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lexgod
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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:55 pm    Post subject: Getting my Mobility 9600/m10 working in 3d mode in Gentoo. Reply with quote

Hello, I am having a heck of a time trying to get my m10/9600 working.

There is soo many diferent ways to do it and I am confused.

I did use Genkernel - all so i think all modules are loaded, last time I had gentoo on my putter there was limited support for my card.

Now I keep hearing it is possible to get my card working in 3d.

could someone point me in the direction of a howto that would work for me.

I have searched and found a few. but they all differ. and as I said I am confused.

all I need is for someone to point me to the correct one. thanks.


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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

This card should work with 3d acceleration using the xorg drivers. I don't know of any specific howto, but my Laptops card is also an M10 (althoug labeled Mobility Radeon 9700). You will need xf86-video-ati merged and a Device section similar to this in xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier                      "Radeon0"
        Driver "radeon"
        Option "AGPMode"                "8"
        Option "GARTSize"               "64"
        Option "FBTexPercent"           "50"
        Option "DisplayPriority"        "HIGH"
        Option "ColorTiling"            "1"
        Option "EnablePageFlip"         "1"
        Option "EnableDepthMoves"       "1"
        Option "AccelMethod"            "XAA"
        Option "SubPixelOrder"          "RGB"
        Option "ConstantDPI"            "1"
        Option "DynamicClocks"          "1"
        Option "VGAAccess"              "0"
        Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"  "true"
        BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


This is actually the Device section for my laptops card. You don't need all the Option "..." lines, but they speed up 3d quite a bit for me. The important thing here is the Driver "radeon" part. You will also need dri and radeon modules in your kernel config, but I think they are included by genkernel (don't know for sure, I don't use genkernel)

Hope this works for you

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2007 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

could you please post your autoconf.d/ kernel autostart file

and your whole xorg.conf

thanks
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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2007 5:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 is empty for my setup. If you have your agp-driver (intel-agp in my case) build as module you should add it to the autoloaded modules (I have it built into the kernel, but I think genkernel builds most things as modules)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Code:

Section "dri"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load        "glx"   # libglx.a
    Load        "dri"   # libdri.a
    Load        "drm"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

#Section "ServerFlags"
#    Option "NoTrapSignals"
#    Option "DontZap"
#    Option "Dont Zoom"
#    Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
#    Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"
#    Option "DisableModInDev"
#    Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"
#EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver              "kbd"
    Option              "AutoRepeat"    "500 30"
    Option              "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"

    Option              "XkbModel"              "pc105"
    Option              "XkbLayout"             "de"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver              "mouse"
    Option              "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
    Option              "Protocol"              "auto"
    Option              "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
    Option              "Buttons"               "7"
    Option              "ButtonMapping"         "1 2 3 6 7"
    Option              "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"

EndSection
Section "InputDevice"

    Driver      "synaptics"
    Identifier  "Touchpad"
    Option      "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
    Option      "LeftEdge"              "1700"
    Option      "RightEdge"             "5300"
    Option      "TopEdge"               "1700"
    Option      "BottomEdge"            "4200"
    Option      "FingerLow"             "35"
    Option      "FingerHigh"            "40"
    Option      "MaxTapTime"            "180"
    Option      "MaxTapMove"            "220"
    Option      "VertScrollDelta"       "100"
    Option      "MinSpeed"              "0.06"
    Option      "MaxSpeed"              "0.12"
    Option      "AccelFactor"           "0.0010"
    Option      "SHMConfig"             "on"

EndSection


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier          "Monitor0"
    HorizSync           28.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh         60
    ModeLine            "1280x800" 108.0 1280 1376 1488 1800 800 800 808 850 +hsync +vsync
    Option              "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier                      "Radeon0"
        Driver "radeon"
        Option "AGPMode"                "8"
        Option "GARTSize"               "64"
        Option "FBTexPercent"           "50"
        Option "DisplayPriority"        "HIGH"          # Fix flickering
        Option "ColorTiling"            "1"
        Option "EnablePageFlip"         "1"
        Option "EnableDepthMoves"       "1"
        Option "AccelMethod"            "XAA"
        Option "SubPixelOrder"          "RGB"
        Option "ConstantDPI"            "1"
        Option "DynamicClocks"          "1"
        Option "VGAAccess"              "0"
        Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"  "true"
        Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,CRT"
        BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option "MergedFB" "false""
        Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
        Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen0"
    Device      "Radeon0"
    Monitor     "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"

         Identifier     "Server Layout"
    Screen                      "Screen0"
    InputDevice         "Mouse1" "AllwaysCore"
    InputDevice         "Touchpad" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice         "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option              "AIGLX"     "true"

EndSection


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