Is fglrx working with ATI Mobility 9700 ?

[ptitjack]

Hi all,

Just a question :
Does the ati proprietary driver fglrx work with ATI Mobility 9700 (RV350 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10) graphic card ?
I can't get it working for months.

Keynux laptop x86 Pentium M 1.7 GHz
2.6.25-r4 kernel
ATI Mobility 9700 (RV350 M10)


Thank you for your help.

Jacques

Here's the output of Xorg.log :

(II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
(II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux//libfglrxdrm.so
(II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.50.3
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) fglrx(0): Using adapter: 1:0.0.
(EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize ASIC in kernel.
(II) fglrx(0): [FB] Find the MC FB aperturs range(MCFBBase = 0x90000000, MCFBSize = 0x8000000)
(--) fglrx(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte, Type: DDR SGRAM / SDRAM
(II) fglrx(0): AGP card detected
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"(II) Module already built-in
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: LCD on internal LVDS [lvds]
(II) fglrx(0): Display1: No EDID information from DDC.
(II) fglrx(0): Display1: Failed to get EDID information.
(WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitDAL failed


My xorg.conf :

# **********************************************************************
# DRI Section
# **********************************************************************
Section "dri"
# Access to OpenGL ICD is allowed for all users:
Mode 0666
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"

# The Identifier line must be present
# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens. The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the
# right of screen 1.
# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents". In this example, "Mouse1" is the core pointer,
# and "Mouse2" is an extended input device that also generates core
# pointer events (i.e., both mice will move the standard pointer).
Identifier "Main Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
# Screen 1 "Screen1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIGLX" "true"

EndSection


Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "XVideo" "true"
EndSection




Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# For XFS, uncomment this and comment the others
# FontPath "unix/:-1"
# The default path is shown here.
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/wine"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"

EndSection

Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "dbe"
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection

Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "i2c"
Load "freetype"
# Load "aiglx" #3D layer
Load "glx"
# Load "glcore"
Load "dri"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "fbdevhw"

EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"



EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# These are the default XKB settings for xorg
#
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
# Option "XkbVariant" ""
# Option "XkbOptions" ""
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:lwin"

# Specifiy which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)).
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Option "ChordMiddle"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
# On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
HorizSync 40-75
VertRefresh 60
# DisplaySize 431 269
DisplaySize 330 210

# DisplaySize 320 200
# DisplaySize 160 100



EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DPMS"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=4e50

Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" # Use XFree86 Acceleration Architecture
Option "MergedFB" "false"
Option "RenderAccel" "true" # Enable the hardware render acceleration
Option "DPMS"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" #active le l' echange de plage mémoire
Option "AGPMode" "4" # Décommentez si vous avez une carte AGP
Option "AGPSize" "128" # Décommentez si vous avec une carte AGP AGP aperture size
Option "GARTSize" "64"
# Option "RingSize" "8"
# Option "BufferSize" "2"

EndSection


Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24

Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

[m3sm3r]

I got mine to work with kernel 2.6.24-r8. I have the same card on my HP/Compaq nc6000

Try only with the following modules in the Modules section and comment all the options in the Device section. This should get you started and then you can enable options one at a time to see what's actually failing

[ksp7498]

with that card, dri should work fine using the open-source 'radeon' driver with a recent kernel. That's my suggestion...it may not be quite as fast as fglrx but it works a million times better.
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[ptitjack]

Hi,

I still can't get my card to work with fglrx.
I tried everything as you said :
uncommenting some lines in xorg.conf,
downgrading or upgrading ati-drivers,
changing the kernel....
Always the same error :
II) fglrx(0): Display1: Failed to get EDID information.
(WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitDAL failed

So I go back to the free radeon driver working fine with 3D acceleration.
I tried proprietary ati driver because, some softs don't work very well (Celestia, keyjnote...).

Thanks for the answers.

Cheers,


Jacques