[Dri-devel] Radeon 9000 Trials and Tribulations

[D. H. <dha...@dr...>]

I was discussing on the XFree86 Developers list concerning DRI on the 
Radeon 9000 when Sven Luther forwarded me a message from this list posted 
by Scott Harrison.  It indicated that he had some success in getting it to 
work with very small patch.  I decided that I would check it out myself 
and found that I didn't have the same luck. Listed below is the process 
that I went through -- maybe someone here can point me in a good direction 
to what to look into next.

The test machine is a Dell Insipiron 8200 with a 64 ATI Radeon Mobility 
9000:

-
class: VIDEO 
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: Card:ATI Radeon Mobility 9000
desc: "ATI|Radeon RV250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000]"
vendorId: 1002
deviceId: 4c66
subVendorId: 1028
subDeviceId: 00d4
pciType: 1
-

I was running the latest CVS version of the XFree86 tree and pulled over 
the lastest changes to the DRM/DRI structure.  I then made the 
modifications that Scott Harrison indicated.  After rebuilding the kenerl 
modules and the XFree86 tree - I loaded up tuxracer to test things out.  I 
noticed that I didn't have permission to access /dev/dri/card0 so I 
modified access so I could get to it.  Tuxracer started up, blanked the 
screen and the machine would lock hard.

Relevant entries from my /var/log/messages:

Oct 31 14:55:09 moko modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
char-major-13-0
Oct 31 14:55:09 moko last message repeated 3 times
Oct 31 14:55:09 moko modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
char-major-13-64
Oct 31 14:55:09 moko last message repeated 31 times
Oct 31 14:55:09 moko modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
char-major-13-0
Oct 31 14:55:10 moko last message repeated 31 times
Oct 31 14:55:10 moko kernel: [drm:radeon_freelist_get] *ERROR* returning 
NULL!
Oct 31 14:55:10 moko last message repeated 2485 times

Attached is my XFree86.0.log ...

Any ideas would be appreciated ... I will continue to play on my end and 
see what I can come up with.

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