radeon+kms define firmware? [solved]

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909

hello.
a bit of background, from the introduction of kms, I've alway had problems with my chip, in previous versions it would have hardfreeze with or without artifacts or softfreeze(with the latter and former, I did had display but it froze after some time). about previous versions, the devs are drm told me that they have a bug with my chip that causes the freeze and that they can't seem to solve it.
now for the problem, I'm using gs 2.6.33, after another user asked about how to introduce the bin files into the kernel, I've started to wonder if my problems were because of missing firmware, so I've inserted my chip's firmware to the kernel, compiled, copied and rebooted, kms is loading but the console buffer isn't. also, when running glxinfo, I still get the irq not enabled msg, so I've tried to insert the microcode firmware and I get this:

Herring42 · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:28 am Post subject:

Unmask and emerge x11-drivers/radeon-ucode

The firmware is no longer shipped with the kernel.
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DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909

Herring42 · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:49 am Post subject:

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909

my current setup consists of all three and it compiles well. nevermind, solved
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Pleirosei · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 13

hello, while editing my kernel according to the handbook for setting up X, i get this error: No rule to make target 'firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin, is there anyway to fix this? I have already emerged radeon-ucode as the handbook has said, what should I do?

wrc1944 · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:05 pm Post subject:

I'm suddenly running into this with simply recompiling 2.6.38-rc2. I already had 2.6.38-rc2 installed and working, but needed to recompile it trying to solve some alsa sound related problems. I loaded the old config file (that worked fine, KMS included) with make xconfig, made the alsa adjustments, and proceeded to do make bzImage as I've done thousands of times for years, and suddenly get this:

Spidey · Apprentice Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 269

I'm using zen-sources and I have the same problem. I configure the .config to look for firmwares on /lib/firmware, but make just ignores it. I don't know what to do. I'll copy the relevant firmware to the firmware folder inside the kernel sources, but I don't like this.

edit: gentoo-sources works alright, just set the firmware folder to /lib/firmware and then load radeon/my_fw.bin. zen-sources, though...

MarSoft · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 5 Location: Москва

As for me, problem was that I didn't change CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR from "firmware" to "/lib/firmware".