[Dri-users] Re: How to have both TV and 3D acceleration?

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Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>>Well I figured that if installing the ATI.2 binaries made X work again
>>(though without 3D), then why shouldn't running make-install in the ATI.2
>>source tree do the same thing?  So I went back to the Xfree86 tree and did
>>make-install again, then back to the ATI.2 tree and did the same thing, then
>>restarted X.  This time, the screen flickered a little and then went black.
>>  I don't know what it was doing, but it wasn't loading X and Gnome, because
>>there was no hard disk activity.  But it wouldn't respond to
>>Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, nor Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6, nor Ctrl-C.  The only thing it
>>responded to was Ctrl+Alt+Delete.  Then, when it rebooted, I ran startx
>>again in a last desperate attempt, and after a longer-than-normal period of
>>flickering and blackness, X started!!  And now TV works along with hardware
>>3D acceleration.  So, apparently the ATI.2 binaries don't work, but the CVS
>>version does (after some finessing and rebooting).
> 
> 
> Hmm.. this is very strange. May I ask you to 1) backup your existing X11
> install 2) try to install ati.2 binaries over it again ?

So, just backup /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ and then extract 
ATI-4.3.0-13.i386.tar.gz to /usr again?

> I suspect this might be a directories issues - if you original X install
> used different location for X11 drivers.

Could be; I'm not sure.  The original install was long long ago.

> It could also be that, somehow, your system was still loading old drm
> module.

Is that the radeon.o module that I renamed to gatosdrm.o?  The one in the 
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/ directory?

-Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/