ATI Radeon Driver Hell
I've got an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI on a gentoo box running a 2.6 kernel and any time I try to use the hardware acceleration I get crapped on. When I tell X to load with the fglrx driver I get an error about not being able to initialize agp in the Xorg.0.log file. This makes perfect sense what with this being a PCI card.
I've tried setting the BusType "PCI" option in xorg.conf but that still gives me the error. Do I need a different version of the driver or something? What other options do I have? |
"fglrx" *doesn't* support pci cards, use DRI's "radeon" instead if you want hardware acceleration.
...then BusType "PCI" can be used, it's a DRI specific option. |
Okay, so I changed the driver to "radeon" in xorg.conf, but now I'm getting this error in my Xorg.0.log file:
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK) drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:0a.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 6 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) 830,2 83% drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. What could be causing this? Is there some option in my xorg.conf that I'm missing? I'll post it here: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "record" Load "extmod" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "xtrap" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 320 240 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "CPQ" ModelName "COMPAQ 7550" HorizSync 30.0 - 86.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 140.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional Option "NoAccel" "False" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>] Option "BusType" "PCI" # [<str>] #Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>] #Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i> #Option "AGPMode" # <i> #Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>] #Option "AGPSize" # <i> #Option "GARTSize" # <i> #Option "RingSize" # <i> #Option "BufferSize" # <i> #Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>] #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>] Option "DRIReinit" "True" # [<bool>] #Option "PanelOff" # [<bool>] #Option "DDCMode" # [<bool>] #Option "MonitorLayout" # [<str>] #Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>] #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "MergedFB" # [<bool>] #Option "CRT2HSync" # [<str>] #Option "CRT2VRefresh" # [<str>] #Option "CRT2Position" # [<str>] #Option "MetaModes" # [<str>] #Option "MergedDPI" # [<str>] #Option "NoMergedXinerama" # [<bool>] #Option "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" # [<bool>] #Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>] #Option "PanelSize" # [<str>] #Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq> #Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "DynamicClocks" # [<bool>] #Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>] #Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>] #Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>] #Option "BIOSHotkeys" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Unknown Board" BusID "PCI:1:10:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Is there anything in there that I should change? |
Your kernel doesn't have a "radeon" module or "fglrx" is still loaded
...is the most obvious reasons for such an error. Try modprobe -v radeon and see what it spits out, before you try to start X. |
Okay, so I recompiled the kernel with the radeon drivers compiled as a module, and I unloaded fglrx but I still get no direct rendering and the same message in my Xorg.0.log file. Are there any other log files that I could look at to get more specific info? Is there anything else that I can do to try and get this working?
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Also if you installed ATI's proprieaty driver, it most likely overwrote Xorg's libGL.so.1.2, you'll have to straighten that out eventually too, if it's the case. ...but that has nothing to do with the "radeon" module not loading though. |
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