From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P6LXR-0005A1-Nj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:59:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB100E0654; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922D2E0654 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF05280.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.82.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B3884A800E for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:58:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:58:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-tuxonice-r3; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <1286926877.8946.11.camel@laptop.limeyworld> <1287019394.12756.12.camel@laptop.limeyworld> In-Reply-To: <1287019394.12756.12.camel@laptop.limeyworld> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201010141258.47884.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 27d9e455-f7c8-462c-8fce-25099d1d1c4c X-Archives-Hash: 4b797a256a7b56c992acb36ea12fbc0d Jeff Cranmer writes: > Regarding eselect, I used eselect opengl xorg-xll to select the open > source driver instead of ati. I think this is correct? Sounds right. > The kernel options are configured as follows > > Device Drivers -> > Generic Driver Options -> > <*> Userspace firmware loading support > [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary > Graphics support -> > <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) > <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) > -> <*> ATI Radeon > [*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default The help for this last setting tells: This is a completely new driver. It's only part of the existing drm for compatibility reasons. It requires an entirely different graphics stack above it and works very differently from the old drm stack. i.e. don't enable this unless you know what you are doing it may cause issues or bugs compared to the previous userspace driver stack. [...] This code support the following hardware : R1XX,R2XX,R3XX,R4XX,R5XX radeon up to X1950). Works is underway to provide support for R6XX, R7XX and newer hardware (radeon from HD2XXX to HD4XXX). You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. I have the driver compiled as a module, and get these messages in dmesg when loading: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] radeon defaulting to userspace modesetting. fglrx_pci 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 [drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0 [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading RS780 CP Microcode [drm] Resetting GPU [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs [drm] Resetting GPU I suggest compiling as a module, so you can easier check for kernel messages when loading the module, and it allows to try the closed-source ati-drivers. I had a memory problem with them (but did not try the last version), and had to use an older X server, so I gave the open-source drivers a try. They work, with less memory and CPU usage, but I get distortions. I also have to use the older xorg-server 1.7, because with 1.8 X crashed every few minutes. Whoops, I just see that I also have the fglrx module running, this should not happen. Could this be the cause for my graphics distortions? Let's see. Wonko