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hedmo · Post by **hedmo** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:51 pm

as the topic.i need some nice faq or help to set a proper setup for my old 9600 (rv350) card.
i am a fglrx user my self so i dont know where to start.it was quite simple the old days but now when gallium,kms
and stuff like that have been made.i feel a bit lost

thank

hedmo

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:57 pm

Recompile the kernel:

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Device Drivers
  Graphics support
    Direct Rendering Manager = Y
      ATI Radeon = Y
        Enable modesetting on radeon by default = Y

Then install the X11 drivers:

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VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r300"
USE="gallium libkms opengl openvg"

emerge -aDNt world && \
eselect mesa set r300 gallium && \
eselect opengl set xorg-x11

dennisn · Post by **dennisn** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:03 pm

Also probably

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 Device Drivers
  Generic Driver Options 
   Userspace firmware loading support
    Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary (CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL)

(Unless you want to worry about initrd or other userspace problems, and probably a long boot-delay resulting from something like 'radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R***_cp.bin"')

VoidMage · Post by **VoidMage** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:28 pm

dennisn wrote:Also probably
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 Device Drivers
  Generic Driver Options 
   Userspace firmware loading support
    Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary (CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL)
(Unless you want to worry about initrd or other userspace problems, and probably a long boot-delay resulting from something like 'radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R***_cp.bin"')

A better advice would be telling how to properly add correct firmware to initramfs - after all, most recent radeon firmware isn't in the kernel anyway.

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:53 pm

Right, for that radeon-ucode needs to be installed, and the kernel needs:

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# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/${CARD}_pfp.bin radeon/${CARD}_me.bin radeon/${CARD}_rlc.bin"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"

No need for an initramfs there.

hedmo · Post by **hedmo** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:06 am

i can not set kms=glx falls.is it some thing i do wrong

the firmware(ucode) dont shows in the kernel and it is drm that bin disable in xorg log.

v_andal · Post by **v_andal** » Mon May 09, 2011 7:46 am

hedmo wrote:i can not set kms=glx falls.is it some thing i do wrong
the firmware(ucode) dont shows in the kernel and it is drm that bin disable in xorg log.

Where do you try to set it and why?

About firmware. Have you modified /usr/src/linux/.config as Ant P. has described? In my case, I've simply included all of the files that were installed.
Ie.

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CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/R700_rlc.bin radeon/BARTS_mc.bin radeon/BARTS_me.bin radeon/BARTS_pfp.bin radeon/BTC_rlc.bin radeon/CAICOS_mc.bin radeon/CAICOS_me.bin radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin radeon/CAYMAN_mc.bin radeon/CAYMAN_me.bin radeon/CAYMAN_pfp.bin radeon/CAYMAN_rlc.bin radeon/CEDAR_me.bin radeon/CEDAR_pfp.bin radeon/CEDAR_rlc.bin radeon/CYPRESS_me.bin radeon/CYPRESS_pfp.bin radeon/CYPRESS_rlc.bin radeon/JUNIPER_me.bin radeon/JUNIPER_pfp.bin radeon/JUNIPER_rlc.bin radeon/PALM_me.bin radeon/PALM_pfp.bin radeon/REDWOOD_me.bin radeon/REDWOOD_pfp.bin radeon/REDWOOD_rlc.bin radeon/SUMO_rlc.bin radeon/TURKS_mc.bin radeon/TURKS_me.bin radeon/TURKS_pfp.bin"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib64/firmware"

pingufunkybeat · Post by **pingufunkybeat** » Tue May 10, 2011 4:56 pm

You don't need external radeon ucode for an rv350 chip. You need it for r600 and later chips.

You don't need initramfs either, compile the firmware into the kernel. Save yourself the headaches.

hedmo · Post by **hedmo** » Fri May 13, 2011 10:42 am

i have manage to get kms and gallium to work in X :

mybox ~ # glxinfo| grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

pingufunkybeat:

i have put the firmarein the kernel and there were R300_cp.bin.
dont know if it helped or not.

there is still some things to do i belive,i am using compiz-fusion via:

compiz-manager

and it does not work.it starts but the screen is corrupt.if i set mesa to classic,X dies.but if i turn off kms and try,it works

the only thing i have found is xorg= :

[ 49376.544] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.

Aquous · Post by **Aquous** » Fri May 13, 2011 1:12 pm

hedmo wrote:i have manage to get kms and gallium to work in X :

mybox ~ # glxinfo| grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

No you didn't, you're on software rendering. Please upload your dmesg to a site like pastebin.com

hedmo · Post by **hedmo** » Fri May 13, 2011 3:15 pm

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/388170/

hedmo · Post by **hedmo** » Sat May 14, 2011 6:11 am

have looked at my xorg log an found more stuff like

1.[ 99337.081] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.

2.[ 49376.544] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.

3.[ 99339.559] (II) RADEON(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/388472/

1.i have set kms inkernel
2.i dont have /dev/dri
3.

Aquous · Post by **Aquous** » Sat May 14, 2011 9:10 am

Disable radeonfb and see if it helps. You need only the radeon driver and the DRI infrastructure; radeonfb will only interfere with KMS.

After that, please post the contents of /proc/mtrr because I think I may see another (unrelated) problem.

hedmo · Post by **hedmo** » Sat May 14, 2011 1:00 pm

its getting some were :

mybox ~ # glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV350
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel (git-2812b60)
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
mybox ~ # cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x000000000 ( 0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 512MB, count=1: write-back
reg02: base=0x0a0000000 ( 2560MB), size= 128MB, count=1: write-back
reg03: base=0x0a8000000 ( 2688MB), size= 64MB, count=1: write-back
reg04: base=0x0ac000000 ( 2752MB), size= 32MB, count=1: write-back
reg05: base=0x0ae000000 ( 2784MB), size= 8MB, count=1: write-back
reg06: base=0x0f0000000 ( 3840MB), size= 128MB, count=1: write-combining
reg07: base=0x0d0000000 ( 3328MB), size= 256MB, count=1: write-combining
mybox ~ #

pingufunkybeat · Post by **pingufunkybeat** » Sun May 15, 2011 6:54 pm

Well, you are successfully running the r300g driver.

Now try some 3d stuff and see how well it works.