ATI radeon Sticky (part 2)

blursmurf · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 45

hi there... need some help... i compiled xorg 6.7... haven been hanging out in forums and thus missed 6.8... anywayz... if i enable (dri/drm ??? forgot or was it mtrr) under xorg.conf to enable 3d accelaration, my x server will USUALLY hang when i kill it or shut it down... if it's disabled, then nother bad will happen..... anywayz, i'm using an ati radeon 9700 mobility card and the fglrx drivers.... also using the radeon framebuffer.... help please =) thanks in advance

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

@blursmurf: Does the driver actually recognise your card (check the Xorg log)? I thought the Mobility 9700 still wasn't supported. In addition, the radeon framebuffer will often conflict with the fglrx driver, causing lockups when shutting down X or switching to a console with CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. Try using the VESA framebuffer instead.

@SirPreme: try setting "UseInternalAGPGART" to "no" then. This makes it use the kernel AGP support rather than the drivers, which has always been a bit iffy on KT400s. As I said earlier, you might want to try a 2.6 kernel as well, it has more up to date AGP support than 2.4.

vord · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 31

i followed this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1566763 other guide, and posted my problem with it at the end of the thread.

subsequently i tried the guide you mentioned and my problem with it is as follows:

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

kassah · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Portland, OR

Here's the problem I have... Used to be if I did startx with root... or ran gdm from root (not init script)... it wouldn't do this... but then I ran fglrxconfig script and now it does it all the time.

(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (

is not supported by fglrx driver
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitVisual failed
(EE) fglrx(0): R200PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(0): === [R200PreInit] === end
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

my conf is a very simple conf... made by Xorg -configure and edited to have fglrx where ati was.

giannifive · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Chicago, IL

vord: Your signal 11 problem looks similar to the problems jfbilodeau and I are having: there is no clear error reported in Xorg.0.log, then the server segmentation faults.

Your Xorg.0.log file is very short, though, and it looks like the server crashes before fglrx loads. So perhaps your problem is a bit different.

In any case, I would like to get to the bottom of this "xorg + ati-drivers" segfault issue...

vord · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 31

i wasnt aware that a segfault was occuring ... where is this indicated?
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giannifive · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Chicago, IL

vord: It says signal 11. According to "kill -l":

vord · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 31

i see.
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jfbilodeau · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject: Woo hoo! I found an error!

Hey all,

I finally manage to get X.org.0.log to cough up an error while turning UserInternalAGPGART to 'yes'. Here it is:

sr20seth · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:33 pm Post subject:

I had trouble with X/ATI/unresolved symbols when compiling with 3.4. I ran gcc-config 1, then emerge xorg-x11 ati-drivers.

After that everything was peachy again.

amulius · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 5

jfbilodeau

sr20seth: Thanks for the suggestion. I think we're onto something now.

I still can't start X with GLX. However, after running 'gcc-config 1', I can now compile ati-drivers-3.9.0-r1. Originally, I could only compile ati-drivers-3.12.0 in the unstable tree.

I've recompiled xorg-x11, ati-drivers and the kernel (since the new module would not load). Is there something else I should look at recompiling?

Also, what does gcc-config do exactly?

Thanks. I think we'll get GLX working eventually!

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:19 am Post subject:

gcc-config just switches between different major versions of gcc that you might have installed. If you run gcc-config -l, it'll show you which versions the numbers correspond to. Eg;

jfbilodeau · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:55 am Post subject:

Is there an actually OpenGL library (ie: Mesa), or does the ATI driver provide that library?

I'm trying to figure out which lib I might be missing

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:25 am Post subject:

The libraries for the ATI driver should be stored under /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib. I can't think why they wouldn't be there. Were there any other errors in that log you posted?
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VisionD · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:35 am Post subject:

Hi there,

i hope i am right in this thread because my problem isn´t excactly about the driver.

I am having problems with my mobile 9600 and i want to try some configurations with my xorg.conf.

What would be an easy (hopefully automatic) way to figure out the modelines i could use for my widescreen display (using a DELL Inspiron 8600).

There are some modelines in the forum but none of them worked correctly for me.

Thx in advance.

Greetz
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jfbilodeau · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:

Thanks again for your help Wedge_.

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:47 am Post subject:

criis · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject:

SirPreme · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 25

"@SirPreme: try setting "UseInternalAGPGART" to "no" then. This makes it use the kernel AGP support rather than the drivers, which has always been a bit iffy on KT400s. As I said earlier, you might want to try a 2.6 kernel as well, it has more up to date AGP support than 2.4.

Quote:
"Is there any possibility to scale down the frequency or something like that? What can I do?"

There's an option in the kernel config to enable the PowerNow! functionality for XP-M processors (at least in 2.6, I don't know about 2.4), and you can then emerge a daemon to control CPU speed (powernowd is one, there are others) or do it manually via a /proc entry. I don't know how much help this would be though, because it would typically switch to the highest frequency anyway when you started a game."

This is what I did:
1) I changed to kernel 2.6
2) I used cpuspeedy and set the cpu frequency to the lowest avaible option.

Result:
I had the same problems.

What I really meant was if I could scale the frequency of the GPU. ??

I will try to use the external AGPGART modules soon.

One more think that seemed important for me: If I have a hangup in i. e. tuxracer, the music plays on without any problems.

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject:

SirPreme · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 25

I set UseInternalAGPGART to NO, but it didn't help...

jfbilodeau · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:

Hum.... I tried to disable DRI and enable GLX, and now, it works. It seems that fglrx will work either with DRI or GLX enabled, but not both.

However, with GLX enable, I get terrible performance with glxgears.

Scanning the log, I've found further 'unresolved symbols'. Here are some interesting lines in Xorg.0.log:

sr20seth · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

sorry I forgot to mention that i had to recompile the kernel with gcc 3.3.x also. I believe that was all i had to recompile.