Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

[Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>]

On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following:

>On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>  
>
>>On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following:
>>    
>>
>>>On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon
>>>>>>Xpress 1100 IGP]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm at a loss.  Can some kind soul please point me in the right
>>>>>>direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop?
>>>>>>Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers?  And if ATI drivers, any idea
>>>>>>what is might be conflicting in my kernel?
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>No conflict in your kernel - the "taint" message means that you have
>>>>>loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry
>>>>>about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre
>>>>>system).
>>>>>
>>>>>Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Thank you for your posts.
>>>>
>>>>OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't
>>>>trying to use the ati-driver.  So I emerged ati-driver.  However, when
>>>>attempting to load the fglrx I get an "Operation not permitted error" (I
>>>>remember this now).  I am logged on as root.   Please see this output:
>>>>
>>>>tagalong ~ # lsmod
>>>>Module                  Size  Used by
>>>>ndiswrapper           190528  0
>>>>arc4                    2368  0
>>>>ecb                     3328  0
>>>>blkcipher               5316  1 ecb
>>>>cryptomgr               2944  0
>>>>crypto_algapi          10432  3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr
>>>>ieee80211_crypt_wep     4864  0
>>>>pcmcia                 32344  0
>>>>yenta_socket           24332  1
>>>>rsrc_nonstatic         10048  1 yenta_socket
>>>>pcmcia_core            34276  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
>>>>ieee80211_crypt         5504  1 ieee80211_crypt_wep
>>>>i2c_piix4               9036  0
>>>>i2c_core               18880  1 i2c_piix4
>>>>tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx
>>>>FATAL: Error inserting fglrx
>>>>(/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>--- enable loadable module suppot
>>>------ module versioning support
>>>or
>>>------ source checksum for all modules
>>>      
>>>
>>I have these options:
>>
>>[*] Enable loadable module support
>>[*]   Module unloading
>>[*]     Forced module unloading
>>[ ]   Module versioning support (NEW)
>>[ ]   Source checksum for all modules (NEW)
>>[*]   Automatic kernel module loading
>>
>>    
>>
>>>If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx
>>>module again...
>>>
>>>What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the
>>>correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the "operation not
>>>permitted" complaint...
>>>      
>>>
>>I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those
>>options.  There was no change.  See this output:
>>
>>tagalong ~ # lsmod
>>Module                  Size  Used by
>>arc4                    2368  2
>>ecb                     3328  2
>>blkcipher               5316  1 ecb
>>cryptomgr               2944  0
>>crypto_algapi          10432  3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr
>>ieee80211_crypt_wep     4864  1
>>ndiswrapper           190528  0
>>pcmcia                 32344  0
>>bcm43xx               423008  0
>>ieee80211softmac       29248  1 bcm43xx
>>ieee80211              29448  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
>>ieee80211_crypt         5504  2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
>>yenta_socket           24332  1
>>rsrc_nonstatic         10048  1 yenta_socket
>>pcmcia_core            34276  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
>>i2c_piix4               9036  0
>>i2c_core               18880  1 i2c_piix4
>>tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx
>>FATAL: Error inserting fglrx
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted
>>
>>Any other ideas?  Thanks for your help.
>>
>>Drew
>>
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>
>The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that 
>driver...
>

That may be true.  I have been unable to confirm or deny that.  Anyone else?

Thanks,

Drew

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