ATI-Drivers not working with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10

plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

I just dont get why you need to have an AGP card in order to get it running properly.
If I use the internal AGP driver in the driver, would that help (I was doi that before but I have since switched it to 'no' in my xorg.conf)?

I havnt tried it with any other particular kernel specific AGP settings other than how its setup now.
Do I need to turn off AGP support in my kernel for this to work?
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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:55 pm Post subject:

Oh right well I see where you're going.

How do I disable AGP support?
Do I need to re-compile the whole kernel for that?

EDIT: Also, could you please advise me as to what command I would use to do this?
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blossa · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 169

Merging the ATI-driver went ok BUT when I try to rebuild the kernel with 'make && make modules_install' the process stops after:

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:

@plonka2000: OK, start by cd'ing to your kernel source dir with "cd /usr/src/linux". Then run "make menuconfig", and find the "Device drivers -> Character devices -> /dev/agpgart (AGP support)" setting. Disable it by highlighting it and pressing "n". Then hit ESC until you get back to the top level menu. Hit ESC again, and say yes when it asks you if you want to save your config. Then run "make && make modules_install" to compile everything. Once that's done, do "cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/<whatever name you want>" (make sure /boot is mounted first

), and update your bootloaders configuration file with a new entry for this kernel. Then reboot and select the new kernel from the menu, emerge the drivers again after it's done booting, and see if things are any better.

@blossa: does it do that every time you try it? You could try cleaning up the kernel source dir and compiling again:

plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject:

Ok well I've done all that and I'm gonna reboot now.
KDE has been kind enough (it seems) to update my bootloader for me.

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plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject:

Well I've rebooted and still no change.

The only thing I noticed that is different was there was an error when starting up stating that 'sis_agp' could not be loaded... But I guess that shows AGP is disabled.

For some reason however there is still no change in anything otherwise.

I tried setting the 'UseInternalAGPGART' option to yes and no. no change.

:?:

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blossa · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 169

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

@plonka2000: Are you still seeing the AGP errors in your log and dmesg output?

At this point I think you might be better off trying the kernel radeon driver instead. Have you used it before? If not I can tell you how to set it up.

@blossa: you can view the actual commands by doing "export KBUILD_VERBOSE=1" before running "make && make modules_install". That should allow you to see which command it's hanging on.
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plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Here is the end of the dmesg log:

plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

Just thought I'd let you know, the aim of this particular PC is to go on my TV as a MythTV box and also to serve my web/ftp server.

The web/ftp part i'm working on but MythTV is causing me no end of problems... As far as I know, I need full radeon support in order to get MythTV running properly.

Do you have any idea if this is true?

Again thanks for all your help.
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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject:

The FireGL stuff appears because the ATI Linux driver originally started out only supporting the highend FireGL cards. They adapted it for Radeons afterwards, since they're somewhat similar. firegl_unlock will just be an internal function name.

plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject:

Would you suggest I just use the kernel driver then and see how I fare with that?

I'm pretty sure I had it setup before, but I'll be very grateful if you could tell me how to do it?

Thanks for assistance.

EDIT: Here is my old xorg.conf using the kernel driver.
Could you have a look over it for me?
http://plonka2000.homelinux.com/linux/xorg.conf.old01
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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that.

I'm pretty sure those are still compiled into my kernel already... As thats how the recommended setup is. All I (should) need to do in that case is swap over the xorg.conf files and restart X.

Also do you know of anywhere in particular where I could find any advice on running MythTV on Gentoo? I've been bouncing around these forums for months and it seems this will never be setup...

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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

plonka2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject:

Well thanks very much for your help Wedge_, you've been a great help in helping me get closer to the root of this.

I think I'll keep working on it a bit more before I revert back to the kernel driver though.

Also, I will continue on the road of Linux enlightenment and the journey to make the perfect MythTV PC...

Thanks for all your help.
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Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject:

If you're going to keep trying to get the ATI driver working, you might want to check you don't have the kernel driver compiled in, or loaded as a module. It can cause problems with the ATI driver if it's loaded at the same time.
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Sfpiano · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 2

I'm trying to get the ati drivers working for my 9800 pro, with no luck. When I run startx I says Error Caught Signal 11. I've read over the faq and it says to comment out the line xtrap in the modules section, but the phrase 'xtrap' doesn't appear in my xorg.conf file. Strangely enough all I have to do to get X working again is to change the line
Driver "fglrx" to Driver "ati", and everything loads correctly.

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject:

The xtrap thing isn't the only cause of that problem. Have you checked if you built Xorg with any of USE flags "hardened" "dlloader" and "static"?
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Sfpiano · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 2

I checked, none of them are there. Also, in the log file it outputs, it seems to load everything correctly until it hits the driver.

plonka2000 · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:

hi again,

For some reason I cant get my sis_agp back up again.

I've recompiled the kernel with all the options back to how they were but for some reason I still get the error during startup telling me that sis_agp could not be loaded...

Is there something important/obvious I'm missing here?
Since I'm using a PCI card, and since the error is coming from my /etc/modules.autoload.d file I've commented out the entry.

Now the system boots without the error but I do wonder.

Is there not some way to make some sort of 'virtual' AGP port that kinda points to my PCI 9200 instead?
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alienvenom · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:16 am Post subject:

I'm running kernel 2.6.10-r5. With the latest ati-drivers instsalled correctly (I've checked just about every tutorial, checked glxinfo, dmesg and Xorg's log) I get frequent lockups. Direct rendering is enabled, and everything (in my opinion) should be alright. I have a Radeon Mobility 9200 with 64MB of VRAM.

Using the default radeon ones built into Xorg, however, does NOT cause it freeze. When it does freeze (usually after leaving the screensavers run for a long time) my entire system locks up. I can't use the keyboard or mouse.

Has anyone experienced such problems? Does anyone have any ideas how to fix it?

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:33 am Post subject: