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Alexey Andriyanov 08-08-2005 12:33 PM

ATI fglrx driver trouble
 
Hi everybody.
I have VIA KT880 chipset and ATI Radeon 9600XT graphics card.
I use Debian Sarge 3.0 with self-builded kernel 2.6.12.3, Xfree86 4.3.0.1 and ATI fglrx driver 8.14.13-2. (Kernel and fglrx module were built with gcc 3.3.4).

My problem is that I cant turn on direct rendering (fglrxinfo says «MESA GLX indirect»)

This part of Xfree86.0.log describes my problem:

Code:

(II)fglrx(0): driver needs XFree86 4.3.x
(II) fglrx(0): detected XFree86 4.3.0
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 5, (OK)
drmGetBusid returned ''
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "fglrx" driver
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xf88a3000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xf88a3000 to 0xb7cf0000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xa0000000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0):    Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0):    Version: 8.14.13
(II) fglrx(0):    Date: Jun  8 2005
(II) fglrx(0):    Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information:
(II) fglrx(0):    Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE:        2.6.12.3.050806
(II) fglrx(0):    Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS:        no
(II) fglrx(0):    Build-Kernel __SMP__:            no
(II) fglrx(0):    Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE:          0x1000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0xfe200000
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENODEV"
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf88a3000 at 0xb7cf0000
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)            *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

It was said in ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes that «version 2.6 kernels require a second kernel module in addition to agpgart, which should be named similar to the manufacturer of your motherboard AGP chipset. This error message should occur if the other agp module is not loaded».
But «lsmod | grep agp\|fglrx» output looks like this:
Code:

via_agp                9792  1
agpgart                35912  2 fglrx,via_agp
fglrx                245884  0

Also, during startup klogd writes:
Code:

Aug  8 10:58:01 localhost kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
Aug  8 10:58:01 localhost kernel: agpgart: Detected VIA KT880 chipset
Aug  8 10:58:01 localhost kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
----------------- skipped----------------------
Aug  8 20:40:06 localhost kernel: fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
Aug  8 20:40:06 localhost kernel: [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 928 MBytes.
Aug  8 20:40:06 localhost kernel: [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.14.13 [Jun  8 2005] on minor 0

When I type 'startx' the X starts with no DRI support and klogd writes the following:
Code:

Aug  8 20:46:22 localhost kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
Aug  8 20:46:22 localhost kernel: agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 0269), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
Aug  8 20:46:22 localhost kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found.
Aug  8 20:46:22 localhost kernel: [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 3770 using kernel context 0

Also, I cant start X server again after its shutdown. After secondary `startx` blank screen appears, Xfree86.0.log interrupts on the line «(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0xfe200000» (see below, exactly before, «unable to acquire AGP»), and after pressing ACPI power button klogd reports «allocation failed» (I'm not sure, maybe this message appears any time power button pressed).
Please help me.
PS: I'm a novice with Linux, so excuse for any mistakes. And for my bad English.
PPS: Here are extracts from my fstab (for tmpfs), XF86Confiig-4 and .kernel's .config:
fstab:
Code:

tmpfs                /dev/shm        tmpfs        defaults        0        0
XF86Confiig-4:
Code:

Section "Module"
        Load        "GLcore"
        Load        "bitmap"
        Load        "dbe"
        Load        "ddc"
        Load        "dri"
        Load        "extmod"
        Load        "freetype"
        Load        "glx"
       
        #by Alan
        SubSection "extmod"
          Option "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection
       
        Load        "int10"
        Load        "record"
        Load        "speedo"
        Load        "type1"
        Load        "vbe"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        #by Alan
        Identifier        "ATI"
        Driver                "fglrx"
        Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
        Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"

        BusID                "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier        "Default Screen"
        Device                "ATI"
#........ skipped........
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode        0666
EndSection

.config:
Code:

CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
# CONFIG_FB is not set

PPPS: I forgot one more thing - changing the "UseIntrnalAGPGART" parameter has absoulutely no effect.

cdhgee 08-10-2005 04:42 AM

FWIW, I found the fglrx drivers to be completely useless. I run Fedora, and the "radeon" driver that comes with it gave me a 550ish fps rate on glxgears. Hoping I could improve that, I downloaded fglrx from ATI, installed it, and the framerate dropped to less than 100fps -- needless to say, I went back to the radeon driver and dumped fglrx.

C4B4L 08-10-2005 05:14 AM

AFAIK the drivers aren't working on a kernel higher than 2.6.11.xx

I am runnning with the 2.6.11.11 and i get 4000fps with my radeon 9700pro

thegoalie 08-10-2005 11:50 AM

go to this link i put a howto build a custom ati kernel in here


howto

Alexey Andriyanov 08-17-2005 01:35 AM

Latest news - I booted up my Debian on the another computer with VIA KT400 chipset and ATI RADEON 9600 Pro. fglrx driver worked fine at once. So, I think even kernel 2.6.12 does not working fine with VIA KT880 AGP. Has somebody have the same chipset?


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