Trying to figure out my eth0 module

wrs4

When building the kernel, I did the make modules_install, etc. I didn't put the eth0 module into modules.autoload. When I do the old

dberkholz · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject:

make menuconfig:

wrs4 · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:45 pm Post subject:

I compiled it in as a module; still don't know which module to put in the autoload file though.....

dberkholz · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject:

Try

wrs4 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 1:10 am Post subject:

well, there's a 'broadcom.h' header file lying around, and a broadcom directory parallel to it, so I'd guess that's what I'm looking for. However, when I do the

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 2:36 am Post subject:

lsmod only lists loaded modules. Try

wrs4 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 3:13 am Post subject:

Hmm...while I was waiting for a reply I did find . -name "*.o" -print |grep net and used the bcm5700 one that showed up. Did the trick nicely. :wink:

Working on XFree and the agpgart issue that lots of people seem to find. Found some info at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46681. Having a Matrox G450 dual vid card, I'm trying to get powerdesk going, along with the DRI stuff. Of course, they assume you have XFree < 4.2.0, so I'm trying some tricks. I'll probably be pestering them on their forum directly

in the near future.

You've been quite helpful. Thank you ever so much.

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 4:08 am Post subject:

wrs4 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 4:51 am Post subject:

Err...well, I might pester you too. "Them" was my unclear (apparently) reference to "Matrox"

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:02 am Post subject:

I actually just got a Matrox card using xfree-drm, so lemme know if you have troubles.

wrs4 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:32 am Post subject:

Will do. I have a G450 that I've used successfully with Red Hat 7.[1-3] and 9.0 (and corresponding stock XFree86 installs).

What I've done to this point is

The mga drivers tarball contains code for 4.0.3 and 4.1.0. One of the Matrox forum threads indicated that for later versions of XFree, one could cp -rp the 4.1.0 directory to the approrpiate new version (at the time, 4.2.0) and run the install script. I did this for 4.3.0 (the version included with the latest Gentoo release).

The latest PowerDesk tarball is for 4.2.0. I installed it as well.

Running startx flickered, went black, flickered again, and died with error messages.

There's a thread on the Matrox forum where someone indicated the existence of an ebuild for the Parhelia card (in case that helps you). I've asked to see if there is one for the G450 (I have the same username on that forum, if you're interested).

I'll keep you posted on how things go.

wrs4 · Last edited by wrs4 on Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:00 pm; edited 1 time in total

I'm going to elaborate here on what I did to get this working. I'll update in the event that I figure out whether I actually have DRI working

I followed the instructions at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46681, which helped me put DRI into my kernel. I'll probably go narrow down the supported boards I have compiled into my kernel, since at the moment I have everything but the kitchen sink in there.

Once that was completed, I installed the Matrox G450 PowerDesk and HAL software (available here under the Millennium G450 row). Presently, the mgadrivers.tgz tarball only contains drivers for X through 4.2.0. To install for 4.3.0, you will have to extract the tarball and do the following:

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: Matrox G450 merged display

wrs4 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:05 pm Post subject:

direct rendering comes up as "No".

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject:

wrs4 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject:

wrs4 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject:

Do I need all those chipsets then, based on my lspci output?

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 10:01 pm Post subject:

Honestly, I have no idea. Your AGP chipset might not be supported at all, since that seems to be what dmesg is telling you. Try searching around some.

wrs4 · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:58 am Post subject:

Well, it doesn't look like I'm going to get AGP working :cry:

Nothing on the web, converting agpgart to a module stops the dmesg warnings about it but doesn't seem to fix the problem, so I'll just deal with GL indirect rendering (I can run glxgears from a shell but can't get Xscreensaver to do it...)

I appreciate the help. It's probably my chipset...maybe one day they'll have something for it. Meantime, I'm going to look at the write-up I did above, revise it, and probably cross-post it to here, Matrox forums and my web site. Maybe it will be of help to someone the way you helped me

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:32 pm Post subject:

OK, I just want to make sure you tried loading the agpgart module with parameter agp_try_unsupported=1, because the idea of that is to get around the problem of having an unknown chipset.

wrs4 · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject:

Yup...have it in my /etc/modules.autoload thusly:

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah, you have to remerge it every time you compile kernel/modules, because that erases all external modules.

wrs4 · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 6:01 pm Post subject:

Hmm...I hadn't considered that...ok....back to re-emerge some stuff, probably to re-install HAL too.

wrs4 · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 7:16 pm Post subject:

Well, it was worth a try, but it didn't happen; probably the chipset. I'm in the process of a detailed write-up on what I did; where do you suggest I post it on this forum?