Can't enable DRI Radeon 7000 AGP
 

I understand many people have had problems with ATI cards and ATI driver questions have been asked hundreds of times, but it seems like the majority of people's questions have been related to higher numbered cards, for which ATI gives out drivers. I've searched linuxquestions and other forums but to no avail.

I've got a Radeon 7000 in a near default install or xorg. I can't have the xorg config right now but I'll try to get it posted later. I've got The extensions dri, glx, drm and dbe loaded. My kernel, a 2.6.7, has support for DRM, AGP INTEL_AGP and RADEON_DRM. For some reason though, I can't get DRI to work, or from what it seems, even try to turn on. In the Xorg.0.log file, it mentions DPMS being enabled, then it says that DRI is disabled. I've got the options for acceleration turned on, and I've got AGPMode set to 4.

Nothing seems to be working, it doesn't even mention DRI aside from saying that it's off. Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: installing ATI's drivers for X, when I run the shell script to install and test the modules, it says the device isn't there.
The same thing happens when I try to modprobe, it lists the path to the module then says device not found.

-Thanks in advance. :)

You need to use the Xorg radeon driver. The ATI one doesn't support these cards.

I have a 7000/7200 working with DRI, so I'll try to post up what I have for config files sometime later today. I'll see if I can remember all the steps I did too.


Good luck with it.

I've changed my config to use the radeon driver, still not working. Here's what I've got for my xorg.conf, some of which I inserted after reading your earlier info about a radeon 7200. I've removed the sections for my tv out but still no luck. :(

And here's my Xorg.0.log. At the bottom, it says dri is disabled and doesn't state a reason. I don't understand this.

do you have the agpgart module loaded ?
( check with " $lsmod " )

egag

The one that came with the ATI package? I can't get those to install right. The install stops with the fglrx driver error.

no, i mean the one that comes with the kernel.
you could try to logout of X, and do a " #modprobe agpgart " ( as root )
( the fglrx driver will not work for that card )

egag

I'm pretty sure I've compiled all the video drivers into the kernel, but when I looked at the .config, I couldn't find anything about AGP GART or AGPGART. Where in the kernel config is it?

Just guessing, but it looks like egag's idea about checking to see if the agpgart module loaded (or is compiled into kernel, or whatever) is a good idea. Also, do you have

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

in the Xorg config?

What about the GLcore module? As in:

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension

SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection

Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"

EndSection


Have you checked out the DRI Wiki?

See http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/
or
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting

IIRC, I just went through their various troubleshooting steps and got DRI working with the XOrg radeon driver. It was a wonderful moment when glxinfo said:

XXX@xxx:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20030328 AGP 4x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 6.1

but I'm not sure sure what I did to get there. It was a while ago and I have trouble remember things from last week, let alone last February, when my xorg.conf was last touched...

Hope some of this helps...

I saw your other post in which you posted your xorg and glxinfo/glxgears output. You were only getting 100FPS on glxgears. I'm currently getting about 250 using software rendering. This isn't going to slow everything down is it?:confused:

I don't know exactly where in the kernel config agpgart is so if someone could tell me where in menuconfig it is, that'd probably get me set there.

I do have the DRI section in my xorg config, although I don't have the GL core module, I'll try adding that after this post. My xorg config is posted above.

Also, in regards to working with DRI, I'm currently using the default mesa drivers for xorg. I tried getting mesa 6.2.1 and 6.2 compiling them with make linux-dri-x86, but it dies on
cd dri; make
or some instruction similar to that. There's no makefile in the dri directory, so it doesn't know what to do. Am I supposed to put my own stuff in there?

EDIT: Think I found something.
dmesg | grep drm
Gives [drm:radeon_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon_cp_init called without lock held
After it's initalized. Appearently I don't have the right chip specific agpgart modules loaded. I did "dmesg | grep agp" and it does say agpgart is loading. so it seems what I need to do is load the module for my chipset. Where in the kernel config is that?:scratch:

for agpgart and agp for your chipset, look under " device drivers--->character devices "

choose agpgart and agp support for your mobo's chipset as modules.
also choose " drm " and under that, " ati radeon " as a module.

and use the " radeon " driver in xorg.conf.

egag

Isn't this all resolution and cpu dependent? I think I got that 100fps in a full sized window at whatever resolution I had at that time. A quick test shows 52fps right now with a full sized window at 1280*1024 running on an Althon 2200+. The default glxgears window produces about 500fps, which climbs to 540fps if I turn off the mp3s playing through XMMS. Glxgears appears to be using 96-98% of the CPU time, so this all seems to make sense to me... The main conclusion I have is that these low end Radeons are kind of lame, no? :)

Who knows? Tuxracer works much better and smoother than it did under software rendering, which looked alot like a slide show of a penguin sitting on a mountain...


Anyway, I have no real idea on the kernel setup, so I'll leave that to egag. Good luck... :)

Ok, I recompiled my kernel, and I got rid of that error in dmesg. Now glxgears runs about 100 FPS slower than it did before. I've still got no hardware acceleration.

I certianly hope I'm close. What else must I do?

well...do some checking...
are the modules loaded ?
look at the xorg.log file for errors/warnings ?

egag

I went through the rest of the DRI troubleshooting wiki, and I got everything working up untill the libGL stuff...

It says I've got to have libGL.so that glxinfo uses pointed at /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.whatever
I had that, and I was getting an error that it said I should get if I don't have it pointed there. I decided mabye I'd try pointing it at the new mesa drivers I'd just compiled. It kicked my FPS back up to 280ish, but after I got rid of the first error via that, I ran into another, it didn't mention
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so.

Which appearntly it's supposed to, so I reverted back to the default X libGL drivers, but I'm stuck in this place. I've got the libGL drivers but I'm getting the errors it says I should only get if I'm not using the default X drivers. I actually get a combination of 2 errors they say I can get...

I get
and just after that I get I'm not quite sure where to go from here. PbO/egag, where is your libGL pointing? what's it say when you
export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose and run glxgears?

at your last Q. :

----------
egag@Slack21:~$ export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
egag@Slack21:~$ glxgears
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 4.0.1 r200 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r200_dri.so
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
libGL error:
Can't open configuration file /etc/drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL error:
Can't open configuration file /home/egag/.drirc: No such file or directory.
3696 frames in 5.0 seconds = 739.200 FPS
3764 frames in 5.0 seconds = 752.800 FPS
3768 frames in 5.0 seconds = 753.600 FPS
---
---------

and i do not have a /lib/modules/dri .... directory ? is that from the mesa drivers ?


and the links of libGL
---------
egag@Slack21:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libGL*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1*
egag@Slack21:~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 611414 2005-02-14 07:07 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 542479 2005-02-14 07:14 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 659352 2005-02-14 07:07 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1.3*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 563990 2005-02-14 07:14 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27902 2005-02-14 07:07 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLw.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLw.so -> libGLw.so.1.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-02-25 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLw.so.1 -> libGLw.so.1.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26550 2005-02-14 07:14 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLw.so.1.0*
--------

as you see they are all linked to libGL.so.1.2

egag