IGP320M 3D acceleration & X.org or Xfree86-4.4

damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

do you have to be running xfree4.4 or xorg to use the whatever from here http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/radeonigp/
and it says in the readme here
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/radeonigp/README_First

damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

Do I have to have xfree-drm emerged in order to take advantage of http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/radeonigp/
cause I already have the radeon drivers from 2.6.5 mm sources, and x loads, but I have no dri being initialized, and it certainly is in my config file. When I use that installer even though I do not tell it to install kernel modules, according to the instuctions, it borks everything, and I have to reemerge xfree to get it back, or x won't start and goes on complaining about version number 7 not matching and no display found.
Anyone know if I need to use a certain version of x, will xorg work better?
Actually if someone wanted to write a simple step by step howto that would really be great. :roll:

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Goeland86 · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:58 pm Post subject:

with it on I was getting around 250fps...
so I'm pretty sure you have it.
type in glxinfo and look near the top of the output, it should say
Direct Rendering : "yes" or "no"
Btw, I don't have it anymore... something strange happened and all of a sudden it's not there anymore.
I have no clue what it might be... I'll try and fix it and see where the problem is.
I get a weird module version error though, that shouldn't exist.
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damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

well I just don't know what to say, I mean I can watch movies ever since I stiched to using a radeon driver, but glxinfo says no

damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

I almost forgot to mention that the error I get from the term when I launch something such as tuxracer is this:

Goeland86 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:

damianfrancis, you don't need xorg to make that installer work: it's compatible with both Xorg and XFree.
Give it a try, it oughta work.
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Goeland86 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:25 am Post subject:

oh, and you want to do emerge -C opengl-update before using the patch...
then re-emerge XFree, 'cuz it's a matter of symlinks used for the gl libs.
I had that problem too.
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damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

I did try the patch it did not work. That's when I get crazy jive about no screen and versions being jacked up. Are you saying that the way you work it is to first unmerge openglupdate, then use the patch, but don't uncomment anything in the install.sh (so as to use the kernel modules) then re-merge xfree. Three main steps?
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damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

well I did what you said, I unmerged opengl-update and I ran the installer.sh, then afterwards I remerged xfree. It sure did look like it was building some stuff I had not seen but it sure did not work though. I still get no dri. Poop. :cry:

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Goeland86 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 11:15 am Post subject:

you got the three main steps alright... but then the second and third ones are wrong:
first unmerge opengl-update
second re-emerge xfree
third run install.sh

that should do it. If you emerge xfree on top of the new modules, you're replacing them with old ones, and obviously get mixed versions, where xfree borks bad.
Try it in the order mentioned above, and tell me how that works out.
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Macguyvok · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 1:22 pm Post subject: Hmm...

Well, I did what was orriginally suggested:

1) download latest patch
2) emerge xorg-x11 (ctrl-c after it extracts the sources)
3) cd /var/tmp/xorg-<version>/work/xc
4) patch -p1 <Patch Name>.patch
5) make World && make install

Now I have DRI, and I get about 450fps in glxgears. However there's a new problem. When I start Chromium, or UT their screens are blank. Infact any opengl thing I've tried the screen is just blank, with the exception of openglscope in xmms, and glxgears. Heck, even opengl screensavers don't work.

I noticed that whenever I start a 3D program, it says, "disabling TCL". Any Idea what that is?
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Goeland86 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject:

no, I don't know what TCL is... but I do know, however, that if you use the binairy installer (the tarball indicated) you won't have that problem anymore.
Apparently there's something wrong with the way it compiles the modules, or something else... I'm not sure. Anyways, I had that same problem too. Use the tarball, and the problem should be fixed.
If not, let me know.
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Macguyvok

Well, I just did the following:

1) emerge -C opengl-update
2) emerge xorg-x11
3) sh /home/user/radeon<blah>/install.sh

I rebooted, and started X. X seems to work fine, but glxinfo says I no longer have DRI. tried glxgears, gor 340fps, but chromium run @ about 10 fps. So, I take this to mean I musta done something wrong... Any suggestions?
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damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

