ATI radeon Sticky

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

Hi, I haven't gotten any responses, so I just wanted to know, is there any hope for a dual monitor setup (two ATI Radeon cards) w/ working DRI?

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:49 am Post subject:

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:53 am Post subject:

propheci · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2002 Posts: 72 Location: IL, USA

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

tgz · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 10 Location: NYC

I will be emerging xfree again tomorrow, should I just do emerge xfree, or should i do emerge xfree-4.3.0-r2, is there a difference between the two, and if so can someone explain the difference.

Thanks,

TGZ

Luud · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:44 pm Post subject:

Hi,

For those who want XFree 4.3.0(-r2), ATI-Drivers-2.9.12 and dual-head, I suggest you take a look at:

Forum -> Multimedia

Topic -> dualhead with XFree86 4.3.0 and a Radeon 9700 pro

I just solved my dual head problem :lol:

and posted as much info as possible describing how I got it fixed. It might help you as well.

Cheers,
Luud
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soravok · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 4

I got my drivers working with the radeon 9000 but I'm having severe performance issues I can only seem to get glx gears to do about 1200 fps
my system specs are P4 2.4ghz 533 FSB, Asus p4s533, 512 DDR pc2700, Radeon 9000. I figure I should be atleast getting way more FPS than what I am getting.

Eyecannon · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 26

Hi, I'm having trouble getting X to work with my Radeon 7500 Mobility (M7)... the error I get in Xfree is:

Symbol drmGetClient from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: I have managed to fix the problem with a simple

StuntRock · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 1

dnaquin · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject:

dberkholz · Edited 07/22/2003:

To sum up the current status on IGP stuff,

2D acceleration is now supported (use any xfree-drm from -r3 up):
http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36

3D acceleration is not supported, but here's an idea:
http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=314

paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

dberkholz

saskatchewan46 · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Saskatchewan

Hi all,
I am having difficulties getting DRI enabled with my Radeon7500.
I have followed the steps in this forum and others,
1) Compile AGPART as module with VIA chipset
2) Removed DRM support from kernel
3) booted the compiled 2.4.21-ac4 kernel
4) emerge xfree-drm
5) edited the XF86Config to load dri, drm, and glx

glxinfo says Rendering: No
I notice that every time I try to emerge xfree-drm,

stustill · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:10 am Post subject:

AFAIK, the latest versionof xfree-drm does not support kernel 2.4.21. Try using a 2.4.20 kernel. I recommend gaming-sources, with which I received much better performance than 2.4.20!

Stu

dberkholz · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:17 am Post subject:

The problem is more likely in the 2.4.21 kernels, which left out some necessary functions. Try ac-sources-2.4.21-r4 or ac-sources-2.4.22_pre3-r1.

saskatchewan46 · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Saskatchewan

I will try that, and let you guys know. Thanks.

stustill · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:23 am Post subject:

saskatchewan46 · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Saskatchewan

Ok, after about 5 different kernel compiles, I still am unable to get drm to work. I tried to emerge both the gaming sources and gentoo sources but couldn't get the kernel to boot off of my HP372 Raid0 boot drive with either (panic). I even tried using the same .config from the working ac-kernel i am using.

I attempted to compile with the 2.4.22 ac pre release but I wasn't even able to get it to compile for some reason (***vmlinux failed***).

So I was able to compile and boot 2.4.21-rc7-ac1, but I get the same unresolved symbol radeon.o error when trying to emerge xfree-drm.

Is there a different kernel that supports HP372 raid controller and would allow me to get drm functioning?

Thanks again.

saskatchewan46 · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Saskatchewan

Hey!! I got it. After some further forum searching, someone stated that the gs-sources support HPT372. I compiled 2.4.22_pre2-gss, booted it, then emerged xfree-drm-r2 and Rendering is now enabled and I have 850ish fps in gears.

Note: After compiling this kernel, I tried to emerge xfree-drm-r5 but I also got the same error "Unresolved symbol radeon.o". Maybe it wasn't a kernel issue but rather xfree-drm version issue? Dunno...

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 2:27 am Post subject:

Trust me, it's the kernel.
This line is missing from arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c

EXPORT_SYMBOL(mmu_cr4_features);

It comes in the section starting with:
/* platform dependent support */

Among other things. I'm trying to determine what those things are, and they're hidden somewhere in the 8MB diff between .21-ac3 and .21-ac4.

saskatchewan46 · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Saskatchewan

I guess I still have some more tweaking to do. glxgears now measures 1050 FPS (screen maximized) after tweaking the XF86Config file, but tuxracer is still extremely choppy. I thought tuxracer would be a good 3D app to test my DRM with, so obviously my setup isn't working properly yet.

Maybe I'll try to patch the gaming sources for HPT370 controllers (I found it somewhere in the forum).

dberkholz · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:53 am Post subject:

Hysteric · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 46 Location: Québec

All I had to do for my radeon 9000 pro to work was to emerge xfree, then emerge xfree-drm, then in XF86Config, I need to tell X to use the driver radeon... That's all... But my 3d works great with tuxracer, ut, quake3, but when I get to new games like NWN and UT2003 it sucks big time... If someone has a clue...

BTW, my system can run those game without effort in windows, so this is not the hardware...

Hysteric