver >> > from my build.. >> >> Is the new drm installed and loaded by the kernel? >> >> Alex >> >> > >> > -mohan >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy >> >> <<a href="mailto:suruti94@gmail.com" target="_blank">suruti94@gmail.com</a>> >> >> wrote: >> >> > I checked the instructions.. isn't there a easy way to just pick the >> >> > right >> >> > drivers and make it work ? >> >> >> >> what do you mean? You can follow the instructions there or build X >> >> yourself, or... >> >> Fiesty was too old to support your chip out of the box. so you'd need >> >> to either install update packages or build the X stack yourself or >> >> upgrade to a newer release. >> >> >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> > >> >> > -mohan >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Alex Deucher >> >> > <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Stone <<a href="mailto:daniel@fooishbar.org" target="_blank">daniel@fooishbar.org</a>> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:50:04AM -0700, Mohan Parthasarathy >> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I just used the proprietary to start with. I am using ubuntu >> >> >> >> Fiesty >> >> >> >> release >> >> >> >> and >> >> >> >> when i used the radeon driver there i got an error >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so >> >> >> >> (EE) LoadModule: Module radeon_drv does not have a >> >> >> >> radeon_drvModuleData >> >> >> >> data >> >> >> >> object. >> >> >> >> (II) UnloadModule: "radeon_drv" >> >> >> >> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so >> >> >> > >> >> >> > The driver name is just 'radeon', not 'radeon_drv'. >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> There seems to be some mismatch. Also, how do i get a matching >> >> >> >> drm >> >> >> >> module ? >> >> >> >> I am assuming that the current one in 2.6.20 should kernel branch >> >> >> >> should >> >> >> >> work. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Hmm, it might. I don't know what they've backported. Someone >> >> >> > should >> >> >> > have built them already, though. >> >> >> >> >> >> for Ubuntu users: >> >> >> <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10181" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10181</a> >> >> >> >> >> >> Alex >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > > > </div></div></blockquote></div> </div></div></blockquote></div>