ATI 9000 direct rendering question

[Scott Henson]

Pablo Wolter wrote:

>Yes, I just install from the Hoary CD and add Universe repositories to
>source.list to have another staff.
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Yes, thats exactly what I have as well.

>>I wouldn't know why your dri wouldn't be enabled.  You can check
>>/var/log/Xorg.0.log for information as to why its not enabled. 
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>I check the log file but I don't see why it is not enabled. It is a
>large file so I'm not attaching it. If needed I'll do it.
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Well when I look in there I see a line like the following.
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

and

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:00.0"
(II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
(II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete

If your not seeing these, its a good chance the dri module is never 
getting loaded or the radeon driver isn't recognizing your card. 


>If I uninstall XFfree86 related packages, can I be sure to have a fully
>opperational X.org window system?
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You shouldn't have any XFree86 stuff installed.  When I run "dpkg 
--get-selections | grep -i xfree86" I get nothing. 

If dri isn't being enabled on your hardware on a fresh hoary install, I 
believe thats a bug and you might want to check out the Ubuntu bugzilla.