Re: DRM, radeon, and X 4.3

["Andrew S. Johnson" <andy@asjohnson.com>]

On Thursday 17 July 2003 12:26 pm, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:39:25AM -0500, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
>  > I start X but it says DRM is disabled, even though the
>  > radeon and agpgart modules are loaded.  Here is the dmesg tail:
>  > 
>  > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
>  > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.9.0 20020828 on minor 0
>  > [drm:radeon_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon_cp_init called without lock held
>  > [drm:radeon_unlock] *ERROR* Process 1929 using kernel context 0
>  > 
>  > There is something X doesn't like.  How do I fix this?
> 
> Looks like there isn't an agp chipset module also loaded
> (via-agp.o, intel-agp.o etc...)
> 
> You should have additional text after the first AGP line.
> 
> 		Dave

In the 2.4 kernels, the chipset was compiled in with the agpgart
module.  Now they are separate.  So, yes, modprobe via-agp
did the trick.

How can get the modprobe.conf file to load this module after
agpgart and not crash the system?  My attempts to make this
work using the install command example from the manpage
have been generally disasterous.

Thanks,

Andy Johnson