Re: DRM not working with 2.6.11.5

Dave Jones
2005-04-16T16:42:00Z

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:47:13PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > The AGP and DRM modules load fine, but when xdm starts, I have no
> > direct rendering.
> >
> > The machine is an ASUS A7V8x-x with VIA chipset KT400. The video card
> > is a Matrox G400 DualHead. I've had the exact same video card working
> > with different motherboards.
> >
> > Here is the only DRM output relevant to AGP/DRM:
> >
> > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
> > [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
> > [drm:drm_fill_in_dev] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
>
> You didn't load the agp chipset module..
> it would be nice if it happened automatically...

Adam Jackson was looking into this a few days ago by making
the generic agpgart.o send hotplug events to trigger a load
of the submodules. If he comes up with something I'll throw
it at -mm if it looks sane.

Dave