Radeon X850 DRI Help

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Alexander Wright
<alexander at wright-family.me.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 09 Nov 2009 15:10:17 Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Alexander Wright
>>
>> <alexander at wright-family.me.uk> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to get DRI working on the Radeon X850 chipset.
>> >
>> > Could someone please point me towards the right place to look / ask for
>> > help.
>>
>> It should work out of the box on most modern distros for the last
>> several years.  What sort of problem are you seeing?
>
> That's what I thought.
>
> From Xorg.0.log:
>
> (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
> (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
> (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
> is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf805b000 at 0xb76dd000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.
> (II) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() :
> (II) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION   : 0xfffff000 0xfffff000
> (II) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION  : 0xffffffc0
> (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
>
> However, /etc/conf.d/modules:
> modules="agpgart drm radeon fuse"
>

In addition to agpgart, you need to load the agp module for the
chipset on your motherboard.

Alex