Yet another problem with fglrx drivers

ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

So! I installed the ati drivers according to the HOWTO. But I'm still getting mesa3d listed instead of radeon. Here are some bits up front, let me know if there's anything else I should post.

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ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

Did that, at least, I think I did (I'm a noob when it comes to compiling a custom kernel). Options are:

Darknight · Guru Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 483 Location: Italy

What's your lsmod output?
Compare your lsmod output with the names of the modules you need (you can see their names looking in menuconfig using the help button). You may have to load them if they are missing, using modprobe.
I'd just compile them in-kernel, using * instead of M in menuconfig, either that or add them to module autoload:

fuzzythebear · Guru Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 317

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)

that might be it .. i mean .. says intel agp .. you have put in a via
maybe you could look in this a bit more ..
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ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

Hopeful bump.

srm · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject:

i would suggest you try using intel agp-chipset first.
please, what is an agp-ethernet?
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ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

One more bump... :*(

srm · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:40 am Post subject: deleted and rewritten

Please read carefully!

Dear ShodoPan,
i'm quite upset you didn't answer my last post.
One thing was, if you'd like to tell me about all this nifty AGP-Ethernet stuff and so forth.
Next question was about tryin' the Intel-AGPGart. But well, as you mentioned, you were advised to do it this way and thank god, it looks like it somehow works.
Now let's come to the fun part.
You are writing that you receive some kind of nasty error message:
Code:
"[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process XXXX using kernel context 0"

and you are stating that uncle google was not able to help you.
Well, glad to tell you i asked my dear aunty Google, i mentioned "fglrx firegl process using kernel context 0" and it told me to look at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx .
Especially one part was quite interesting:
Zitat:
Error messages in system log

If you find something like the following in /var/log/messages:

kernel: mtrr: base(0xc0000000) is not aligned on a size(0x7ff0000) boundary
kernel: [fglrx:firegl_addmap] *ERROR* mtrr allocation failed (-22)
kernel: [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 5132 using kernel context 0

try to execute the following line and reload the fglrx module:

# echo "base=0xd0000000 size=0x8000000 type=write-combining" > /proc/mtrr

Have you seen this hint before? If not, i hope this is something that will help you, even if you did not post an mtrr error.
Mybe something else:
What about https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=351785 ?

ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

Sorry, I thought you were suggesting enabling the chipset in my kernel config, which, as I mentioned, I have already done. As for the second question, for some reason I was confusing AGP and PCI, my mistake.

I guess I forgot to mention that I have tried setting "UseInternalAGPGART" to both yes and no, and have seemingly identical results on both (same error log output and so on).

I checked my mtrr settings, and they look correct (I have 1 gig of RAM):

srm · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:52 am Post subject:

it doesn't seem like you are experiencing one of the wrong-link-errors mentioned in the wiki, right(?).

let's get back:

i can't see you've mentioned that you've tried using the intel-agp module

but never mind,
please do never tell everybody that you're dumb or whatever. that makes no point for the whole story, we will judge you by ourselfes

O.k.
It got a little bit confusing. Please, post your dmesg (the boot-up messages) regarding all agp/fglrx stuff.
Post your X11 log when starting your X-Server.

Hopefully, we can see something new in there.
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ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

Do you want the whole Xorg log? I pasted it here: http://pastie.caboo.se/38352

jdkbx · n00b Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 40

check this thread

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-534626-start-25-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-ati+xorg.html?sid=629f8af6163b8655b5c3e1a692d47327

i had the same problem after i upgraded xorg to 7.2 (xorg-server-1.2)

solution was to upgrade the ati-driver to 8.33.6

ShodoPan · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 14

Damn, got all hopeful, upgraded, and exact same problem. Even went so far to try unmerging ati-drivers and ati-drivers-extra and going through the whole setup bit again, still no luck. Logs look the same too.

For what it's worth, I recently burned a lg3d livecd 3.0.0, and that loads into mesa3d drivers as well.