[gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

[gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

[Marco Calviani]

Hi list,
   i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now
(x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards.

In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a
card and xorg (6.8.2)?

Best regards,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

[Mark Knecht]

On 12/28/05, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now
> (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards.
>
> In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a
> card and xorg (6.8.2)?
>
> Best regards,
> MC

Hi,
   I cannot answer your question but would like to ask whoever can to
include what they know about AGP vs. PCI-Express cards in this
respect.

Thanks,
Mark

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[gentoo-user] Re: x11-drm and r300-r350

[Marco Calviani]

2005/12/28, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com>:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now
> (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards.
>
> In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a
> card and xorg (6.8.2)?
>
> Best regards,
> MC
>

As of now i'm using the ati driver. Here's my xorg.conf for the Device section:

        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

recognized with the "radeon" card.

Regards,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

[Richard Fish]

On 12/28/05, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now
> (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards.

I tried to get the r300 driver working on my system a few weeks ago. 
Unfortunately my PCIe Mobility X600 is not supported yet, so I never
got anything working.  You need a 2.6.15 kernel, modular X.org 7, and
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati.

As for the list of cards supported:

1. Run "lspci" to identify the slot of your adapter:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Tech...

2. Run "lspci -n -s <slot>" to get the vendor and card ID:

carcharias rjf # lspci -n -s 03:00.0
03:00.0 0300: 1002:3150

>From the above, the vendor ID is 0x1002, and the card ID is 0x3150.

3. In the kernel sources, look at drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h to see
if the vendor and card ID appears in the table.  If it does, your card
is "supported", and might actually work.  An example line from this
table is:

        {0x1002, 0x4E47, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_R300}, \

The first two numbers are the vendor and card IDs.

> In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a
> card and xorg (6.8.2)?

For open source, you should use the radeon driver:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "X600"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RV350 [Mobility Radeon X600]"
EndSection

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Richard,
     first of all for your reply.

> 1. Run "lspci" to identify the slot of your adapter:
>
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Tech...
>
> 2. Run "lspci -n -s <slot>" to get the vendor and card ID:
>
> carcharias rjf # lspci -n -s 03:00.0
> 03:00.0 0300: 1002:3150
>
> From the above, the vendor ID is 0x1002, and the card ID is 0x3150.
>
> 3. In the kernel sources, look at drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h to see
> if the vendor and card ID appears in the table.  If it does, your card
> is "supported", and might actually work.  An example line from this
> table is:
>
>         {0x1002, 0x4E47, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_R300}, \
>
> The first two numbers are the vendor and card IDs.
>

Ok my card id is 4e50. I've search for it in the drm_pciids.h file and
i didn't found the appropriate card. Indeed i've found the 4E50 card
which is, as the one i have, a rv350 radeon card. However that
different capital letter is making me think that something is
different over there...

But another question come up on my mind: should we use instead of the
in-kernel drm support the one given by the x11-drm package?

Best regards,
MC

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