radeon 9600 no direct rendering on debian
 

hi,
i have recently installed Debian Woody. i am in the process of trying to get my radeon 9600 se video card to work. so far i have installed the experimental X4.3 and the fglrx driver for 4.3, and updated my kernel-version to 2.4.24. it would seem that 2d acceleration is working, but 3d is not. i have been told by another person who owns a similar radeon card that i should be able to utilize 3d acceleration ???


one problem seems to be that i cannot get the agpgart module to load:

/lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: init_module: Invalid argument
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod agpgart failed


for some reason lspci lists to video adapters (i only have one card and definitely no embedded adapter):

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4151
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4171

X tries to load video onto 01:00.1, but fails and then seems to fall back to 01:00.0. i don't know if this has anything to do with the problem, but i thought i should include the info.


noticed interesting warnings in kernel compile section char drm:

drm_os_linux.h:16: warning: #warning the author of this code needs to read up on list_entry
In file included from radeon_drv.c:35:
radeon_drv.h:846: warning: #warning PCI posting bug
In file included from drm_dma.h:33,
from radeon_drv.c:42:
drm_os_linux.h:16: warning: #warning the author of this code needs to read up on list_entry
In file included from radeon_drv.c:38:
drm_agpsupport.h: In function `radeon_agp_acquire':
drm_agpsupport.h:82: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value


also found this part of XFree86.0.log rather interesting and potentially useful to someone who knows more than i do ;) :

II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xc0500000 (size=0x07b00000)
(II) fglrx(0): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x
(II) fglrx(0): detected XFree86 version: 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, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)

drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
(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): ********************************************* *
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1024,8191)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1024,768) (front color buffer - assumption)
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 768)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7419
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
32 256x256 slots
16 512x512 slots
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering disabled
(II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION
(II) Loading extension ATITVOUT
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.


i hope this is enough information to describe properly the problems i am having with my display. i am a newbie to linux, so none of this really makes much sense to me.
i would be very greatful for any assistance with this matter. i NEED 3d accel as i am dying to install and run QuakeForge ;)

-daemonTED

i also have 9600 pro and its working 3d now at LAST

i recompiled the kernel

From the ATI Linux driver page ( http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/l...eon-linux.html ) download the latest driver for XFree86 4.3.0 to /tmp. The file name should be similar to fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm.

As root run the following commands:
cd /tmp
alien fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm
dpkg --force-overwite -i fglrx-glc22_4.3.0-4.7_i386.deb
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
./make.sh
cd /lib/modules/fglrx
./make_install.sh
fglrxconfig

After completing your X configuration using fglrxconfig, press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart X

thankyou, but didn't work :(
 

hmm, i am very greatful for heema's prompt reply, but unfortunately that did not help my situation. i recompiled the kernel when i updated to 2.4.24, so i figure that step was covered.
since updating my kernel i had not done both the .deb install and the manual fglrx kernel module install so, as heema's instructions specified, i tried that. (i had only done the fglrx kernel module install - ./make.sh ./make_install.sh - after updating to 2.4.24)
i then proceeded to run fglrxconfig (is there something that i could have done wrong in that - can anyone help me with this one?), and saved it at the end as fglrxconfig wishes to do.
after following those steps, i restarted X.
still no direct rendering :(
tried running tuxkart racer as a test too - still got 2fps approx :cry:

i am starting to wonder if i have done something really wrong in my setup.
the only difference in my problem to what it would seem heema experienced is that i have the radeon 9600 SE, not radeon 9600 PRO. -would this make a difference????

HELP ;)

-daemonTED

and just a quick li'l ditty - could this possibly be because i am running Woody?
-i do not have a full understanding as to whether it is only the kernel version that affects such compatibilities, or the also the distribution
???

-daemonTED

I'm quite nOOb in Linux and I also have a problem with Radeon Driver

I have followed the instruction descibe by heema, but when I launch Gnome (with x), it starts but I receive the message "Symbol from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o is unresolved"

My kernel is 2.6.2.

Any idea ?

Same thing here. I encountered the same problems on Debian with ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. Anyone know how to fix the problem?

unknown111 - what kernel and distro and such are you running?
really need more info.
i would suggest running 2.6.7. it is really good for things like DMA too.
also, are you running X4.3?

please provide as much information as possible

I am also trying to install these on Debian with a 9600 Pro.
I am using Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.7-1-k7 (downloaded the kernel-image, headers, kernel source).

Supposedly it installs the .deb I made with alien just fine:
When I go into /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod and do 'sh make.sh' I run into this:
Your next step says to 'cd ..' and do './make_install.sh' but because of the above hangup I cannot do that and therefore am stuck when it comes to installing these drivers.

Any ideas? :scratch:

i used to run a radeon 9600se. there was quite a bit of hassle invlolved, but i did get it going. this could be a stupid question, but could it have anything to do with you entering 'sh make.sh' rather than just './make.sh' ??

Well I tried that, this was the outcome:
Tried as both 'su' and 'su -' :-/

ahh, okay. have you done chmod to make it so that make.sh is executable?
if you haven't, you will also have to chmod make_install.sh :)

in case you are not familiar with chmod, as root:

chmod +x make.sh

then

chmod +x make_install.sh


i hope this helps a little as i know how much of a PITA installing a radeon on linux is

Well I gave that a try, still getting that same error though. Argh, why must things be so difficult sometimes :(

Installed kernel 2.6.9 in hopes that there might be a slight miracle and things would install properly, but still getting the same:
SysInfo: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7 | AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ 2166.596 MHz | Bogomips: 4276.22 | Mem: 408/504M | Diskspace: 145.68G Free: 127.97G | Procs: 64 | Screen: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] @ 1280x1024 (24 bpp)

Well I tried using the package "fglrx-driver" from Ubuntu's apt sources. That seemed to install fine, i.e. no error messages. However, I still get something like "FATAL: module fglrx does not exist" or something to that effect. So, I uninstalled that and am back to trying to use the official ATI drivers, but still getting no where.
Please oh please help!

Finally, a solution!

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...826#post646826

Basically, as pointed out in the howto, the make.sh file is looking for the drm drivers in the wrong place, so I simply copied the drm directory from the kernel source to the lib/modules section where it should be (before there were just 2 files, no drivers of any kind):
cp -Rf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9/drivers/char/drm/ /lib/modules/2.6.9-1-k7/build/drivers/char/

And now....

pibby@poopsmith:~$ glxinfo
direct rendering: Yes

pibby@poopsmith:~$ glxgears
17114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3422.800 FPS
23196 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4639.200 FPS
23186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4637.200 FPS
23115 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4623.000 FPS
23290 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4658.000 FPS
23257 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4651.400 FPS
23195 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4639.000 FPS
23082 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4616.400 FPS
23204 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4640.800 FPS

pibby@poopsmith:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4641 (X4.3.0-3.14.1)

Hope this helps someone else in the future and thanks to those who tried to help out with my problem. :)