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mr-simon
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 Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:29 am Post subject: [solved] Radeon:xorg won't start: failed to set drm interf.. |
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I've installed gentoo on my machine with two HD 7970 Radeon cards.
I'm having trouble getting xorg to start. KMS is working OK (I had trouble with that and needed 'nomodeset' until I realised I needed the firmware installed) and the 'radeon' module is loaded
I've set VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi"
I'm running a genkernel-next kernel (boooo) and I am using systemd.
This is what lspci says I have:
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frey ~ # lspci | grep radeon -i
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7970 Series]
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7970 Series]
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The relevant part of the Xorg.0.log appears to be:
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[ 29.439] (--) RADEON(G0): Chipset: "TAHITI" (ChipID = 0x6798)
[ 29.439] (EE) RADEON(G0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.
[ 29.439] (EE) RADEON(G0): Kernel modesetting setup failed
[ 29.439] (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
[ 29.439] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
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Full output is rather long, but I've posted it here: http://cxg.de/_59be93.htm
dmesg output is here: http://cxg.de/_1c9b82.htm
And emerge --info is here: http://cxg.de/_dccf90.htm
`eselect opengl list` only lists xorg-x11 as an option.
I'm running ~amd64 xf86-video-ati, mesa and xorg-server. I tried the stable version first and I got a different error. (I forget what it was.) Here's what portage has to say about those things:
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frey ~ # emerge -pv mesa xorg-server xf86-video-ati
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ~] media-libs/mesa-10.4.3 USE="classic dri3 egl gallium gbm llvm nptl opencl r600-llvm-compiler udev xa xvmc -bindist -debug -gles1 -gles2 -openmax -osmesa -pax_kernel -pic (-selinux) -vaapi -vdpau -wayland" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi (-freedreno) -i915 -i965 -ilo -intel -nouveau -r100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -vmware" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.3-r1:0/1.16.1 USE="glamor ipv6 kdrive nptl suid systemd udev xorg -dmx -doc -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -tslib -unwind -wayland -xnest -xvfb" 0 KiB
[ebuild R ~] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0 USE="glamor udev" 0 KiB
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I'd rather not try the closed-source drivers if I can avoid it.
Any ideas, folks? 
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| May I ask why you do not use the binary ati-drivers? And yes I know you maybe want the open source drivers .. |
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chithanh
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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It appears that you have vesafb enabled. Although radeon implements handover from vesafb, sometimes this does not work properly. Better disable all fb hardware drivers.
Also if you use systemd, then you need >=xinit-1.3.4 if you want to use startx.
EDIT:
Some fdo bugs seem to suggest that you need to use BusID parameter in xorg.conf, or disable AutoAddGPU:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63576
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56435 |
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grumblebear
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I got exactly the same error as I tried xorg-server-1.16.3-r1 a few days ago and was unable to find a solution, so I had to go back to stable. You will have better luck with that, too. |
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Ant P.
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| dmesg says one card (03:00.0) is headless, I wonder if that's confusing it? You might have better luck not letting X autodetect everything. |
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mr-simon
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Apologies for going quiet. I ran out of time for this so parked it for a bit.
I looked at it again yesterday and noticed there was an update to Xorg 1.16.4. I installed that and the problem went away.
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