Radeon Mobility, XFree86 4.3, and DRI

xcable

Specs :
Sony PCG-GR390 Laptop
Radeon Mobility M6 LY
XFree86 4.3.0-r1
ck-sources-2.4.20-r4

Has anyone got this to work? I have searched the forums and have found no definite fix for this. I have tired many many different configurations and it stills does not work.

XF86Config file ---------------------------------------------

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "GLcore"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/endodings
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TouchPad"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/usbmouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop LCD"
HorizSync 31.5-64.3
VertRefresh 40-150
vendorname "[Laptop LCD]"
modelname "[Laptop LCD]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "Generic"
VideoRam 16320
BoardName "ati"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "DPMS" "on"
Option "crt_screen" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "ATI Radeon"
Monitor "Laptop LCD"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024/61Hz" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024/61Hz" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024/61Hz" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
#InputDevice "USB Mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
#InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "TouchPad" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

What do you mean with "work".
I have a Radeon Mobility but no DRI because of a nasty problem during the logout. If you still have xfree 4.2 maybe DRI works without that problem.
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snkmoorthy · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 376

use radeon driver not ati

wunderk1nd · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 10

First off, download the latest radeon drivers from http://dri.sourceforge.net/

This should be something like radeon-20021022-linux.i386.tar.gz, or newer...

Quit out of X and run the install.sh file contained in it.. should be fairly painless

edit your XF86Config file and change the Driver to "radeon" and add the following:

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

And also you must edit your kernel config and make sure that you do NOT include anything DRM in the kernel, as it will make this not work!

It is very important to get the newest drivers from dri.sourceforge.net as they can drastically improve performance. With the kernel radeon drivers in 2.4.20 I got a mere 800-900 FPS when running glx gears with my ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, and when I changed to the newest drivers I got around 1600 FPS, almost a 200% increase..

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xcable · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject: tried that, but it failed

Thanks for the help and suggestions, but.....

I tried that but, X will not come up correctly. The screen goes black, then some white lines are up, and then the screen justs fades away, but ctrl+alt+backspace still works.

I recomplied my kernel (ck sources) and made apgart and dir as modules, modified my XF86Config to call out "radeon" instead of "ati" as the driver. I will try the regular Linus kernel and maybe the gentoo kernel.

Any other ideas?

xcable

wunderk1nd · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 10

Here's what i have done to my kernel:

agpart is included along with the support for my motherboard
Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support) is not included. This will conflict with the radeon drivers that you should install seperately..

I dunno if that helps, from what's happening with you, probably not.. You should probably not include dri as a module because they have a tendency of being loaded when you don't want them to be..

It took me many many kernel recompiles to get this working, luckily i have a p4 1700, so it only takes 15 minutes or so..

Oh yea one more thing.. upgrade to Xfree86 4.3.0.. that also helps boost performance a ton, and I haven't had any problems with bugs in it.. yet...
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