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hothead
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Thanks very much for this howto.
On my Thinkpad T41p (T2 Firegl graka) dri now works fine 
But one question:
I could only install x11-libs/libdrm and x11-misc/util-macros only with the
'--nodeps' option. Now everytime I want to update the system with 'emerge -vuD world' I get blocks.
| Code: | thinkpad winetools # emerge -pvuD world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-7 (is blocking x11-libs/libdrm-1.0.3)
[blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-7 (is blocking x11-misc/util-macros-0.99.0)
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r1 [4.8] -build +nls -static 1,486 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r1 [1.9.6] 747 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r2 [1.8.3-r1] +berkdb 223 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r6 [5.8.6-r5] +berkdb -build -debug -doc +gdbm -ithreads -minimal -perlsuid 9,465 kB
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 [3.3.4-r3] +cups -debug -doc -examples -firebird +gif -immqt -immqt-bc +ipv6 +mysql -nas -odbc +opengl -postgres +sqlite +xinerama 0 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-1.8.3 [1.8.2-r2] -cjk -doc -socks5 +tcltk* -threads 4,128 kB
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How can I change that?
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lroland
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| hothead wrote: |
# emerge -pvuD world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-7 (is blocking x11-libs/libdrm-1.0.3)
[blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-7 (is blocking x11-misc/util-macros-0.99.0)
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r1 [4.8] -build +nls -static 1,486 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r1 [1.9.6] 747 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r2 [1.8.3-r1] +berkdb 223 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r6 [5.8.6-r5] +berkdb -build -debug -doc +gdbm -ithreads -minimal -perlsuid 9,465 kB
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 [3.3.4-r3] +cups -debug -doc -examples -firebird +gif -immqt -immqt-bc +ipv6 +mysql -nas -odbc +opengl -postgres +sqlite +xinerama 0 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-1.8.3 [1.8.2-r2] -cjk -doc -socks5 +tcltk* -threads 4,128 kB
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I am struggling with this problem myself, unblocking xorg-x11-7 seams impossible as it is a phantom package - I will post a solution as soon as I discover one. |
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hothead
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I found a solution for that.
If you prevent these packages to be added to the world file
there is no problem when updating world.
| Code: | | emerge -v --oneshot --nodeps util-macros libdrm |
from 'man emerge'
| Code: | --oneshot (-1)
Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world profile for later updating. |
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lroland
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| hothead wrote: | Ok I found a solution for that.
If you prevent these packages to be added to the world file
there is no problem when updating world.
| Code: | | emerge -v --oneshot --nodeps util-macros libdrm |
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I added this to the original forum post and just tried following it from scratch and did not run into any issues. Also does anyone know which X release contains exa accell ? - adding
| Code: | | Option "AccelMethod" "exa" |
To /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not have any effect in Xorg-x11 6.8.99.15 - now that we have DRI working it sure would be nice to also have stellar composite performance
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| You mean newer right? |
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lroland
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| playfool wrote: | | You mean newer right? |
Well since xorg-x11 6.8.9.15 does not seams to contain exa accell I assumed that it will have to be never than that version, but it might very well be that it is only in CVS in which case I will have to wait for another release (CVS xorg-x11 ebuilds anyone ?). |
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Tazok
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for this great Howto. I got direct rendering to work, this are my experiences:
- about 1/2 of the performance with the fglrx-driver
- random pixels on the screen while running glxgears
- drm does not work with xinerama enabled, on starting with xinerama enabled, it tells me just this
- my second screen is scrabled, I'm seeing part of the content of the first screen, but repeated in four little boxes and full of graphic errors such as random pixels and lines. |
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lroland
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| Tazok wrote: | I got direct rendering to work, this are my experiences:
- about 1/2 of the performance with the fglrx-driver
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I can confirm this - I usually get 3500fps in glxgears using the flglrx drivers with the open source ones I get 1600 - however the actual peek 3D performance is not important to me, I just need some basic 2D/3D accell for composite/render/quake3, People who are playing Doom3 or other new games should properly still use the official ATI drivers. I am more concerned with stability and in this area the Xorg Radeon driver is leaps ahead of ATI.
