Re: [Dri-users] No DRM

[Felix <fx...@gm...>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:31:20 -0400
"Danny L. Brow, Jr." <dan...@ho...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have installed many different versions of dri for radeon cards, but it 
> seems if I reboot or if I exit out of X I lose my dri support for my card.  
> But if I reinstall, it will work again.  I have; a few times just unloaded 
> the radeon module from the kernel with modprobe -r radeon, and then just 
> reloaded it.  It works sometimes but most of the time I have to reinstall 
> the dri to get it to work.  Any one have an idea to what the problem may be?

This sounds like a well known AGP issue. The installation script loads
the agpgart module which is needed for DRI to work. The next time you
boot, your init scripts have to load the agpgart module, otherwise DRI
won't work. Alternatively you can compile AGP support statically into
your kernel.

> 
> Dan.

Felix

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