[gentoo-user] ATI frustration

[gentoo-user] ATI frustration

[James]

Hello,

I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI 1900
video card:
TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary

I first setup the radeon driver and it crawled with bzflag (the 3D software I 
test with).

So I've been trying to get the ati-drivers to work. This web page seems to
indicate it should work and provide 3D accelerataton on linux:

https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.26.18.html#181179

I've been trying various version of x11-drm libdrm and ati-drivers.
Somehow I've gotten the drivers so hosed that starx does makes the screen
go black and I have to ssh in just to reboot. Killing off processes 
does not seem to be effective at regaining control of the screen.

Here the latest error I get,  revdep-rebuild does not help:

make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r4'
 * DRM module not built
 Source compiled.
 Test phase [not enabled]: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1

 Install ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 into
/var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1/image/ category x11-drivers
 * Installing fglrx module
install: cannot stat `fglrx.ko': No such file or directory

!!! ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1546:   Called dyn_install
  ebuild.sh, line 1020:   Called src_install
  ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1.ebuild, line 205:   Called linux-mod_src_install
  linux-mod.eclass, line 540:   Called die

11-base/x11-drm
 Installed:           20060608

 x11-drivers/ati-drivers
Installed:           8.30.3-r1

The above crash_log is when trying to downgrade to the ati-drivers
from 8.30.3-r1 to 8.27.10-r1.

Any ideas?

Assume nothing as the last few days has been an exercise if futility
for me....


James









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Re: [gentoo-user] ATI frustration

[fire-eyes]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:38, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI
> 1900 video card:
> TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary
>
> I first setup the radeon driver and it crawled with bzflag (the 3D software
> I test with).
>
> So I've been trying to get the ati-drivers to work. This web page seems to
> indicate it should work and provide 3D accelerataton on linux:
>
> https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.26.18.html#181179
>
> I've been trying various version of x11-drm libdrm and ati-drivers.
> Somehow I've gotten the drivers so hosed that starx does makes the screen
> go black and I have to ssh in just to reboot. Killing off processes
> does not seem to be effective at regaining control of the screen.
>
> Here the latest error I get,  revdep-rebuild does not help:
>
> make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r4'
>  * DRM module not built
>  Source compiled.
>  Test phase [not enabled]: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1
>
>  Install ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 into
> /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1/image/ category x11-drivers
>  * Installing fglrx module
> install: cannot stat `fglrx.ko': No such file or directory
>
> !!! ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 failed.
> Call stack:
>   ebuild.sh, line 1546:   Called dyn_install
>   ebuild.sh, line 1020:   Called src_install
>   ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1.ebuild, line 205:   Called linux-mod_src_install
>   linux-mod.eclass, line 540:   Called die
>
> 11-base/x11-drm
>  Installed:           20060608
>
>  x11-drivers/ati-drivers
> Installed:           8.30.3-r1
>
> The above crash_log is when trying to downgrade to the ati-drivers
> from 8.30.3-r1 to 8.27.10-r1.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Assume nothing as the last few days has been an exercise if futility
> for me....
>
>
> James

Yep. This is a known problem and there have been bugs open on it for a while. 
Not sure why it isn't fixed yet, my uneducated guess is upstream. Upstream in 
this case is very poor at the linux side of their software...

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156876

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[gentoo-user] Re: ATI frustration

[James]

fire-eyes <sgtphou <at> fire-eyes.org> writes:



> > I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI
> > 1900 video card:
> > TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary

> Yep. This is a known problem and there have been bugs open on it for a while. 
> Not sure why it isn't fixed yet, my uneducated guess is upstream. Upstream in 
> this case is very poor at the linux side of their software...

Hello fire-eyes,
 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156876


OK, but, I had it working (ati-drivers) but had no graphics
acceleration. So I got greedy and tried new things.  Since
then I cannot seem to recover those steps to the point
where the ati-drivers worked but no acceleration. This is bad
and most of the docs are old.

If I wanted to go back to the radeon driver it was blurred
and the fonts, unfocused. bzflag would run very slowly.


I wish I could just recover to the ati-drivers that work
without 3D....

I also ran across a wiki about how ati-drivers 8.24.8 was the last
ati-drivers binary that the 3D actually worked. There was a detailed
set of instructions for installing ati-drivers-8.24.8 as an
overlay, but, I cannot find that link now.

I did find this site:

http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#1_diaginfo


Thanks for the bug_tip.

James


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