Re: 2.5 kernel on grx 5xx

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 07:26, Gregory Wilson wrote:
> Last I heard (last week that is) DRM & OpenGL acceleration is not
> working for Radeons in the 2.5 series yet. There was a posting on lkml
> about someone getting it working with 2.5.70-bk but then there were
> other problems. So if you want to play your games or have pretty
> screensavers then you need to stick with a 2.4.x kernel for now.
> 

Or use Matlab.

>   [drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0
>   [drm:radeon_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon_cp_init called without lock held
>   [drm:radeon_unlock] *ERROR* Process 3243 using kernel context 0
> 
> Greg
> 
> 

The problem I get is (in dmesg)

radeon: Unknown symbol mmu_cr4_features

Looking at the latest Linus tree on kernel.org this should be fixed in
2.5.71.

> On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:49, Anthony Joseph Seward wrote:
> > I'm using Red Hat 9.  I got some help on the shrike list and have things
> > mostly working now.  There seem to be problems with DRM that I haven't
> > gotten around to tracking down.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tony
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 19:02, John S. Andersen wrote:
> > > On 6 Jun 2003 at 18:17, Anthony Joseph Seward wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Could someone who has a recent 2.5 kernel running on a GRX-570 or
> > > > similar laptop send me their .config file?  I am having problems
> > > > getting the kernel to boot.
> > > 
> > > Are you particular about which distro?
> > > It might not be the same....
> 
> 
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