ATI Driver fail with latest fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6

RaXeT maxer1 at xmission.com
Thu Mar 11 06:21:53 UTC 2004


Just to show you how IMPOSSIBLE it is for a 2.6.x kernel to work with 
ATI linux drivers:

Preparing...                
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fglrx                       
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*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
*** WARNING ***
Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system.
You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir
and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module.
Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh'
in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository.
(see readme.txt for more details.)
                                                                                                                                                                               

As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated
OpenGL will not work and 2D graphics will lack performance.
                                                                                                                                                                               

failed.
*** Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed
skipping patch for 'drm_os_linux.h', not needed
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.3-2.1.253custom/build 
SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-2.1.253'
*** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
***          inconsistencies
make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/nvidia-agp.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/i7505-agp.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2246: warning: 
initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2264: warning: 
initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2271: warning: 
initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2278: warning: 
initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2287: warning: 
initialization from incompatible pointer type
  LD [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
  CC      /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.mod.o
  LD [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-2.1.253'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
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- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
failed.
Installed: qt3 (gcc 3.2) based control panel application
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ATI display drivers successfully installed
please run 'fglrxconfig' now

Here is what the XFree86.0.log shows as well:
(II) fglrx(0): UMM area:     0xe8953000 (size=0x076ad000)
(II) fglrx(0): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x
(II) fglrx(0): detected XFree86 version: 4.3.0
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "agpgart"
[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

Have more fun!

RaXeT







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