Bug 288564 – x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.4 (on radeon Mobility X1600): 'DRI' is not enabled when using 'EXA'

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Miro Hadzhiev 2009-10-11 15:20:43 UTC]

DRI extension is not enabled when the server is configured to use 'EXA" acceleration method. The system becomes flaky and most of the applications work slowly (especially OpenOffice).

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
DRI is not used
the system works slowly under X

[Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) 2009-10-27 06:17:27 UTC]

Did turning off kernel mode-setting, as recommended in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16691, end up solving this problem?

[Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-05 08:05:08 UTC]

@Tomáš, what say you? :)

[Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-11-29 13:11:08 UTC]

We would need some additional informations, like xorg-server version.

[Comment 4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2009-11-29 16:10:19 UTC]

At least Xorg.0.log would be necessary to determine the cause

[Comment 5 Miro Hadzhiev 2009-12-21 19:03:50 UTC]

Created attachment 213705 [details]
'Xorg.0.log' file

[Comment 6 Miro Hadzhiev 2009-12-21 19:04:30 UTC]

Sorry for the delayed answer...

[Comment 7 Miro Hadzhiev 2009-12-21 19:06:50 UTC]

And there is a warning that "(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled".

[Comment 8 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2009-12-21 23:18:56 UTC]

Your actual problem is this:

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.

Probably your kernel is missing DRM_RADEON support.

[Comment 9 Miro Hadzhiev 2009-12-21 23:21:11 UTC]

Sorry, my bug report is absolutely wrong. The kernel compilation was broken in some way and the radeon DRM had not been compiled correctly.

[Comment 10 Miro Hadzhiev 2009-12-21 23:22:50 UTC]

Thank you, Chí-Thanh! (: