[gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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Hi All,

Just emerged x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 (I was previously using 
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3 and noticed this in my Xorg.0.log:
==========================================
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c59)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x0000000048000000
(II) RADEON(0): AGP card detected
(II) RADEON(0): Legacy BIOS detected
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.
==========================================

I looked in the log because my desktop font suddenly grew in size 
significantly (I am guessing that it grew from 12PS to 14-16PS).  Any idea if 
there's anything I can do other than reverting to previous package?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Andrew Tchernoivanov]

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>drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
>drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
>drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
>drmOpenDevice: Open failed
>[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"

According to this there are no module named radeon in /lib/modules/<kernel
version>/kernel/drivers/video
Maybe new package renamed module? Try find it and load manually using
modprobe.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just emerged x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 (I was previously using
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3 and noticed this in my Xorg.0.log:
> ==========================================
> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP)" (ChipID =
> 0x4c59)
> (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x0000000048000000
> (II) RADEON(0): AGP card detected
> (II) RADEON(0): Legacy BIOS detected
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
> [dri] Disabling DRI.
> ==========================================
>
> I looked in the log because my desktop font suddenly grew in size
> significantly (I am guessing that it grew from 12PS to 14-16PS).  Any idea
> if
> there's anything I can do other than reverting to previous package?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> >drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> >[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
>
> According to this there are no module named radeon in /lib/modules/<kernel
> version>/kernel/drivers/video
> Maybe new package renamed module? Try find it and load manually using
> modprobe.

Well, it's not there . . .

all I have is:

# ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/*         
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4291 May 14 
18:34 /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/output.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/backlight:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   72 May 14 18:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  112 May 14 18:34 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5610 May 14 18:34 lcd.ko
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> >drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> >[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
>
> According to this there are no module named radeon in /lib/modules/<kernel
> version>/kernel/drivers/video
> Maybe new package renamed module? Try find it and load manually using
> modprobe.

I think you're right.  Not only I did not find a radeon module under kernel 
modules, but I noticed that the package actually installed this instead:

/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so

modprobing either module fails . . .

What now?  I am not sure if this is bug.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Andrew Tchernoivanov]

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>modprobing either module fails . . .

What is the error message?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> > >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> > >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> > >drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > >[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> >
> > According to this there are no module named radeon in
> /lib/modules/<kernel
> > version>/kernel/drivers/video
> > Maybe new package renamed module? Try find it and load manually using
> > modprobe.
>
> I think you're right.  Not only I did not find a radeon module under kernel
> modules, but I noticed that the package actually installed this instead:
>
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
>
> modprobing either module fails . . .
>
> What now?  I am not sure if this is bug.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> >modprobing either module fails . . .
>
> What is the error message?

# modprobe -v radeon_drv
FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found.

# modprobe -v radeon
FATAL: Module radeon not found.

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Andrew Tchernoivanov]

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># modprobe -v radeon_drv
>FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found.

That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/<kernel
version>/kernel/drivers/video
Because according to modprobe's man page, by default it will look driver in
/lib/modules/...
So try to copy it and write here, what will modprobe say


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> > >modprobing either module fails . . .
> >
> > What is the error message?
>
> # modprobe -v radeon_drv
> FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found.
>
> # modprobe -v radeon
> FATAL: Module radeon not found.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> ># modprobe -v radeon_drv
> >FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found.
>
> That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/<kernel
> version>/kernel/drivers/video
> Because according to modprobe's man page, by default it will look driver in
> /lib/modules/...
> So try to copy it and write here, what will modprobe say

First I linked it:

# ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  144 Jul 17 22:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  344 May 14 18:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   72 May 14 18:34 backlight
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   43 Jul 17 22:21 
radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so

but since that did not work, I copied it:

# ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
total 448
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    176 Jul 17 22:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root    344 May 14 18:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     72 May 14 18:34 backlight
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     43 Jul 17 22:21 
radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 448808 Jul 17 07:09 radeon_drv.so

Modprobing either of the two fails with the same error message.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Andreas Niederl]

Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
>>> # modprobe -v radeon_drv
>>> FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found.
>> That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/<kernel
>> version>/kernel/drivers/video
>> Because according to modprobe's man page, by default it will look driver in
>> /lib/modules/...
>> So try to copy it and write here, what will modprobe say
> 
> First I linked it:
> 
> # ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  144 Jul 17 22:21 .
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  344 May 14 18:34 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   72 May 14 18:34 backlight
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   43 Jul 17 22:21 
> radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> 
> but since that did not work, I copied it:
> 
> # ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
> total 448
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    176 Jul 17 22:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root    344 May 14 18:34 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     72 May 14 18:34 backlight
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     43 Jul 17 22:21 
> radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 448808 Jul 17 07:09 radeon_drv.so
> 
> Modprobing either of the two fails with the same error message.

That's because this is not a kernel module.

> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
> [dri] Disabling DRI.

I'm just guessing here, but maybe your kernel is missing DRM support for
your graphics chip.

What's the output of grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r) ?


Regards,
Andi

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Alexander Meinke]

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Hi,

I think this problem is not *-ati (driver) related. Since the module needed for 
drm has the same name as the driver has, but resides in another directory.

I would suggest you to check whether x11-base/x11-drm or to the kernel module is 
build for drm.
Since I am using the package mentioned above, there is a .ko called 
"/lib/modules/<version>/x11-drm/radeon.ko". The kernel module for ati drm 
resides in "/lib/modules/<version>/kernel/drivers/char/radeon.ko".
Hope this helps.

Regards,

acm.


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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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On Friday 18 July 2008, Andreas Niederl wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> >>> # modprobe -v radeon_drv
> >>> FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found.
> >>
> >> That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from
> >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/<kernel
> >> version>/kernel/drivers/video
> >> Because according to modprobe's man page, by default it will look driver
> >> in /lib/modules/...
> >> So try to copy it and write here, what will modprobe say
> >
> > First I linked it:
> >
> > # ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
> > total 8
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  144 Jul 17 22:21 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  344 May 14 18:34 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   72 May 14 18:34 backlight
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   43 Jul 17 22:21
> > radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> >
> > but since that did not work, I copied it:
> >
> > # ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r8/kernel/drivers/video/
> > total 448
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    176 Jul 17 22:27 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root    344 May 14 18:34 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     72 May 14 18:34 backlight
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   4291 May 14 18:34 output.ko
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     43 Jul 17 22:21
> > radeon.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 448808 Jul 17 07:09 radeon_drv.so
> >
> > Modprobing either of the two fails with the same error message.
>
> That's because this is not a kernel module.
>
> > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
> > [dri] Disabling DRI.
>
> I'm just guessing here, but maybe your kernel is missing DRM support for
> your graphics chip.
>
> What's the output of grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r) ?

# grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r)
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Andreas Niederl]

Mick wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2008, Andreas Niederl wrote:
[...]
>> I'm just guessing here, but maybe your kernel is missing DRM support for
>> your graphics chip.
>>
>> What's the output of grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r) ?
> 
> # grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r)
> CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y
> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set
> 

CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON are needed for direct rendering. The 
respective options are found in Device Drivers -> Character Devices.


Regards,
Andi
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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Andreas Niederl]

Andreas Niederl wrote:
> Mick wrote:
[...]
>> # grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r)
>> CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
>> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
>> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y
>> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set
>>
> 
> CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON are needed for direct rendering. The 
> respective options are found in Device Drivers -> Character Devices.

Actually, they moved to Device Drivers -> Graphics Support -> Direct 
Rendering Manager in recent kernels.


Regards,
Andi
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Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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On Friday 18 July 2008, Andreas Niederl wrote:
> Andreas Niederl wrote:
> > Mick wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> # grep -i radeon /boot/config-$(uname -r)
> >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
> >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
> >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y
> >> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set
> >
> > CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON are needed for direct rendering. The
> > respective options are found in Device Drivers -> Character Devices.
>
> Actually, they moved to Device Drivers -> Graphics Support -> Direct
> Rendering Manager in recent kernels.

Guys, I've checked all my kernel config files on this box:
# grep -i DRM /boot/config-2.6.2*
/boot/config-2.6.20-gentoo-r8:# CONFIG_DRM is not set
/boot/config-2.6.23-gentoo-r9:# CONFIG_DRM is not set
/boot/config-2.6.24-gentoo-r4:# CONFIG_DRM is not set
/boot/config-2.6.24-gentoo-r7:# CONFIG_DRM is not set
/boot/config-2.6.24-gentoo-r8:# CONFIG_DRM is not set

However, there is a nice fat drm and radeon modules in my previous kernels, 
virtue of the fact that I installed xf86-video-ati:

# ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r7/x11-drm/
total 265
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    104 May  6 20:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root    560 May  7 20:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141895 May  6 20:03 drm.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123260 May  6 20:03 radeon.ko

For some reason on the 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 kernel the xf86-video-ati fails to 
install any modules, hence this message.  I haven't configured this box for 
ages so I may be misunderstanding something here.  Do I have to switch to the 
kernel drivers?
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Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Mick wrote:
> [...]
> For some reason on the 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 kernel the xf86-video-ati fails to 
> install any modules, hence this message.  I haven't configured this box for 
> ages so I may be misunderstanding something here.  Do I have to switch to the 
> kernel drivers?

You need to compile a kernel with DRM + ATI Radeon support.  If you're 
not running this kernel in more than one machine, you can compile it in 
the kernel; no reason to make it a module.  If you intent to also try 
the proprietary driver, then you need to make it a module (because this 
driver provides its own DRM module.)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

[Mick]

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On Friday 18 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > [...]
> > For some reason on the 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 kernel the xf86-video-ati fails
> > to install any modules, hence this message.  I haven't configured this
> > box for ages so I may be misunderstanding something here.  Do I have to
> > switch to the kernel drivers?
>
> You need to compile a kernel with DRM + ATI Radeon support.  If you're
> not running this kernel in more than one machine, you can compile it in
> the kernel; no reason to make it a module.  If you intent to also try
> the proprietary driver, then you need to make it a module (because this
> driver provides its own DRM module.)

Right, found it - for some reason I had not emerged x11-base/x11-drm, which 
places the radeon.ko under /lib/modules/<kernel_name>/x11-drm/

module-rebuild would pick this up of course, but I suspect I hadn't run it 
after I compiled a kernel last time.

Better make a note of this for the future!

Thank you all for your help.  :)
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Mick

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