Macguyvok It seems that you an I are in the same boat, I am glad you did it with xorg so I don't have to spend time to test this out with xorg. But on the other hand, Goeland86, I am not sure that I see why unmerging opengl-update, then re-merging xfree would, be any different from using the igp install.sh on a system without doing that. Cause when you unmerge opengl-update it goes away, but when you re-merge xfree it emerges opengl-update as well as a dependency, so then using the install.sh would be the same as doing it on a system without going thru all that. What is different about using the install.sh after going through all that, which sounds like it'll just bork my system again causing some conflict between divers and what not. Does it work better if you do not install anything dri from the kernel (ie. agpgart [with ati-agp] and the dri interface and the radeon igp driver) but instead let the install.sh handle building drivers?
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Goeland86 · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:45 am Post subject:

ahh, k... well, I don't know.. opengl-update is not a dependancy for xorg, so I don't know...
honestly, I'm trying as hard as I can to get this working for me, so that I can help you guys out, but it's tricky
I have a module version mismatch to fix first... once it's working I'll put a tarball with the necessary instructions and files up.
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Macguyvok · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I appreciate that. Seriously, I know how hard some of this stuff can be, and I thank you for trying to help. I've been trying to get this working for me for... well... almost a year now. (Never ever had DRI under linux on this laptop)

As a side note, I'm using this patch for my kernel (the 2.6.1), and it does give me a working agpart. I don't know if that helps at all. I'm going to a few things... see if I can't make it work.

Also, on my system opengl-update is a dependency for x-org....

Well, I've got a few hours at work, I think I'm going to try my hand at it...[/url]
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Goeland86 · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:38 pm Post subject:

mmm, weird about the opengl-update... anyways, I would like to point out that I'm using a 2.6.5 without any patch for the agpgart part, and it works flawlessly on that side.
Let me work at it, and you'll have a tarball with patches and a detailed readme file...
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Goeland86 · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

ok, I finally have it running again! yay!

I have Xorg compiled with the latest XFree 4.4 patch I found here:
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314
if you need more directions, read earlier posts in this thread.
I have opengl-update installed too... so I guess that step was unnecessary after all... I wonder who posted on the web that it screwed things up, because it's not true here. Sorry for insisting on it...

Here's what I did after installing the patched Xorg:
Get the latest CVS version of the DRI's project drm following the instructions here: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download

you need only the drm part.
then, without changing directory, type:

tolly · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

After several attempts, I remain baffled.

glxinfo:

Goeland86 · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 12:52 am Post subject:

now the interesting bit is the XLib extension missing... I know I had that at one point, and I can't remember how I fixed it...
oh, and for opengl-update ati to work you need to have the ati-drivers emerged, but I think that step is more optional than anything, so you can skip it safely.
Try looking around for a solution to that XLib extension problem...
Also, if you really insist with opengl-update, since you're running Xorg, you need to type

tolly · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

As it turns out, I was being a bit of a retard.....

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a was actually a sym-link to an old bit of xfree.

So basically it works now.

Just to reiterate:

I unmerged xfree, fetched and unpacked xorg-x11, patched it with this patch, then compiled and qmerged it. I then ran the install.sh script, and opengl-update xorg-x11.

And it works!!! (~195fps glxgears)

thanks to Mr Goeland for all his hard work.

tolly

Goeland86 · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 1:09 am Post subject:

tolly, the pleasure is mine: I've received so much help from others in the Gentoo forums that I'm glad I can help in return!
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damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

I thought I would post here since I have dri working now. Glxgears looks right, glxinfo says I do have dri enabled on my display, and I launched tuxracer (after realizing that the reason it was not working was it had to be 1024x768 minimum, but it played flawlessly. I do not however seem to be able to view any of the OpenGL screensavers, they just look black when I test them, and the little view window shows some really wierd stuff when I am just in the kde screensaver config window, Hmm. That is a might anoying. Anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot what is going wrong with the screensavers? I did not get the patch that was mentioned. I downloaded the install.sh then I unmerged opengl-update, then I re-emerged xorg-x11 (which automatically remerged opengl-update first as a dependency) then I ran the install.sh on the fresh xorg install. Made sure the right things were in the xconfig, and all was up and running. By the way I am currently on mm-sources-2.6.6-rc4 using the dri and ati_agp as well as the built in redeon igp drivers. And according to dmesg I already had drm enabled on my card, but dri was not getting enabled with x untill just now. Thanks for all the help :lol:

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amigafan · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Hmm...

damianfrancis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 120

I feel like the opengl screen savers not working must have something to do with the way that the screen saver is trying to access the display, such as in 800x600 but I am not sure about that. It just seems so odd that in the past for me, if I didn't have opengl nothing opengl worked, and now I have it, in that tuxracer, and other opengl games work fine, but just not the screen savers. Some of mine simply don't show up, others do like the rubics cube, but they are all "flashy" and "wierd." When I get the chance I'm gonna spend some time trouble shooting it. Is there anyone on this thread who has gotten their dri working, and does have opengl screensavers, meybe there is a caveat to it some of us are missing.
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