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- random pixels on the screen while running glxgears
- drm does not work with xinerama enabled, on starting with xinerama enabled, it tells me just this
- my second screen is scrabled, I'm seeing part of the content of the first screen, but repeated in four little boxes and full of graphic errors such as random pixels and lines. |
Hmm I run MergedFB here and I see none of these problems, the following (partial) Xorg config will make the Radeon card use 1024x768 on the internal lcd display and 1280x1024 on the external (Note: only one screen/monitor section is needed (it controls the setup of the internal monitor) even though we have two displays):
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Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI"
Driver "radeon"
# accelration
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
# enable PowerPlay features
Option "DynamicClocks" "on"
# use bios hot keys on thinkpad (aka fn+f7)
Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
# enable radeon specific xinerama
Option "MergedFB" "true"
Option "CRT2Position" "RightOf"
Option "CRT2Hsync" "50-75"
Option "CRT2VRefresh" "30-82"
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768-1280x1024"
Option "MergedNonRectangular" "true"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "InternalLCD"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI"
Monitor "InternalLCD"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Tazok
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, I haven't heard of MergedFB before, but your setup works perfectly for two Monitors. The random pixels are also gone. I won't go back to fglrx again! |
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Tazok
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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I had my first crash with the driver while running xscreensaver.
Also, MergedFB is great for desktop usage, but fullscreen 3d-games are centered in the one big desktop instead of displayed on the first screen. Anything I can do about that? |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:23 am Post subject: |
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This is really good news. I've been following the dri mailing lists for some time now while deciding on which way to go in building my new system, debating between the Tyan S2885 and my current 9200 AGP or the S2892 and getting a new PCIe card. After seeing the progress they are making I ordered the S2892 and an ATI Radeon X800 XL just the other day figuring since the board has onboard Rage XL I've always got a backup.
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^marcs
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for this HT
however it doesn't work for me 
ive made everything as described and all was OK.
module radeon doesnt load when starting X
and when trying to load it manualy i receive
| Code: | modprobe radeon
FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.13-ck6/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) |
and dmesg says
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radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_len
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_addmap
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_start
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_cleanup_pci |
im using kernel 2.6.13-ck6
xorg 6.8.2-r5
running on ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 |
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Tazok
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| It doesn't work with Xorg 6.8.2, you need a newer version (6.8.99.15). Also, did you load the drm module before loading the radeon module? |
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lroland
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Tazok wrote: | I had my first crash with the driver while running xscreensaver.
Also, MergedFB is great for desktop usage, but fullscreen 3d-games are centered in the one big desktop instead of displayed on the first screen. Anything I can do about that? |
Regarding the crash, I have yet to experience my first one so I am a happy camper - the 3D game thing is more annoying, you properly need to do a man radeon to figure out the precise setup.
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Tazok
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| Hm, that option just switches the primary screen if I set it to true. Setting it to false doesn't make any difference for fullscreen applications, i. e. they are still centered between the screens. |
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^marcs
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Tazok wrote: | | It doesn't work with Xorg 6.8.2, you need a newer version (6.8.99.15). Also, did you load the drm module before loading the radeon module? |
Umm ive missunterstanded it, i tought i can apply newer radeon driver to "old" Xorg, on ill try then on 6.8.99.15.
And im also load drm before radeon module.
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jlward4th
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:53 am Post subject: |
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Thanks lroland for the HOWTO on this subject! I am having some problems though...
| Code: | drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
(II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default |
I was able to load the radeon and drm kernel modules via insmod. For some reason I got "FATAL: Module radeon not found." when I tried modprobe.
Here is my card model (from lspci):
| Code: | | ATI Technologies Inc M24 1T [FireGL M24 GL] |
I am lost on this one... And it's late. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.
-James |
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lroland
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| jlward4th wrote: |
I was able to load the radeon and drm kernel modules via insmod. For some reason I got "FATAL: Module radeon not found." when I tried modprobe.
