[Solved] No direct rendering for integrated Radeon

fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

My harddrive recently crashed, so when I went to get a new one, I decided to install (Gentoo) Linux rather than to mess around with Windows cd-key registration, etc. My goal was to switch completely over to Linux, but just in case I left a spare 40 GB partition for Windows. However, the longer I mess around with this computer, the more thankful I am that I left that partition open. After a dozen kernel recompiles (with genkernel it takes a LONG time), scores of X restarts, several emerges, and tens of hours browsing the internet to try and get direct rendering to work, I'm just about ready to give up. I've followed everything on the Gentoo Wiki regarding the open-source Radeon drivers and nothing under the troubleshooting section has worked. I've read posts on other forums with people saying "I've tried everything, and I finally found the solution! Here it is!" and their solutions never worked. I can't necessarily tell you everything that I've tried, since I haven't been keeping track.

Regarding the proprietary ATI drivers, everytime I set fglrx as the driver in my xorg.conf, when I startx I get a message saying (EE) No devices detected. I read somewhere that the statement I received meant that the device is unsupported. However, I couldn't find a list of what versions of the drivers supported what devices, so I'm hoping that someone here can help me out.

In short, when I use the open-source drivers, I fail to get direct rendering, but when I use the proprietary drivers, X fails to start.

I'm not sure what logs, etc., you need to help diagnose the problem, so I guess I'll post on request. BTW, I have an AMD AthlonXP M processor and a Radeon IGP320 integrated chip (it's a laptop).

sonicbhoc · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject:

For the record, your problem probably isn't with Linux, but the fact that you just happened to be unlucky enough to be stuck with a video card from a vendor that probably couldn't write a coherent cross-platform "hello world!" program.

Stay away from ATI. Avoid it like the plague; even Intel cards work better in Linux than those things :evil:

Now then, if we're going to get that card to work, we'll need the xorg logs (found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log) from the open source driver (try this one first) and the proprietary one.

To get the logs, change to the open source driver, start X and logout. Then, copy and paste the log somewhere (it might not fit completely on the board, so try putting it on pastebin.com or something) and give us a link to it.
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fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

Yeah, well, unfortunately I can't do anything about the ATI chip in there, since it's integrated. My video card burned out on my Linux desktop, and I replaced that with an nVidia, after reading about its phenominal support on Linux. I got direct rendering working fine on it, and it runs Call of Duty better than this Windows laptop did.

To start, here's my Xorg.0.log from the radeon boot.

Now here it is from the fglrx boot.

Thanks for your interest in helping me!

Ehnvis · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 305 Location: /dev/random

There is absolutely nothing wrong with ATI and linux, you just need to know what to do and it usually takes a bit longer to setup than Nvidia.

You problem is that the IGP 320M isnt supported by the fglrx drivers and you need to use the ATI Radeon DRI drivers from the kernel. Can you paste your xorg.conf here so we can have a look?
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fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

I just remembered this: a few months ago I tried something called Kororaa, which is basically a live cd that shows off aiglx, xgl, compiz, and Gentoo, among other things. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these (probably not many), they let you view your desktops as part of a rotatable cube, with other interface effects. Something about this live cd must've configured itself right, because the interface was definitely too smooth to be CPU rendered. However, I do not have the cd with me to test it out at the moment.

Anyway, this was generated by xorgconfig, but I removed the comments for ease of reading.

Ehnvis · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 305 Location: /dev/random

Hmm, did have another look on the log from the radeon driver and it looks like something is wrong with drm. Do you have x11-libs/libdrm installed? And does VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf contain radeon?
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fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

I do not have libdrm installed, however I have drm installed as a module in the kernel. Also, there is no VIDEO_CARDS in my make.conf.

Ehnvis · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 305 Location: /dev/random

Add VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" to /etc/make.conf and at the same time add INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" when you still have it opened. Then do an emerge xorg-server and this should pull in all needed stuff.
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fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

Ehnvis · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 305 Location: /dev/random

Its to make sure you have all needed drivers for mouse and keyboard and if you look at the guides for setting up X.org it clearly tells you to add those variables to make.conf.
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fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

Ok, I just finished emerging xorg-server with those flags in my make.conf. Still no direct rendering, however glxgears is smooth for about 2 seconds, but then goes extremely choppy. Oddly enough, the FPS reading remains at about 300, when it looks like about 3-4. Should I try to re-emerge my entire system?

mimosinnet · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

I have open source ati drivers working (Radeon 9200). These are my settings so you can check if they are similar to yours.

fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

I set my opengl with eselect to xorg-x11, still no luck. My make.conf matches yours as far as VIDEO_CARDS goes, my kernel config matches yours, but glxinfo still shows no direct rendering. The only thing different were my lsmod results. Radeon was not loaded, drm was not loaded, ati_agp was loaded instead of sis_agp (since my chipset is different than yours) and my agpgart entry reports fglrx,ati_agp.

mimosinnet · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

fartgeyser · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 46

Here's the dump from glxinfo. Does this look normal to you?

mimosinnet · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:50 am Post subject:

You have now direct rendering. Could you please add [SOLVED] to the heading of the thread?

Cheers!