RS690 with the -ati driver, interesting xorg.log ?

[JoJo jojo]

Hi everyone
I tried the -ati driver on RS690,
(ubuntu packages from: https://launchpad.net/%7Etormodvolden/+archive)

1) changes more modes to show gnome login screen than radeonhd
2) dri crashed(due to not using latest mesa & dri), but it crashed the
X server as well
3) glxgears ~650, entirely using the CPU alone
4) was unable to change resolution via gui (GNOME) ?

can anyone find anything interesting in the logs(logverbose 7) ?

-JoJo

PS: xorg.log is uploaded to pastebin

---------------- Xorg.log --------------------
also uploaded to
http://pastebin.com/f2cec15a1
---------------- Xorg.log --------------------

[JoJo jojo]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Michel Dänzer
<mic...@tungstengraphics.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 14:20 +0530, JoJo jojo wrote:
> >
> > PS: xorg.log is uploaded to pastebin
> >
> > ---------------- Xorg.log --------------------
> > also uploaded to
> > http://pastebin.com/f2cec15a1
>

> Please don't do that but send it as an attachment - I suspect the
> mailing list archives will be more persistent than the pastebin.
>
>
> --
> Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com
> Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
>
>

Hi Michel

I did ;-), earlier
but mailing list message size limit (40KB) was reached (~150KB) :-<
and message awaiting moderator approval bounce message.

so removed the entire long xorg.log & put a link instead.
(since I am not pointing a specific line in the log, I cant cut it short)

-JoJo

[JoJo jojo]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Alex Deucher <alexd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:50 AM, JoJo jojo <onetw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> > I tried the -ati driver on RS690,
> > (ubuntu packages from: https://launchpad.net/%7Etormodvolden/+archive)
> >
> > 1) changes more modes to show gnome login screen than radeonhd
> > 2) dri crashed(due to not using latest mesa & dri), but it crashed the
> > X server as well
> > 3) glxgears ~650, entirely using the CPU alone
> > 4) was unable to change resolution via gui (GNOME) ?
>

> DRI support isn't quite stable yet. You might try forcing the size of
> the framebuffer in the bios if you have the option. on some cards if
> you force it to a size, like 128 MB, rather than setting it to "auto,"
> it works better. Your best bet for changing modes is the xrandr
> utility. Some of the gui utilities are not randr 1.2 aware and the
> 1.0 compat stuff doesn't always work well.
>
> Alex
>

Hi Alex

Well, we still want to test & report the DRI status to you guys anyways.
The framebuffer in bios ?, if that means RAM allocated to IGP(GART size?),
it was explicitly set to 256 MB for the above logs.
And the delay before showing gdm login screen is due to -ati trying
various settings?
but radeonHD takes less time to come up.

OK so resolution change gui is not -ati driver's fault, gnome has to fix it.
(we will use xrandr or xorg.conf in the meanwhile for testing)

the package builders face no problems with building modular drivers(very good),
but are at a loss with mesa & DRI/DRM, hopefully you will help advice/address
the situation when you have some freetime.

there is some inconsistency in naming -ati (drivers) & radeon (in bugzilla)
(will that change?). Also some inconsistency in x.org git (via gitweb) which
i reported on X.org ML. Which page should we refer to in x.org wiki
for -ati drivers?

ciao

-JoJo

[Canatella]

Hello,


Just to mention that I've recompiled libdrm, mesa and the xorg ati
radeon driver. DRI worked and XVideo too.

Regards,

Damien

[Kenneth Dixon]

Well done, how does video look via xv?

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[Canatella]

On Feb 29, 11:27 pm, Kenneth Dixon <ken.di...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Well done, how does video look via xv?

Alas, video is jerky, not looking good.
Still need to wait for updates...

Damien

[Kenneth Dixon]

Ah, not so good, very promising start though.

Thanks

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>

[djdoo]

OK man we need exact details!!

What's your distro, bit? , and exactly what you did with details step
by step!

Please give us this info it's very important!

[djdoo]

Also what's the output of this:

dmesg | grep drm

[Canatella]

I'm on ubuntu hardy, and giving this by memory.

