HOWTO: Radeon 9500 (and newer) with DRI

CornedBee · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:31 am Post subject:

OK, so my libpixman problem is fixed.

I still get link errors against dbus with the dbus and xprint use flags enabled: Xprt fails to link because dbus is not specified in the link command and libconfig.a depends on it.

Anyone else seen this problem? I've created a tentative patch, but I'll have to see if it fixes the problem.

Update: The patch fixes the dbus error, but there are two more missing functions that are not clearly from one library. Will take me a bit to hunt them down. In the meantime, here's my patch.

mathfeel · l33t Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 700

I can't compile with xprint USE flag. dbus is fine though.
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piroko · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 77

The ebuild of xorg-server has failed on every version I've tried with different errors for each. Trying to compile xorg-server-1.3.99.999 gives me the following compile error:

tekknokrat · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

like the post before I can't emerge r300-drivers.

But for me the emerge of libdrm failed:

luigi.malago · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

Hello, i'm very confused, hope you can help me.
I have an X600 ati card, and i decided to move from ati-drivers to open source drivers.
and right now i emerged the DRM modules separately.

lordcris · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 248

hi,
i can't emerge mesa

h017ah · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 46

I've got exactly the same problem as lordcris. Running Gentoo 2007.0 with AMD64.

roderick · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:30 am Post subject:

Please update the mesa ebuild to not include the mesa-9999-no-textrel-tls.patch as it was committed upstream, which makes the patch redundant.

I've tested in a local overlay, and removed the epatch line successfully. It just needs to be updated by the overlay maintainer.

Cheers.
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h017ah · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 46

roderick · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject:

I PM'd maintainer... hopefully he will get some time to update.

I also indicated inputproto as not required (same version is in portage now).

As well, there is a newer libtxcdxtn (libtxc_dxtn070518.tar.gz) available upstream. asked for iut to be added as well.
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roderick · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject:

Looks like the changes have been made. So, update your overlay now

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sefi · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

I tried the overlay with my RV410 (PCIE) but as soon as I start X the screen stops receiving any signal (thus going in standby). Furthermore I can't shutdown X in any way but ctrl+alt+rem from init still works to shut down the computer.
I checked the logfile afterwards but there isn't any suspicious line in it that would lead me to the source of the error.
Can anyone tell me what might be the cause? If you need any config files or logs please tell me.

BlackiWid · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 35

Hi i just added your overlay, and now i get from each package some error that there is no Makefile, i went manualy in the tmp dir and startet autogen, after that emerge for this file (at the moment i tryed only libdrm) fine.

What do i make wrong? wrong version of some system tools? am i the first guy with this problem?

So k if you need some more information say me what you want.

Rion · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

BlackiWid · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 35

K now with some fixes from me it did install,
1. i had to go to nearly each of this dirs and make ./autogen.sh and then emerge it again.
1. package i have to add this autogen.sh in the ebuild (...video-ati)
1. package i have to fix the dir, it installed one git in mesa/mesa instead of mesa:

mesa_src_unpack() {
mkdir ${WORKDIR}/${MESA_P}
local S=${WORKDIR}/${MESA_P}
local EGIT_REPO_URI="git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa/mesa"
local EGIT_PROJECT="mesa"
local EGIT_BRANCH="master"
local EGIT_TREE="master"
git_src_unpack
mv /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.99.999/work/mesa /var/tmp/p
ortage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.99.999/work/mesa-old
mv /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.99.999/work/mesa-old/mesa /
var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.99.999/work/mesa
rm /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.99.999/work/mesa-old -rf

is that all normal? or do i have a problem with my mostly stable gentoo installiation, or do you all use only unstable stuff and thats my problem??

sefi · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

roderick · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:11 am Post subject:

I have no problems with latest xorg-server and mouse 1.2.1...

Also, for the user with the autogen problem (BlackiWid), I don't need to do that. Could be the tools you have installed aren't up to speed for properly allow it to work. If you are using an overlay like this one, you probably need to unmask some tools to make this work correctly. It's probably not strictly your fault (you may have uncovered a bug or the ebuild in question has not specified the correct minimum tool required to build with).
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sefi · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

sian · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 288

Mesa 7.0 came out !
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Rion · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:58 am Post subject:

i cant compile xorg-server 1.3.99.999. it requires compositeproto-0.4
so its necessary to add it to overlay
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Slippery Jim · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 264

getting the following when emerging xorg-server:

sefi · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

roderick · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject:

I have a question. I recently gave an old PC I had to a friend and he installed Kununtu (he's really new to the whole linux thing).

Anyway, the OS doesn't matter in this case, and the question is sort of a general one regarding thew radeon driver. The PC had a ATI Radeon 7200, 64 MB RAM, and is AGP.

What I am trying to discern is the correct Xorg settings to enable/disable to get the best performance for 3D. I have managed to get 3D working, but the only problem is stability. There are two cases which I can repeatedly make the system lock up and require a reboot.

1) Neverwinter Nights - play oringinal campaign in main courtyard for 15 to 20 minutes - freeze and display locks. Cannot change console or kill X. Reboot required.

2) Using Amarok - go through each visualization in the equalizer - can't remember which one, but it appears to be GL rendered - instant lock.

I have tried many incarnations of enabling and disabling AGP fast writes, setting the AGP mode from 1, 2 and 4, etc. Anyone out there have a similar card and can test if Amarok crashes similarly? I am trying to figure out if it's simply setting related or an actual bug in the driver. If someone can duplicate it here, we can probably fix it quicker

Anyway, anything you can suggest would be wonderful (PS: the Kubuntu is Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2 with latest updates - i.e. running X 7.3, but apparantly the ATI radeon driver is from 7.2 - tried a snapshot from June 25th - screen flickered too bad to use).
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