Hello all, I have a couple of questions concerning the correct way to get DRM working in Redhat 8. My motivation for doing this is to correctly set up my All In Wonder Radeon for TV in/out and recording. I am also a subscriber to the Gatos list and have made some success so far but it has been haphazard at best and I would really like to know the correct way in getting DRM working in Redhat 8. Here is what I have done so far. I have compiled and installed the Gatos kernel DRM and ATI.2 drivers and got TV in working with xawtv. I have got ALSA compiled and installed. I actually think I did have everything installed correctly (aside from no gears being displayed) but I then upgraded to XFree snapshot version 4.2.99.902 along with the corresponding ATI binaries and this locked up my version of X. I then reinstalled Redhat to start fresh when XFree version 4.3 is released later this week. So I am now back to configuring my kernel to get DRM working. I was reading the thread on "Kernel DRM woes". Before, when I got TV-IN working I was not using the Redhat kernel I was using kernel 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org. The strange thing was that even though I could watch TV and play DVDs with Xine when I ran GLXGEARS I would not see any gears being displayed only the FPS readout which was 987 FPS. There were no errors in my XFree log but there were Informational (II) warnings-the ones that are present right after a fresh install of Redhat and they read: drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: Open failed However, I would get the line that read (II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver So the DRM kernel was being loaded. A couple of other things I should mention is that I was using XFree 4.2 compiled and installed from source and the ATI.2 version 4.2 drivers. I also had to create the directory DRM under /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/drm. and then copy the radeon.o to this location. In the kernel I had "Build 4.0 DRI Drivers" and then tried Build 4.1. With 4.0 I could see Gears in GLXGEARS but my FPS were 157 FPS and "DRI NOT LOADED" message in my XFree log. With 4.1 I had no gears but my FPS were 987 FPS. I eventually turned both of these off in the kernel and loaded the ATI DRM module manually but I still had no gears displayed but 987 FPS. There is something really strange going on with DRM in Redhat. I have no intention of using any other version of Linux and will keep trying with Redhat 8. I would eventually like to write an updated Redhat specific ATI All In Wonder Radeon FAQ/tutorial but I have a lot of work ahead. What I need help with is the specifics on correctly setting up DRM in Redhat 8. What I have done correct so far and what I have done wrong. If I would have seen gears in GLXGEARS with 987 FPS I would have figured that I set everything up correctly but there was the no gears issue but also CPU usage. After I got TV-IN to work I watched TV for a while with no sound and looked at the CPU usage. Everything was fine, low CPU usage, after installing ALSA and watching TV I noticed that my CPU usage was at 100% constantly. I'm not sure if this was because I did not set up ALSA correctly or if it was due to the original DRM issue but it was worth noting. Sorry for the book of a post but I am trying to figure this out. I appreciate any help and suggestions you can provide. Thanks Eric Esterle _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
