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h2sammo
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 Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject: 2.6.29 and ATI drivers |
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| i am thinking of updating but am worried about compatibility with my radeon X1950 card. any of you had expereince with 2.6.29 and ati drivers and how do they fare? |
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ShinyDoofy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:32 am Post subject: |
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I was going to create a thread about the problems I've had with this, so here goes:
last night I updated my kernel from 2.6.28.4 to 2.6.29.1 (both vanilla) and changed my root fs to ext4. Booting went fine, but X won't seem to start anymore. Naturally, I recompiled ati-drivers with the correct symlink (for .29.1) only to find it not working as well. Turns out the drivers won't compile with 2.6.29. So I tried both fixes from bug #264021, both have the same result: black screen and dead keyboard. SSH from another machine and Alt+SysRq+REISUB still work great, but that's about it. As I figured that .28.4 works with ext4 as well, I quickly changed the symlink back and recompiled ati-drivers once more. Booted up .28.4 and I still get the same symptoms although everything else worked perfectly fine with this kernel prior to booting . I have PAT on for .28.4 and off for 29.1 (see the bug).
My system:
Dell Studio 15
2.6.28.4 (again)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
Xorg.0.log
Anything that could help is highly appreciated! |
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scary
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Same problem here with gentoo-sources-2.6.29(-r1), with ati-drivers ebuilds both from bugzilla and from gentoo-quebec overlay, toshiba laptop with mobility hd 3470, with and without PAT: X would not start (black screen + dead keyboard), always leading to awful kernel messages (aside from the warnings pretty much everyone is having due the quick and dirty acpi patches involved).
In my case though eselecting back to 2.6.28-r3 + emerge -C ati-drivers + emerge ati-drivers (regular ~amd64 from portage) brought me back to an usable system. Did you etc-update whatever had to be etc-updated ? |
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ShinyDoofy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Just played back the tarball that I made for changing my root fs and it finally starts X again. I have no clue what caused this strange behavior or how to fix it if it ever pops up again. Guess I'll just tar my root fs before I touch ati-drivers again (or update my kernel) and hope for the best. |
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| you mean X works in 2.6.28 again? or you got it to work in 2.6.29? |
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ShinyDoofy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Nope, in 2.6.28.4. Guess I'll just wait until that bug is closed and/or a new ebuild is out. |
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scary
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| fglrx 9.4 should be out in a week or so... cross your fingers for .29 support :) |
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| keep us posted |
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Hibbelharry
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@H2Sammo: You won't have any luck with Catalyst 9.4 since 9.3 was the last one to support your X1950 Card. Only Radeon HD 2000+ Series are supported since 9.4. You will either have to stay with 2.6.28 and Xorg 1.5 or you will need to migrate to open source ati driver which works mostly well nowadays.
Greetz
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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i have been using fglrx (which i think is the open source driver). that should work for 2.6.29 right?
is the kernel ok with ATI drivers now? |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| h2sammo wrote: | | i have been using fglrx (which i think is the open source driver) |
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kornhs4
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ShinyDoofy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| This has already been mentioned as a fix in bug 264021. As said, it doesn't work for me. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| h2sammo wrote: | | i have been using fglrx (which i think is the open source driver) |
driver "fglrx" belongs to x11-drivers/ati-drivers, the closed source driver
driver "radeon" belongs to x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati, the open source driver |
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DaggyStyle
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| psutokth wrote: | | h2sammo wrote: | | i have been using fglrx (which i think is the open source driver) |
driver "fglrx" belongs to x11-drivers/ati-drivers, the closed source driver
driver "radeon" belongs to x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati, the open source driver |
driver "radeonhd" belongs to x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd, another open source driver
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| thx for being more helpful than the l33t mage yonder... |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| h2sammo wrote: | | thx for being more helpful than the l33t mage yonder... |
Well, I'm not particularly fond of you either. |
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| any news on this front? |
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ShinyDoofy
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, 9.4 was released some days ago and still doesn't compile against kernel 2.6.29. I'm unwilling to try the hacks for it as I don't see myself pumping my root filesystem over the network again just for it to screw my system once more. |
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TripleM666
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http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16173&p=68038
this patch works, and there is no special magic about it. it includes 3 files, which originate from the 2.6.29 kernel, where some stuff is declared, and the atidrivers cant find otherwise now, and the necessary includes and code adaptions.
with these the driver compiles fine (as far as no more errors) and works (9.3 , i didnt tried 9.4). although the usual finetuning of the system is needed (sysrq and obsolete symbols in kernel).
so long, |
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kornhs4
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| TripleM666 wrote: | | this patch works, and there is no special magic about it. |
Thanks! Actually, its not the first patch in the forum. Some poster referred to this patch a bit later: http://liquorix.net/patches/FGLRX-2.6.29-9.2-5.diff
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andretti
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I have a X1900 card and installed 2.6.29.1 kernel recently with radeonhd 1.2.4, no problem so far... except very very occasionally it crashes on starting or exiting X. I think I'll try radeonhd 1.2.5 once it's available in portage...
Actually I'm very impressed by the open source radeonhd driver. |
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| anyone got it to work with the ati driver? |
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DaggyStyle
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| h2sammo wrote: | | anyone got it to work with the ati driver? |
there is a ebuild in bugs.gentoo.org but it dishes out alot of errors to dmesg.
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ShinyDoofy
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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I did some more testing and it turned out that /etc/ati/amdpcsdb is a really critical file to have. When I delete it and start X, my screen dies and I can only REISUB (or log in via ssh and see what's going wrong). When I copy the old file back I had some time ago, everything works well (for kernel 2.6.28.4 and Catalyst 9.4).
Anyway, Catalyst 9.5 running for me for now with kernel 2.6.29.4 with this patch (although it's spamming dmesg with error messages).
/Also, for whatever reason, amdcccle doesn't segfault anymore when starting it. |
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