Direct rendering with ATI Radeon Mobility IGP 320M

JSylvia007 · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:54 am Post subject:

Hey guys! I also suffer from the Radeon IGP320M "problem". VERY new to gentoo, but not so new to linux. I read this entire thread, and I think i'm ready to tackle this. I have some questions before I start tho.

TriGun: You say that the love5 kernel has all the patches installed.

Does this mean, that I can emerge the love5 kernel, do a genkernel --config set the options that i need / want... (are there any i should stay away from).

Then, I can emerge the xfree-4.3.99.902.ebuild wait for that to compile (go out and build a pizza restaurant, then eat some pizza) Once it's compiled, reboot, and i should be able to run GLXGEARS and see something like ~450fps??

Am i reading that it's finally become this easy??

Please advise

~Jake

EDIT: I went looking through portage, and i couldnt find the love5 kernel... Is there another kernel I could use, ??

pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

Heres the ebuild since its been removed from portage.

http://unixhead.org/docs/thinkpad/xfree-4.3.99.16.ebuild

Ya need to copy it to /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/ then use the instructions a few pages back to get it patched. You'll need to run

sfb · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 6

JSylvia007 · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

Just to recap packman, (thanks for the ebuild, BTW) but if i use the newest -mm kernel, I shouldnt have to patch a kernel??

~Jake

pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

Jake: Other than applying the -mm patch you shouldn't need any others yep. I've got DRM running on 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 with a 340M.

If just the -mm patch doesn't work, check out the -love patchset which includes the http://consultmatt.co.uk igp stuff (and the -mm patch). Search the "Other things gentoo" forum for it, also has ebuilds knocking about which might make life a bit easier.

There is a kernel module included in XFree but its not installed by default, check a few pages back for instructions how to get it running. That might be useful if you don't want to change or patch kernels. Not sure how well it works though.

If you've got the wrong kernel module you'll get an error in /var/log/XFree86 just before it says "Direct Rendering Disabled" something like "mismatched fb location". Some older radeon igp modules have texture issues, the newest from consultmatt and -mm don't for me.

JSylvia007 · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:58 am Post subject:

to be honest, i'm new to patching things, i've never had to do any of that in the past... so here are some other questions that i pose to you... Looking at capnjameskirk's directions, i basically typed

pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

The xfree patch I'm using is from here: http://bugs.xfree.org/attachment.cgi?id=723&action=view

Check the guide by uberlord on the 3rd page of this thread for installation instructions for xfree. You did well to stop when you saw the rejected chunks, meaning the patch didn't change all the bits of code it wanted to, X compiles the radeon DRI stuff last so it wouldave taken about 2 hours before you got an error message and compile died

You need patched xfree and a radeon kernel module.

If you're going to use the kernel module supplied with X (it's not installed by default) you should be OK with any kernel. With your current kernel you can use the ati_agp and radeon modules that come with it and not worry about using xfree's kernel module, you still need to patch xfree to update its drivers though.

The kernel options are in device drivers->character devices. The ones you want are /dev/agpgart, Direct Rendering Manager, ATI Chipset support and radeon. I'd recommend doing them as modules (except DRM, won't allow you to choose it as a module) then you can replace/unload them later for testing.

Bit of extra advice, if you're using framebuffer (1024x768 console) don't use the radeon framebuffer module, use instead the vesa vga one. That might solve your garbled display. Only use support for 1 framebuffer too otherwise 2.6 cacks itself, with 2.4 you could compile them all in and it'd just use one, not any more.

JSylvia007 · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:

Thanks for the quick reply!!! I'll be looking into this as soon as i get back to my laptop tomorrow... I'll keep you... posted... hehe Thanks for all the help!! I really appreciate it.

~Jake

JSylvia007 · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject:

IT WORKS!!! Using pakman's advice above, and UberLord's directions on page 3 of this thread, 3D support is now fully operational on my Radeon IGP320M. Advice to future people... Read this thread completely before you try any of this, and dont be afraid to ask any of us for help.

Now all I have left is to get my W200 Wireless card working with my 2.6 kernel... Works perfectly in 2.4... Not quite sure why it isnt working now... Thats a problem for another post.

Thanks for all the help everyone!!

~Jake

mizery de aria · Guru Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 309

JSylvia007: What version of xfree do you have installed?

In /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree all I see are:

JSylvia007 · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:01 am Post subject:

Above is a link for the ebuild that you need to use.

~Jake

Enderson · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

I read all the post and did all the tasks but I'm getting hits error at the dmesg

Enderson · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

I compiled the mm-sources 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 and the Direct Rendering worked OK for me,
I played Quake3 ithout problems. I`m getting ~500 with glxgears.

But I have the problems os synaptics drivers and acpi.

If I don`t put acpi=off the boot freezes.
And the touchpad isn`t working too.

Anyone with these problems?

I have a HP compaq nx 9005.
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mizery de aria · Guru Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 309

blargh, I'm using 2.6.3-rc2-mm kernel as well, but I don't have direct rendering working yet. I followed the steps in this thread several times and have been trying for 2 months, with no luck at all.

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shard · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:16 am Post subject:

all of the patches to enable direct rendering on a IGP 320/340M have been checked into dri-cvs. Head over to

http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/

and check it out. I'm using a 2.6.2 kernel (vanilla/unpatched) with dri-cvs and am getting ~550fps in glxgears.
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tolly · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

I've got 3d working, however in the default window size of glxgears, I only get 200FPS. Is this ok? I am wondering why everyone else get ~450. I have an IGP320M using 64Mb of my DDR.

Is thjs normal, or can I increase it?

Tolly

If you need to see my logs, please ask.

Gentoo 1.4
2.6.3-rc2-love2
XFree86 4.3.99.16

Squinky86 · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:56 am Post subject: Re: Got GL working

tolly · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

Yeah, I def. have GL working, but I was curious as to why other laptops with their integrated graphics are getting ~2.5x my glxgears. When I am compiling @ ~100% CPU, I still get ~200FPS, so I know its not getting bogged down by my processor. I know that glxgears is not a good indicator, but any ideas?

(for all those having problems, I complely removed all versions of X, including the bits that portage doesn't remove, and it worked.)

Tolly

amigafan · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

If your synaptics touchpad doesn't work as expected after a switch from xfree4.3 to 4.3.99xx simply do an "emerge synaptics". In my case the tip to click feature and the scrolling doesn't work - now it does

Enderson · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:23 am Post subject:

The xfree-drm in portage doesn't support kernel 2.6.

when the IGP 320M will be avaliable in the xfree-drm with 2.6 support?
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_danno · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 17 Location: Michigan, USA

hey guys,

i was wondering if someone who got their 340M working using a love-sources kernel could help a newbie out and put up like a condensed howto of what they did? looking through this whole thread, theres so many different things going on i don't know what to do. thanks a lot

mattix · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

Just now got it working!

Used the patched xfree-4.3.99-16 ebuild. Used latest mm-sources kernel (2.6.3-mm3), with agpgart, ati agp, and radeon all compiled as modules, and I use the kernel radeon module, not the patched xfree one.

One thing that I've not seen mentioned, the agpgart and ati_agp (or whatever agp module you use) MUST be loaded BEFORE the radeon module. I just now figured that out. So in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I have agpgart first, then ati_agp, then radeon.

Enderson · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:18 am Post subject:

I installed 2.6.3-mm4 and the patched xfree-4.3.99.16 and it's working, but I only get
~200fps with glxgears, I can play Quake3 but not the best performance.
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