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germanobax
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: DRI dont work with Radeon XPress 200M and opensource Drivers |
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Hello all! I've tried everthing I found on google and the forums and still can't find the way to make DRI work with my ATI Radeon XPress 200M and the opensource drivers.
I don't want to install the closed source because I want to use beryl, and these drivers can't do the job, AFAIK.
So, here I am, trying to figure out what is going wrong. I made everything I could think of.
My Xorg.conf (the interesting part)
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Section "Module"
[...]
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
Load "glx"
[...]
EndSection
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Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200M (RS480)"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
Option "AccelDFS" "1"
Option "GARTSize" "64"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
Option "ColorTiling" "1"
Option "dri" "true"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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#composite is disabled
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Modules I have enabled in the kernel and that are loaded by /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:
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agpgart
amd64-agp
drm #this one was built by emerge x11-drm
radeon #this one too
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Dmesg doesn't show anything.
However, /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows this:
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(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5955)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xc0000000
(II) RADEON(0): PCI card detected
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering broken on XPRESS 200 and 200M
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(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(**) RADEON(0): Setting up final surfaces
(**) RADEON(0): Initializing Acceleration
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer.
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
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(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(II) Loading local sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) GLX: Initialized MESA-PROXY GL provider for screen 0
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The "Direct rendering broken on XPRESS 200 and 200M" part makes me wonder whether or not a workaround exists. What can I do now?
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gami
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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You are probably out of luck for a while yet with the free drivers. 3D support is hindered by the lack of documentation for the Xpress 200M chipset.
See e.g. this message for a statement from one of the leading X developers:
| Adam Jackson wrote: | | ATI refuse to tell us how the memory controller works on the xpress chips, so 3D support is dependent on either that happening, or someone just figuring it out on their own. |
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aliram
n00b
Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 6
Location: Glendale
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: How far are you in your installation |
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here I hope this helps
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Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
# Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
Load "dri"
EndSection
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Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter (Primary)"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "DesktopSetup" "single"
Option "Capabillities" "0x00000000"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "FSAAEnable" "off"
Option "FSAAScale" "0"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "UseFastTLS" "on"
Option "BlockSignalOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
# Option "MergedFB" "true"
# Option "MetaModes" "1440x900-640x480 640x480-1440x900"
# Option "MergedDPI" "100 100
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter (Secondary)"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
Screen 0
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "0"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
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If that helps let me know but make sure you use the ati-drivers 8.32 or above |
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aliram
n00b
Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 6
Location: Glendale
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: oh yeah one more thing... |
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You can get beryl to work with the closed drivers you just got to make sure that you use the svn version
I've gotten my to work |
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