Can't obtain graphic acceleration with Radeon Xpress 1250

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Dariem Pérez Herrera <dariemp at uci.cu> wrote:
> El sáb, 24-01-2009 a las 13:57 -0500, Alex Deucher escribió:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM, dariemp <dariemp at uci.cu> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > I've not been able to obtain graphic acceleration with my ATI Radeon
>> > Xpress 1250. I'm using linux kernel 2.6.28 (with ATI Radeon module
>> > support), radeon driver 6.10.0, xorg 7.4, xorg X server 1.5.3 . I've
>> > notice my directory /dev/dri/ is empty. I'm willing to give any needed
>> > feedback to developers to fix this problem. I'm including here my xorg
>> > log file.
>>
>> Any interesting drm/radeon related messages in your dmesg?
>>
>
> The only message I can find about drm or radeon in my dmesg is:
>
> "[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810"
>
> lsmod shows all correct modules loaded: radeon, drm, ati_agp, agpgart. I
> don't know if there is any other module missing.
>
> I'm wondering: who is responsable for telling udev to populate /dev/dri?
> Is the driver? Is the kernel module?

If your card is a Intel-based RS600 then drm support isn't currently
available.  The GART interface is much different than the GART
interface on the RS690.   We will hopefully be able to release that
information soon.

Alex