ati in -current upgrade

danielldaniell · 03-03-2010, 01:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dolphin77

rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.33
upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall /{path to your local slackware mirror}/slackware64/a/kernel-modules-2.6.33*.t?z should do the trick.

Besides that this example is working on slackware64 only, this won't do the trick.
The error resides in the (kernel-modules or kernel-image) packages itself.

stonefly · 03-03-2010, 02:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stormtracknole

I was having similar issues with the nvidia driver. Take a look at your kernel .config file and see if you have this:

Code:

CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set

If not, then go ahead and make those changes and rebuild your kernel. That's what I had to do in order for the NVIDIA drivers to work.

Seems to work also with the radeon driver.

LordAnta · 03-03-2010, 03:09 AM

@BrZ: what about lilo?

@stormtracknole: did you recompile the kernel from the update or did you download a tarball from kernel.org?

danielldaniell · 03-03-2010, 03:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LordAnta

what about lilo?

What about it? Nonsense question...

BrZ · 03-03-2010, 04:01 AM

Check if your lilo is 'pointing' to the new kernel. Sometimes you'll need to rerun it to 'load' the new kernel... pardon my ignorance.

lightx · 03-03-2010, 06:51 AM

I have the same problem. The weird thing is that I can load the drivers with insmod. I load drm.ko and drm_something_else.ko and then I can load i915.ko. I double checked to see if /etc/rc.d/rc.modules was pointing at the right one and it now does. I've rebooted since then but it still did a little booboo. Not sure how or what is broken.. ?

stormtracknole · 03-03-2010, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LordAnta

@BrZ: what about lilo?

@stormtracknole: did you recompile the kernel from the update or did you download a tarball from kernel.org?

I re-compiled the Slackware provided kernel. Follow Alien-Bob's how-to on this link.

danielldaniell · 03-03-2010, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stonefly

Seems to work also with the radeon driver.

Apparently this solution is working for me too. Previous kernel configs had that option...

weird.

LordAnta · 03-03-2010, 09:13 AM

recompiling the kernel CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y did the trick. Thanks guys!

stormtracknole · 03-03-2010, 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LordAnta

recompiling the kernel CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y did the trick. Thanks guys!

Excellent!

Lucifer4o · 03-03-2010, 09:48 AM

I'm recompiling my kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y and I'll give you feedback, but I think my problem is elsewhere:

I'trying to install fglrx 10-2 and it gives back error:

Unloading radeon module...
Unloading drm module...
[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
Error:
kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/build/include do not match current kernel.
they are versioned as ""
instead of "2.6.33-smp".
you might need to adjust your symlinks:
- /usr/include
- /usr/src/linux
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.

Do someone have the same problem?

gtludwig · 03-03-2010, 10:36 AM

err, is this right?

I upgraded to the latest -current (kernel 2.6.33) and, after rebooting, I tried to install ATi's latest drivers, 10.2. On CLI, it failed to install. On X, it (at least apparently!) did finished installation and reported no errors.

Should this happen?

adamk75 · 03-03-2010, 10:40 AM

fglrx does not work with 2.6.33. Even if the driver installed, I'm quite certain you will not have 3D acceleration.

Adam

Lucifer4o · 03-03-2010, 10:45 AM

DEAMN! Then where can I download the old 2.6.32 package ... it worked ok ...

gtludwig · 03-03-2010, 11:16 AM

Yeah, it did indeed!

Anyway, googleing a bit further, I found these threads on Phoronix Forums (ATi's official forums, I reckon):

1) Fglrx 10.2 fails to install on 2.6.33

2) AMD Catalyst 10.2 for Linux Gets Direct2D

In thread 1, they say that a patch supposedly may be applied to fglrx driver installation and will solve the problem. I took the liberty to attach it here (just rename it from .patch.txt to .patch).

Thread 2 has a link to Gentoo's bugzilla for this very patch.

I tried to apply this patch, but it didn't seem to work. I don't know whether it failed due to the patch been made for 10.1 or whatever. I tried replacing all references from 10.1 to 10.2 on it to run it again, but got no luck at all, as I described here.

Guess I'll have to revert to 2.6.32 as well...