Bug 61442 – drm mach64 driver does not work on x.org

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rick Jenkins 2004-08-23 15:22:34 UTC]

In the Desktop Configuration documents, the Direct Rendering section states:

The Direct Rendering HOWTO explains how to get 3D acceleration working using xfree-drm (also valid for X.org's X11 server). 

Unfortunately, it does not seem to be true for the mach64 accelerator under X.org. After following all the steps documented, I can't start X with the mach 64 driver. I added:

	ModulePath   "/lib/modules/2.4.27/xfree-drm"

to xorg.conf so that it could find the driver, then got the error:

LoadModule: Module mach64 does not have a mach64ModuleData object.

Have I missed something trivial here?


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-08-29 05:22:55 UTC]

This is a mach64 bug, not documentation-related.

[Comment 2 Colin Macdonald 2004-09-02 14:16:20 UTC]

Maybe at least part of your problem was caused by bug #62188?

[Comment 3 Rick Jenkins 2004-09-05 11:47:27 UTC]

When bug #62188? is in place, the module is not found at all. My bug occurs just a bit later in the chain - the module is found, but is missing a part required by xorg, so xorg refuses to load it. Even with the latest ebuild, which is x11-drm rather than xfree-drm, and adding 

	ModulePath   "/lib/modules/2.4.27/x11-drm"

to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the present bug occurs. I have now tried installing from scratch on a different system, with the same result.

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-10-07 16:21:55 UTC]

	ModulePath   "/lib/modules/2.4.27/x11-drm" is incorrect. That parameter is intended for X modules, not kernel modules.

Please post /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-11-17 23:03:52 UTC]

Please reopen if you add info.