2.6.29 and ATI drivers

milomak · Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 287

am i having this same problem when I have to set the driver to vesa and when i use startxfce4, the mouse and keyboard is dead?

even though i have settings in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-... that work on other distros?

milomak · Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 287

aaargh, I didn't have hald starting at boot :oops:

eis · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject:

Hi everyone!

This is an interesing thread and it seems to at least touch my problem as well. Here it goes:

I use the gentoo 2.6.27-r8 kernel, just as the stable portage tree offers it.
Ich compiled ati-drivers without errors.

When I set up the xdm (I tried both xdm and slim as the manager), I always get a welcome screen that freezes my whole system. I can only reset.

In my kernel I chose the following options, just as described in this gentoo-ati-howto.

---
Processor type and features --->
<*> MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support
Device drivers --->
Graphics support --->
<M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) --->
(The agpgart option is not present on 64-bit kernels; just choose your chipset support.)
<M> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 support
(Enable your chipset instead of the above.)
<M> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) --->
<M> (Select your graphics card from the list)
---

I have a 32 bit dell laptop with an ati mobilitiy X300 graphics card.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

greetings,

boris

milomak · Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 287

how can i find out what package is trying to pull ati-drivers even though I do not have fglrx in VIDEOCARDS?

ShinyDoofy · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 73

Either use the -t option on emerge or try "equery d ati-drivers"

eis · Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject:

hm..
still no solution for my problem. I never really thought about what kernel to use.
Usually I set all the options by hand, compile and install modules.
For updates I save the kernel configuration of the old kernel.

Is there a better way to go?

thanks in advance,

boris

emuller · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 23

Snake · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 146

I planned to upgrade to 2.6.29 from 2.6.27 in following days, but after seeing that topic, I think I'll stick to good old 27 :wink:

and wait for 2.6.30 to become stable and hope everything will be ok then.

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

@Snake: and just what will that change ? -
it's ati-drivers that are broken, not kernel.

adrs0061 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2009 Posts: 15

Im not sure why most here are using the closed source driver and maybe you have valid reasons i dont know but from where i stand i can only say that the opensource drivers (have them running in all of my computers) are the way to go there stable and dont make any hassle when updating the kernel or the xorg-server, and from now on there the only drivers which continue to support R500 and below

and also with all the work which is currently done around ATI KMS and radeon driver gallium 3d support the opensource drivers are definitely the way to go

just wanted to say that because i think most of you would have less problems if you don't need 3D support at the moment with the opensource drivers

regards

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5941

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:34 am Post subject:

Besides that, both radeonhd and radeon fails miserably for a lot of people, just like fglrx.

Even if you don't need 3d, you might have the *luck* that only fglrx works for you. The situation of ATi cards is chaotic, as always.

I have a 2600 on one computer, and both radeon and radeonhd crash my server at startup, causing one of my monitors to go standby and similar things. Yeah, ATi is specially daunting on setups with more than one monitor.

radio_flyer · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:41 am Post subject:

3D 3D 3D

Not for Compiz. Not for gaming. For engineering. Serious engineering work requires OpenGL.

I've run the radeon driver in the past on a 9200. Great 3D support. Loved it. On my current HD2600XT, I'm running fglrx ( and stuck at 2.6.28 ) because 3D is not optional. I'm running an ATI card solely because I know open-source R600 3D support is coming, thanks to ATI and the X developers. The moment usable open source 3D shows up in either the radeon or radeonhd driver, fglrx is *so* off my system...

emuller · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 23

I am using the AMD Stream SDK, which requires fglrx

For R700 based hardware (4850,4870,4870x2), the fglrx driver can be made to work. Stick with Xorg 1.5.3 or 1.5.2 for the time being (no >=1.6) and <=2.6.28 kernel.

Funny behaviour is usually due to /etc/ati/amdpcsdb

Generate your xorg.conf like so:

rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf

aticonfig --initial --adapter=all -f

But this is not a "fresh" config as the amdpcsdb remains. Deleting that can sometimes improve the situation.
Best thing is to keep all this stuff under revision control so one doesn't have to reinstall to get back to a working config ... see above post.

My trouble is I want to get more than two 4870x2 cards working with fglrx for stream computing. With that, I have not yet succeeded.

adrs0061 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2009 Posts: 15

in my experience i had a lot less problems with the opensource radeon driver, at least with the released versions, i dont use the radeonhd much, but i can't speak for anything newer then a RS600 and i don't use any 3D at, and the only experience with two monitor support is the RS600 which works with the radeon driver like a charm

excuse my shortsightedness on some of these issues :S

h2sammo · Veteran Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 1025 Location: Michigan

so, 2.6.30 was released.

1. does 2.6.29 work with ATI w/out additional tinkering?

2. does 2.6.30 support ATI video cards?

adrs0061 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2009 Posts: 15

2.6.30 does support radeon cards up to the R700 with 2D support (opensource), i dont think theres any fglrx support yet

im not sure what u mean with point 1. but theres no official 2.6.29 support within the fglrx driver

regards

theRealMorpheu5 · l33t Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 841 Location: Vicenza, IT

According to http://linux.com/community/blogs/ATI-Catalyst-fglrx-and-Kernels-2.6.30-2.6.29.html there seems to be a hope.

