On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 03:16, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > Just so you are aware, GATOS drivers, or any drivers for that > matter that are not supplied by Red Hat as part of Red Hat Linux > - are totally unsupported by Red Hat. I am aware of this. > If you're using GATOS drivers, then you must use GATOS DRM. > Because the kernel.org kernel does not contain the GATOS DRM. Yes, I have done this. > > Not really. You're not using Red Hat DRM with supported drivers. > The DRM in Red Hat Linux is not the GATOS DRM, and you wont get > GATOS to work with it. This is not a Red Hat bug, nor a Red Hat > DRM problem. GATOS is simply not compatible with the DRM in Red > Hat Linux, and the GATOS site explicitly states that you require > to use their DRM modules. > I have been using the Gatos ATI.2 drivers and the Gatos DRM kernel. Everything works fine with the Gatos aside from no gears being displayed in GLXGEARS. To keep this post somewhat relevant I think I know what I did incorrectly. In the DRM section of the kernel I set it to NO instead of Module so when I did insmod radeon.o I'm not sure if it used it because this section of the kernel was not set to module. > Well... there's nothing Red Hat specific about getting GATOS > working in Red Hat Linux. It's a matter of reading the > instructions that come with the GATOS drivers, and compiling the > GATOS DRM kernel modules, or compiling a kernel with those > modules, installing it and using it. The same procedure would be > followed on any Linux distribution. > I'm not looking for Gatos support from this list. I have Gatos for that. The process of installing Gatos is really not that complicated for me *now* but I am by no means an experienced Linux user. I did read the instructions multiple times. > If you can't get GATOS to work, then you're doing something > wrong, or the GATOS drivers are broken that you're trying to use. > I suspect the former is the case however as I'm able to run GATOS > drivers locally, and I know many others who are able to do so as > well. > I agree, and I am not saying the Gatos drivers are broken. I am the one making the mistake(s) most definitely. It must have been my DRM build drivers not being set to module in the kernel that caused no gears to be displayed in GLXGEARS. > Perhaps a future XFree86 release will merge pieces of the GATOS > code, and end users won't have to jump through hoops like this to > get things working. > That would be nice but I wouldn't expect it. > You really do have to use the DRM modules that are part of the > GATOS project, and they do work with the GATOS drivers. Your > best bet is to use the GATOS mailing lists to seek assistance or > precompiled DRM modules for the kernel you're using. > > Just keep in mind that while this is fairly simple to get going, > it is totally unsupported by Red Hat. Let me ask you a question about a stock installation of Redhat 8 though. Why does this appear in my X log? drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: Open failed My intention with this post was not to try and get Redhat support for something that Redhat shouldn't support. I only wanted to create a thread that would help myself and others out. At this point I don't feel like I have accomplished that. --Eric _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
