[Dri-users] Unable to install DRI module for Radeon 7500 under Debian sid

[Alon L. <al...@ga...>]

Hi,

excuse me for asking this, as it has probably received an answer before, but
I've been going at this task for hours now with no luck, and the documentation
on the dri.sf.net page doesn't seem to help.

I'm trying to set up DRI for my Radeon 7500. I run Debian (a mix of sid and sarge
right now), and my XFree version is therefore 4.2.1-6. I installed the latest
snapshot of the binaries (radeon-20030612-linux.i386.tar.bz2) and the Extras
package, and could not start X afterwards; the problem, as far as I can see,
lies in a version incompatibility

The X error log states that it's been unable to load 4 modules (GLcore, dri,
glx and radeon, in that order). The issue with GLcore has to do with the
debug_xform.o object ("No symbols found in this module; Failed to load
debug_xform.o"), but I seem to remember reading in some support list that
X would not fail to start because of it (although glx is not loaded later
because of the lack of a required submodule, which I believe is GLcore).
But the radeon and dri modules are compiled for XFree86 4.3.0, and the
system refuses to load them. I installed the XFree86 binary that comes
in the extras package, but it didn't solve the issue.

Is there anything I can do, or should I just download the X source
and (gasp) compile it by myself? I'm sure I can do that, but I'd
rather not mess with a delicate piece of software in a way that
can disrupt my .deb-based system.

TIA,

Alon