I cloned git repertories for mesa, drm and xserver-org-driver-ati.
Then I fetched the sources of the current hardy debs.
I copied each debian subdirectory to the mesa/drm/ati git directories.
I needed to fiddle around with the debian patches in patches/debian so
that the various patches would apply (mostly in mesa where some are
needed to build the various debs for mesa). Also you need to copy the
configs repository from the debian mesa source to the mesa directory.
Then debuild -r fakeroot in mesa, dpkg -i generated debs, sames with
drm and ati. I also needed to copy the libdrm/linux-core driver for
radeon by hand to my /lib/modules/kernel-*/ directory so they could be
found by modprobe. Then

rmmod radeon
rmmod drm
modprobe radeon

Ensure that /dev/dri/card0 exists. Restart x and voila (well it took
me some times for that). Also note that sometimes I need to run
glxgears to make xvideo work.

I'm not able to use that computer now but I will give more info later.

[djdoo]

Thanks a lot for your help my friend!

Yes now it works! I hadn't changed the drm modules! So I replaced the
old modules with the new ones!

For openSUSE 10.3 if you update Xorg's, Mesa and libdrm packages from
the X11:Xorg repository you just need git drm only to compile the
modules from there! Mesa 7 and Ati 6.8.0 is included in the packages
as well as libdrm 2.3.

One more question... Does your glxinfo sais Direct Rendering: No??
Cause Xorg.0.log sais DRI enabled and does all the required
procedure, /dev/dri/card0 exists and Textured Video works!

I get diagonial tearing with Textured Video guys! Quality is very good
indeed but with the same problem fglrx has with opengl video!! How can
it be??

Also EXA works well in general terms, but I don't get AIGLX
accelerated...only soft mode.

[Maciej Cencora]

djdoo pisze:

> Thanks a lot for your help my friend!
>
> Yes now it works! I hadn't changed the drm modules! So I replaced the
> old modules with the new ones!
>
> For openSUSE 10.3 if you update Xorg's, Mesa and libdrm packages from
> the X11:Xorg repository you just need git drm only to compile the
> modules from there! Mesa 7 and Ati 6.8.0 is included in the packages
> as well as libdrm 2.3.
>
> One more question... Does your glxinfo sais Direct Rendering: No??
> Cause Xorg.0.log sais DRI enabled and does all the required
> procedure, /dev/dri/card0 exists and Textured Video works!
>

glxinfo shows Direct Rendering: Yes.
run LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo to see why direct rendering is disabled.

> I get diagonial tearing with Textured Video guys! Quality is very good
> indeed but with the same problem fglrx has with opengl video!! How can
> it be??
>

I don't know.

> Also EXA works well in general terms, but I don't get AIGLX
> accelerated...only soft mode.
>

I don't get AIGLX either. There are some undefinied symbol problems I
wasn't able to fix.

Regards,
Maciej Cencora

[djdoo]

Well I found out how could it be possible to have Textured Video and
3D with DRI at Xorg.0.log and no DRI at glxinfo.

Fglrx is not completely uninstalled if you give /usr/share/ati/fglrx-
uninstall.sh!!

It leaves behind its libGL.so and libglut.so.
I figured out this when checked what git Mesa builds... It builds
libGL.so.1.2 and under /usr/lib64 I had this file as well as another
libGL named libGL.so.1.5.070100!! Also 2 versions of libglut there
too.

So guys I think that completely by luck I created a monster! I managed
to merge the closed source with the open source driver!!

Wow I am so proud of myself! I managed to do what ATi couldn't all
those years! ^_^ lol!

I cannot use the OSS driver pure cause if I install the correct libGL
everything is recognized correctly but glxinfo sais: Error
No rgb path found. So no 3D again.

[JoJo jojo]

Hi Jim

He...He please forward your findings to radeon mailinglists.
(remember to file bug report for fglrx uninstall)

-JoJo

[djdoo]

I will investigate this more...

For now I installed fglrx again, but this week I will see very
carefully inside this thing!