Bug 465142 - NoDRI in xorg.conf does not work in RHEL 5.2
Summary: NoDRI in xorg.conf does not work in RHEL 5.2
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 5.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Dave Airlie
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
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Blocks: 438405
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-01 19:32 UTC by François Cami
Modified: 2013-06-22 00:20 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-02 11:12:19 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2009:1343 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE xorg-x11-drv-ati bug fix and enhancement update 2009-09-01 10:43:56 UTC

Description François Cami 2008-10-01 19:32:17 UTC
Description of problem:

Putting Option "NoDRI" in the Device section of the Radeon card in xorg.conf does not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-3.13.el5


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put    Option "NoDRI"    in the Device section of the Radeon card in xorg.conf
2. Launch X (init 5)
3. # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep NoDRI
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "NoDRI" is not used
  
Actual results:
DRI is not disabled.

Expected results:
DRI disabled.

Additional info:
I think it was reported to Fedora-devel :
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-September/msg00593.html

Comment 1 François Cami 2008-10-01 19:53:25 UTC
If DRI could be disabled, this would help diagnose a bit more bug 465144 :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465144

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-11-08 23:56:23 UTC
from radeon(4):

 Option "DRI" "boolean"
              Enable DRI support.  This option allows you to enable to disable
              the DRI.  The default is off for RN50/ES1000 and on for  others.

This is clearly misconfiguration IMHO. Closing as NOTABUG.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2008-11-08 23:59:38 UTC
Actually, this is from Rawhide. Manpage on RHEL5 doesn't mention any DRI option at all. Does (by chance) Option "DRI" "boolean" work for you? If yes, we should fix documentation.

Comment 4 François Cami 2008-11-12 19:37:48 UTC
I tried setting DRI to false thusly (xorg.conf) :
#############################################
--- xorg.conf-generated 2008-11-12 20:25:07.000000000 +0100
+++ xorg.conf   2008-11-12 20:27:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@

 Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
+       Option  "DRI" "false"
 EndSection

 Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0
#############################################

And got (Xorg.0.log) :
#############################################
# grep DRI /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) RADEON(0): [dri] Found DRI library version 1.2.0 and kernel module version 1.25.0
(**) RADEON(0): DRI New memory map param
(**) RADEON(0): DRI PCIGART param
(**) RADEON(0): DRI Finishing init !
(II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "DRI" is not used
(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
#############################################

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2009-03-11 15:19:15 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 7 Dave Airlie 2009-04-24 03:33:51 UTC
MODIFIED

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-3.24.el5

built in brew.

Comment 9 Mark Gordon 2009-07-23 19:00:41 UTC
Tested, confirmed to work: "NoDRI", "DRI" "false", and nothing, on assorted hardware (with and without actual DRI support), checking each of Xorg logs, glxinfo output, and glxgears performance.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:12:19 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1343.html


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