ATI Mach64 and Kernel 2.6 not working

scourage

I'm upgrading my Gateway Solo 9300 from 2.4.20-gentoor7 to 2.6.0-test8. I have the DRI modules for the mach64 from www.retinalburn.net/linux and they work great with 2.4.20, but I can't get them to compile with 2.6 (make fails). I know it's an ancient card, but does anybody know of a patch for the make files, or a fix to get the mach64 DRI working in 2.6? Do I need to recompile Xfree86 under 2.6 or anything like that?

Cheers,

Bob

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:24 pm Post subject:

The best way to do this would be to search through the dri.sf.net patches list, which lists commits, and find the one that made them compile on 2.5 kernels. Then port that over to the mach64 stuff. Yeah, it's a lot of work.

scourage · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 9:00 pm Post subject: Alrighty then...

I've looked just about everywhere to see if somebody smart made those patches already, but I guess I"ll just have to do it myself. I've got very limited experience with dri, but I'm game. Anybody want to help?

Cheers,

Bob

scourage · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 12:49 am Post subject: Found it

A quick search looking for a start point and I found what I needed in the DRI CVS.

Cheers,

Bob

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:18 am Post subject:

Could you please post any progress you make to dri-devel mailing list and on this thread? Also the dri-devel list is a good place for questions about it.

It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

scourage · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:25 am Post subject:

still working on it... I don't have a solution yet, but when I find/make one. I'll post it.

percking · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 90

Does anybody know how to get this working ??

I also had 3D support for my mach64 based rage mobility with 2.4 but now
I've upgraded to 2.6 and I'm trying to use the support built into the kernel.
All i get is a black screen with white fuzz, even the terminal was just black and white fuzz.
I tried all different combinations of the 3 or 4 options listed under mach64
in the kernel and reproduced the same black and white fuzz with all of them.

any help would be appreciated !!

mark

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Hey,

it's good to know that I'm not alone with this problem. I got an older Compaq Laptop with a VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 100). And I'm not willing to ditch this laptop

So if we could make this tread a meeting point for news on this matter I would appreciate it.I would like to use 2.6.x when Gentoo maintainers put it in vanilla-sources or so. And I'd like that DRI/xv will work too.

Thanks

mic

albright

To micmac: I had those symptoms until I turned off framebuffer
support. Then at least I could get a a screen. No DRI for me,
but I haven't tried any of the special drivers.

So ... do you have framebuffer support compiled in and
are you trying to use it? Just a thought.

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

allbright: No, I was talking about the mach64.o kernelmodul. I got the DRI cvs branch patched for xv like described on retinalburn. I already have xfree-drm compiled with 2.4.22. It's just that I can't compile the module.

I saw a kernel option in 2.6 that would allow using other modules to be used. Maybe we can just turn this option on and cp our 2.4.x mach64.o to the 2.6.x modules directory and hope it works? Has anybody tried this? Would be a start if you ask me?

What do you guys think?

mic

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Maybe we should post a bug report on bugs.gentoo.org. I heard retinalburn has no interest in further developement of the mach64 driver because his own mach64 notebook is broken. Maybe the gentoo devs and maintainers know someone who would develop it further and make it usable with kernel 2.6.
What do you guys think? Bug the maintainers with this issue?

mic

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

dberkholz · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject:

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Hello again!

Couldn't wait for xfree 4.4.0 because I wanted to get speedstep finally up and running on this box. So upgraded to development-sources-2.6.0 and afterwards to xfree-3.99.602 (4.4.0-rc2). First I wasn't sure if I should use USE="gatos" for xfree because the xfree mach64 drivers seem to be derived from gatos.sf.net. But then I read it's for developers so I didn't use it.

So when the emerging was finished I used startx and xvinfo said I had xv. I tried with mplayer but mplayer was telling me something of limited resources and didn't start. Then I changed depth from 24 to 16 in xfrees config and it worked. 24 worked with the older drivers.

Thanks!

mic

dberkholz · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 4:04 am Post subject:

percking · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 90

has anything further come of dri support for the mach64 chipset in the 2.6 series kernel??
i've read posts saying to wait for the latest version of xfree or some such "wait".
I just wanted to know if anybody has successfully (and reproducibly) gotten dri to work with the 2.6 series kernel?

mark

dberkholz · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:01 am Post subject:

Sir Al · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:26 am Post subject:

kon · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject:

Good news!

http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_status.html

Sir Al · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:02 am Post subject:

adastra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 106

I've been following this post because I have recently had the problem myself. But I have had mach64 working with gentoo-dev-sources.2.6.4-r1, just not at the moment.

On a previous install, I was using the lastest gentoo-gaming sources (2.4.20-r8) and had mach64 working fine. I decided to try the 2.6 kernel. All I did was do the "make -f Makefile.linux" from the DRI build guide and compiled the kernel module against the 2.6 sources. Installed the module and everything was great. Then I got a new hard drive . . . .

Since I had the 2.6 working so well, I went straight for it. Now when I try to compile the DRI mach64 trunk it errors out with

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:52 pm Post subject:

Mesa CVS has been a little broken lately. You could try building against one of the latest releases and see how that goes.

adastra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 106

spyderous, pleasure to finally talk to you.

What do you mean "the latest releases"? Isn't the checkout from CVS the absolute latest? Is there a way to get a previous version of the mach64 DRI tree?

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:14 am Post subject: