ATI RADEON 7500 for a laptop

Devilish · 02-16-2004, 02:18 PM

Yes It is N3WB again, so I am trying to get my ATI Radeon 7500 to work in CRUX, I need my 3d aceleration...I do not even konw where to start, any help would be appreciated

finegan · 02-16-2004, 06:04 PM

It should be a matter of just seeing if agpgart and radeon are loaded under /sbin/lsmod and then if there's a DRI section in your XF86Config file:

Code:

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

And if "dri" is listed to load in the XF file too. To see if its working:

glxinfo

Cheers,

Finegan

Devilish · 02-17-2004, 11:03 PM

Code:

bash-2.05b# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
iptable_mangle          2168   0  (unused)
iptable_filter          1740   1
ipt_unclean             7000   0  (unused)
ipt_ttl                  568   0  (unused)
ipt_tos                  472   0  (unused)
ipt_tcpmss               760   0  (unused)
ipt_state                568   0  (unused)
ipt_recent              7940   0  (unused)
ipt_pkttype              472   0  (unused)
ipt_owner               1400   0  (unused)
ipt_multiport            664   0  (unused)
ipt_mark                 472   0  (unused)
ipt_mac                  632   0  (unused)
ipt_limit                888   0  (unused)
ipt_length               504   0  (unused)
ipt_helper               760   0  (unused)
ipt_esp                  632   0  (unused)
ipt_ecn                  856   0  (unused)
ipt_dscp                 504   0  (unused)
ipt_conntrack           1112   0  (unused)
ipt_ah                   600   0  (unused)
ipt_ULOG                3592   0  (unused)
ipt_TOS                 1016   0  (unused)
ipt_TCPMSS              2392   0  (unused)
ipt_REJECT              3480   0  (unused)
ipt_REDIRECT             792   0  (unused)
ipt_MIRROR              1272   0  (unused)
ipt_MASQUERADE          1432   0  (unused)
ipt_MARK                 760   0  (unused)
ipt_LOG                 3448   0  (unused)
ipt_ECN                 1784   0  (unused)
ipt_DSCP                1048   0  (unused)
ip_nat_irc              2224   0  (unused)
ip_nat_ftp              2896   0  (unused)
iptable_nat            16270   2  [ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp]
ip_tables              12672  35  [iptable_mangle iptable_filter ipt_unclean ipt_ttl ipt_tos ipt_tcpmss ipt_state ipt_recent ipt_pkttype ipt_owner ipt_multiport ipt_mark ipt_mac ipt_limit ipt_length ipt_helper ipt_esp ipt_ecn ipt_dscp ipt_conntrack ipt_ah ipt_ULOG ipt_TOS ipt_TCPMSS ipt_REJECT ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MIRROR ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_MARK ipt_LOG ipt_ECN ipt_DSCP iptable_nat]
ip_conntrack_irc        3152   1
ip_conntrack_ftp        4176   1
ip_conntrack           20100   6  [ipt_state ipt_helper ipt_conntrack ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
arptable_filter         1456   0  (unused)
arpt_mangle              984   0  (unused)
arp_tables              9472   2  [arptable_filter arpt_mangle]

finegan · 02-20-2004, 03:58 PM

Holy fat crap batman, that's every iptables module out there, and the arp stuff... and nothing else!

Is Crux one of those security paraoid distros?

Check through "dmesg" for agpgart mentionings, and then if it loaded radeon.

dmesg | more

Should see something like:

Code:

agpgart: Detected SiS 735 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
[drm] Initialized r128 2.5.0 20030725 on minor 0

similar that is, different agpart chipset probably and it'll init "radeon" on the drm line.

Also, if there's nothing like that there:

/sbin/modprobe agpgart
/sbin/modprobe radeon

And if it says blah blah blah no such module found, well then, what in the heck is crux shipping a kernel with this stuff not compiled for? Hmm...

Then of course, add the DRI stuff into /etc/X11/XF86Config

Sorry for the reply lag, 1 day's no inet access, 3 days with a cold crambing for an interview...

Cheers,

Finegan

Devilish · 02-20-2004, 04:33 PM

Code:

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
[drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xec000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 1
[drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xec000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized i810 1.2.1 20020211 on minor 2

Code:

# Section "DRI"
#    Mode 0666
# EndSection

I have both of those.....but

Code:

bash-2.05b# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 24 dc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
bash-2.05b#

finegan · 02-20-2004, 04:41 PM

Damn, sweet setup, annoying it hasn't loaded support for that...

glx missing on display huh?

What's the module's declartion part of XF86Config look like?

Code:

Section "Module"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "speedo"
EndSection

Is pretty typical, glx and dri being the biggies there, also, you haven't got hash marks infront of the "DRI" subsection there really, right?

Right now it looks like glx isn't getting loaded for some bizarre reason.

Cheers,

Finegan

Devilish · 02-20-2004, 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by finegan

Is pretty typical, glx and dri being the biggies there, also, you haven't got hash marks infront of the "DRI" subsection there really, right?

Actually there were :blush: I removed those and the ones in the line that loaded the glx........

Also to answer your other ? the modules line looks like....

Code:

Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

    Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "speedo"
#    Load        "freetype"
#    Load        "xtt"

# This loads the GLX module
     Load       "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
     Load       "dri"

EndSection

Devilish · 02-20-2004, 06:20 PM

Code:

bash-2.05b$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20020611 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture,
    GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
    GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
    GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
    GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
    GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset,
    GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_texture3D,
    GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
    GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
    GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
    GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_MESA_window_pos,
    GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix,
    GL_SGI_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x24 24 tc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x25 24 tc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x28 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x29 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x2a 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x2b 24 dc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc  0 24  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x30 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x31 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x32 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
bash-2.05b$

still lag video though.....

Devilish · 02-20-2004, 10:13 PM

ALSO: I ran an OpenGL program and I still LAG really bad.....=(

finegan · 02-22-2004, 05:56 PM

Ugh, those glxinfo settings suck, I really should have done more research before poking my head in, but I don't think the base XFree86 ATI driver handles your card very well... So, DRM is working, it just sucks, check:

glxgears

And see if it spews a DRI error, also what kind of fps do you get?

If it spews a DRI error, joe user still can't access the DRI device node, make certain that the DRI subsection in the XF86Config file is uncommented.

If it doesn't and the fps suck, like below 300, then I'm a bit perplexed because I can pull 400 off my crappy rage 128 card from 1999. There are a number of places to check for better drivers:

gatos.sourceforge.net

and also, the DRM kernel patches... gatos will show you where those are. I've never had to install them by hand, the one time I got curious I just let Gentoo's emerge do all the work, and again it was for that crappy rage card...

Cheers,

Finegan