Is this happening anytime soon? Is anyone having random lockups (kernel panic with flashing caps-lock light and no more details) when using various xvideo/opengl applications? For example: I cannot play movies with Mplayer or work with Blender for long time since they, sooner or later, make the kernel panic.

EDIT: I'm using ati-drivers-8.593 and all the stable (not keyworded) Xorg things.

EDIT 2: Forgot to mention that I'm happily running kde-4.2.4-r2 with compositing enabled, and glxgears, as well as fgl_glxgears are apparently not causing any crash.

DevSolar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 82

nego · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 6

I have a ATI Sapphire 3850hd and the open source ati radeon drivers work flawlessly with the automatically generated xorg config. 2d and 3d acceleration work about as well as I've experienced with fglrx drivers. I only tried them after I could not manage to get fglrx working with the latest kernel.

sylvain_ · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 56

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5941

energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

with my HD3870, 2.6.29.X, catalyst 9.5&9.6

I need this patch:
diff -Nparu build_mod/firegl_public.c fglrx-8.573-new/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c
--- build_mod/firegl_public.c 2009-01-23 20:00:26.000000000 -0200
+++ fglrx-8.573-new/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2009-02-13 15:25:00.000000000 -0200
@@ -1460,7 +1460,11 @@ KCL_TYPE_Pid ATI_API_CALL KCL_GetTgid(vo
*/
KCL_TYPE_Uid ATI_API_CALL KCL_GetEffectiveUid(void)
{
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,2

+ return current->cred->euid;
+#else
return current->euid;
+#endif
}

/** /brief Delay execution for the specified number of microseconds
@@ -1832,15 +1836,30 @@ int ATI_API_CALL KCL_PosixSecurityCapChe
*/
void ATI_API_CALL KCL_PosixSecurityCapSetIPCLock(unsigned int lock)
{
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,2

+ struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
+ if (!new) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "fglrx: could not allocate memory\n");
+ return;
+ }
+#else
+#define new current
+#endif
if (lock == 0 )
{
- cap_lower(current->cap_effective, CAP_IPC_LOCK);
+ cap_lower(new->cap_effective, CAP_IPC_LOCK);
}
else
{
- cap_raise(current->cap_effective, CAP_IPC_LOCK);
+ cap_raise(new->cap_effective, CAP_IPC_LOCK);
}
- return;
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,2

+ commit_creds(new);
+#else
+#undef new
+#endif
}

/** \brief Get number of available RAM pages
diff -Nparu build_mod/firegl_public.h fglrx-8.573-new/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.h
--- build_mod/firegl_public.h 2009-01-23 20:00:26.000000000 -0200
+++ fglrx-8.573-new/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.h 2009-02-16 14:02:50.000000000 -0300
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#define _FIREGL_PUBLIC_H_

#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include "kcl_pci.h"
#include "kcl_io.h"

@@ -590,6 +591,11 @@ extern unsigned long KCL_SYSINFO_
#define cpu_has_pge test_bit(X86_FEATURE_PGE, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability)
#endif

+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,2

+#undef pgprot_writecombine
+#undef pgprot_noncached
+#endif
+
#ifndef pgprot_writecombine
#define pgprot_writecombine(prot) __pgprot((pgprot_val(prot) & ~(_PAGE_PCD)) | _PAGE_PWT)
#endif
@@ -598,6 +604,7 @@ extern unsigned long KCL_SYSINFO_
#define pgprot_noncached(prot) __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#endif

+
#endif //FIREGL_USWC_SUPPORT

diff -Nparu build_mod/kcl_acpi.c fglrx-8.573-new/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c
--- build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2009-01-23 20:00:26.000000000 -0200
+++ fglrx-8.573-new/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/kcl_acpi.c 2009-02-13 15:25:00.000000000 -0200
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
#include <linux/autoconf.h>
#include <linux/acpi.h>

+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,2

+#include <../drivers/acpi/acpica/acconfig.h>
+#include <../drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h>
+#include <../drivers/acpi/acpica/acobject.h>
+#endif
+
#include "kcl_config.h"
#include "kcl_type.h"
#include "kcl_acpi.h"
#include "kcl_acpi.h"

after that 3d&co works but dmesg is spammed with this:
[14734.504469] [fglrx:firegl_find_any_map] *ERROR* Invalid map handle!<3>[fglrx:drm_vm_open] *ERROR* map not found -> inconsistent kernel data!!! vma_start:0x7fde13660000,handle:0xfdff0000
[14734.506516] [fglrx:firegl_find_any_map] *ERROR* Invalid map handle!<3>[fglrx:drm_vm_open] *ERROR* map not found -> inconsistent kernel data!!! vma_start:0x7fde12dbf000,handle:0xd11ac000
[14734.510144] [fglrx:firegl_find_any_map] *ERROR* Invalid map handle!<3>[fglrx:drm_vm_close] *ERROR* map not found -> inconsistent kernel data!!! vma_start:0x7fde12dbf000,handle:0xd11ac000
[14735.026129] [fglrx:firegl_find_any_map] *ERROR* Invalid map handle!<3>[fglrx:drm_vm_open] *ERROR* map not found -> inconsistent kernel data!!! vma_start:0x7fddf7d4d000,handle:0xd11f4000
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i92guboj · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:04 pm Post subject:

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