On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:02 +0100, Alex Buell wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:38 -0500, Bridgman, John wrote: > > There might be a clue in the dmesg output. > > > > This is looking less like a mesa dev issue - is there a better list for this ? > > I'll move it over to the dri-dev mailing list. I have found the problem by looking in the dmesg; I didn't know the e128 chipset needed a firmware to run :) Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: platform r128_cce.0: firmware: requesting r128/r128_cce.bin Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: r128_cce: Failed to load firmware "r128/r128_cce.bin" Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: [drm:r128_do_init_cce] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: [drm:r128_cce_stop] *ERROR* called with no initialization Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon firmware.sh[28323]: Cannot find firmware file 'r128/r128_cce.bin' Hopefully it should work now. -- http://www.munted.org.uk One very high maintenance cat living here.