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

[Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>]

On 7/3/2007 7:01 PM Drew Tomlinson said the following:

> 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? 


I've done some more Googling.  It would appear the Radeon Xpress 1100 is 
supported with ATI drivers.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_14603_14624%5E14627,00.html

Now, how to get the fglrx module to load?...

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