Tom Horsley wrote:
I've been trying to fight with bugz 213170 and it occurs to
me that one big difference between FC5 and FC6 in the
opensource radeon driver is that FC6 supports DRI and GLX
and all that fancy stuff.
I've read the xorg.conf(5) man page, but can't interpret
anything in there as a way to disable loading of modules.
Can anyone show an example of how to do that? I'd like
to disable all the 3D stuff and see if the flickering
goes away.
(I suppose a more drastic approach would be to rename the
actual module files so it can't find them to load the
extension).
I would say comment out drm. Of coarse with the minimal file, how would
you do that. You might try to drop to runlevel 3 and try your luck with
"X -configure' to see if it generates a working X file that is
substantial enough to prevent the guessing game. The file is generated
in /root/ directory with what command to use to try out the
configuration file. You then can copy the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf if
it works for you. If it does, there should be a modules section.
There was this excerpt from your log on the one bug report. Also I
recall some information about a specific entry in some out of the
ordinary file from Adam I believe referring to a new file which might
need configuration. I could not find it due to site maintenance.
There is an
/usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so module. I believe you specify this driver in
the file with reference somewhere in the archive.
(WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
*** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500
*** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree.
*** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available from Mesa CVS.
*** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net
*** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07.
I hope this response at least gives you some ideas to try.
Jim
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