Trouble with DRI on ATI Mobility Radeon X300

royolsen · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Norway

I'm happy to say that I have gotten every aspect of my new Dell Lattitude D610 laptop working with GNU/Linux .. except for DRI.

My D610 has a Mobility X300 PCI-eXpress adapter with 64 MB memory, which I was told was a very good choice for a linux laptop these days. Whenever direct rendering is enabled, Xorg locks up just after sucessfully initializing the DRI. A reboot is needed to remove the complete and utter blackness. If I have DRI disabled, the internal LCD panel also goes blank, but ctl-alt-backspace works, and I get a picture if I connect an external monitor. Oh, and if I switch to an external monitor and back, I even get a picture on the internal LCD. (This is not a problem with the Xorg radeon driver, which works perfectly even with the 1400x1050 SXGA+ resolution.)

However, since the Xorg radeon driver does not support DRI on the newer chips, I have tried various versions of the ATI provided driver. I've also tried a number of different configurations on different combinations of driver, kernel and Xorg. I've even tried installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 after reading on a Fedora forum that someone got it working on a D610. Turns out the guy had installed fglrx but not changed his configuration to use it, and was actually still running the Xorg radeon driver, without DRI ;-)

I've followed the Gentoo ATI Howto, aswell as the extra howto I found here in the forum, but to no avail. What drives me nuts is that everything seems to work perfectly. The module seem to load nicely, Xorg is not complaining etc. Eager to get rid of the Windows parition, I'm now hoping that someone here is running the Mobilty X300 with 3D accelleration, perhaps even on a Lattitude D610 or other sonoma based laptop, and can tell me what they did to make it work.

My complete xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log can be found here:

http://roy.nu/xorg.conf.txt
http://roy.nu/Xorg.0.log.txt

Note that these are from my RHEL4 installation, but are quite comparable to the Gentoo ones.

yaneurabeya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1754 Location: Seattle

Is that card an OpenGL based one? If so, maybe it's like the nVidia cards and has issues with DRI.

royolsen · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Norway

I'm not sure what you mean with OpenGL based, but this is not an ATI FireGL card.

Obviously it does have some issues with DRI, however the chip is listed and reckognized by the driver from ATI.

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royolsen · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Norway

As far as I know, all ATI cards are OpenGL supported, however, the ATI driver lists the chip as supported by their DRI driver.

Anyway, I'm still looking for someone with experience with Mobility X300.

Wedge_ · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:

Why have you got "MonitorLayout" set to "NONE, NONE"? Someone recently had a similar problem with their Mobilty Radeon, and what fixed it was just changing the "MonitorLayout" setting to "LVDS, AUTO".
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royolsen · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Norway

tawtao · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:

tawtao

AvantLegion · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 59

I have DRI working with the "fglrx" driver on my x300 Radeon Mobility in my Dell Inspiron 6000.

I didn't do anything special, really.

I do have "/dev/agpgart support" compiled in, because the fglrx driver needs it, even though, yes, this chip is PCI Express. Beyond that, I had to make sure to turn that damn "MonitorLayout" setting off of "NONE, NONE" - on my laptop, I'm using "LVCD, AUTO".

heikole

mikkoloo · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject:

hm dang, just bought this laptop (dell, yet to be shipped) with the hope that the ati driver would work nicely. is this a problem for everyone or are some people lucky? Let us know if you solve it too eh.

edit: just a shot in the dark, have you tried the "UseInternalAGPGART" setting? Saw it on some other thread.

more edit: check this link out:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&message.id=5917#M5917

even more edit: ati-drivers-8.12.10 are in portage and i heard it solve problems for some. worth a try.

royolsen · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Norway

The guy on the dell forum probably forgot to load the kernel module, and so is running without DRI. In other words, the problem still exists with the 8.12.10 driver from ATI.

edit> Yes, the different AGPGART settings have been tried to no avail.

mikkoloo · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:

Just another thought, the: Bus Options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) -> PCI Express support, have nothing to do with this? Guess you all have this enabled already.

royolsen · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Norway

PCI Express must be enabled or you will get unresolved symbol error messages.

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

I have a D610, with the X300.

the new 8.12.10 fglrx drivers work great,
I have also found that they dont play nice with the radeonfb module, but was somewhat fixed by adding "vram=64" to the end of the kernel line in grub.
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linumik · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 102

I tried 8.12.10 with dri enabled and I still got black screen, computer hanged and required hard reboot. It works fine with dri disabled though. Are you sure that you have DRI on? What glxinfo outputs?

If everything works fine for you, can you give more information on your kernel and X config files, modules loaded and also what kernel sources you use.

thanks.

Zugot · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 23

I'm also interested in this. The radeon module works, but I still want fully accelerated X.

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

the radeonfb module is only needed for a frame buffer console.

basicly what i did was this:
Configure the kernel to use vesafb,
shut of kernel DRI COMPLETELY,
made the intel_agp driver a MODULE
and PCI Express MUST be configured static to work.

I then ran fglrxconfig, added
Option "KernelModuleParam" "agplock=0"

to the device section, and made sure that

Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, AUTO"

Was set as above.

here is my glxinfo output:

linumik · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 102

Tried all that but it still doesn't work. It might be something else that I have setup differently.

Can you please email your .config and xorg.conf files to me? Address is - linumik at simplecheck dot net

thanks.

[edit]
I compiled a kernel with the configuration you posted in another thread... it didn't work. I still get black screen on the X start. The log shows that DRI was initialized successfully, but nothing works and X can't be killed/restarted.

I use gentoo-sources 2.6.11-gentoo-r9

linumik · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 102

Thank you, beatryder, for the files!

Unfortunatelly, it didn't work. It drives me crazy that the same config doesn't work on the same laptops the same way. I wonder what else can be different between our systems? xorg build?

can you send me following out put

emerge xorg-x11 -pv

Thanks!

PS
I tried to email you but, got an error back "User unknown"

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

Hmm... I wonder which email address you were using.(I have 9 so I have trouble keeping them straight)

you can use this one to email me:

beatryder at gmail dot com
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Tomator · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 26

I have an IBM ThinkPad T43 with the ATI Mobility Radeon X300, and I have the same problems with DRI acceleration. The only errors that appear are of the "unresolved symbol" variety, even though PCI Express is compiled into the kernel. I've followed all the directions I could find, but DRI will still not work. If anyone has luck getting this to work, please provide an update.

linumik · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 102

beatryder, can you post your make.conf file? Thanks.

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

Sure, altho, you may want to not that my CFLAGS DO NOT WORK for libsdl, but everything else seems to work