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Did you run modules-update after installing the module ? - it might be needed to stop X completly and unload the drm/radeon modules then start X again (X should load the modules all by itself). |
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lroland
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| Tazok wrote: | | Hm, that option just switches the primary screen if I set it to true. Setting it to false doesn't make any difference for fullscreen applications, i. e. they are still centered between the screens. |
I turn off my internal screen using the BIOS hot keys on my laptop when I am gaming so I cannot help you on this one - I am however confident that there is a solution given that one of the strengths of MergedFB is acceleration on both screens.
It is often the case with centered apps that they are not Xinerama aware and thus know nothing of the fact that they are running on dual displays.
I have this strange problem where firefox when run from inside enlightenment will maximize accross both screens but when started in KDE it is perfectly aware of my two screens and maximizes accodeningly. So everything is not perfect yet, but it is still better than BigScreen setup using fglrx.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| jlward4th wrote: | | I was able to load the radeon and drm kernel modules via insmod. For some reason I got "FATAL: Module radeon not found." when I tried modprobe. |
Just a shot into the dark: Some of the ebuilds for ati-drivers seem to be borked, as they do not copy over the module to /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/<something>. Compare this thread, I know from my experience that this problem holds for ati-drivers 8.16.20 as well...
EDIT: Oops, sorry. This thread is indeed about the R300 drivers, I was crossreading too many threads at a time... 
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lroland
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Skystorm wrote: | | Just a shot into the dark: Some of the ebuilds for ati-drivers seem to be borked, as they do not copy over the module to /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/<something>. Compare this thread, I know from my experience that this problem holds for ati-drivers 8.16.20 as well... |
Not to be pedantic but this thread is about the free (open source) 2D/3D driver for Radeon based cards not the closed source official fglrx driver from ATI you are referring to. It is however right that the problem most likely is caused by the kernel modules being in the wrong place i.e. that the poster somehow have messed up this part of the installation:
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cp *.ko /lib/modules/{kernel_version}/kernel/drivers/char/drm
modules-update
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Where {kernel_version} should point to the kernel version as show by the uname command. |
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| ^marcs wrote: | | Tazok wrote: | | It doesn't work with Xorg 6.8.2, you need a newer version (6.8.99.15). Also, did you load the drm module before loading the radeon module? |
Umm ive missunterstanded it, i tought i can apply newer radeon driver to "old" Xorg, on ill try then on 6.8.99.15.
And im also load drm before radeon module.
Thanks. |
Hm, ive emerger xorg 6.8.99.15, made all steps one more and receiving the same error  | Code: |
odprobe radeon
FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.13-ck6/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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| Code: | radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_len
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_addmap
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_start
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_cleanup_pci |
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jlward4th
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I think that this error:
| Code: | | FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.13-ck6/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) |
is solved by doing a "modprobe drm" or in my case since modprobe doesn't find drm or radeon "sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.13-suspend2-r4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko"
I have run modules-update and don't understand why I can't modprobe those modules. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:47 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I think that this error:
Code:
FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.13-ck6/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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Can you post the output of 'dmesg' please.
The problem could be that either "agpgart" or your dependent agp module or both are missing. My thinkpad has a intel chipset so the my agp module is "intel-agp".
You can find the agp chipset options under "Device Drivers / Character devices" when running 'menuconfig'.
from 'lsmod'
| Code: | radeon 106944 1
intel_agp 20508 1
drm 67480 2 radeon
agpgart 29448 2 intel_agp,drm
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If you enable "dri" and "drm" in the Module Section of your xorg.conf the modules should get loaded automatically.
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Hm, ive emerger xorg 6.8.99.15, made all steps one more and receiving the same error
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odprobe radeon
FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.13-ck6/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
Code:
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_len
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_addmap
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_start
radeon: Unknown symbol drm_cleanup_pci
Hum you seems to have not properly installed drm.ko , are u sure that u installed it at the good location, and that the kernel enable such a support ?
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