Via unichrome, DRI not working (once again)

[quetzal2005]

Hi everybody,

I have followed thousands of HOWTO, read every single manual and so one, but my X are not getting DRI in anyway.

If I look to me /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see the following:

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(II) VIA(0): direct rendering enabled

Which seems to be ok. But if I do startx and I run glxinfo | grep direct...

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direct rendering: No

My glxgears run just at 70 fps...

The only strange message in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the following:

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****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xf0000000 e: 0xf4000000 correcting

Can somebody help me?

More useful info:
X version: 6.8.99.15
Kernel: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2

[bocacorazon]

The same path (seen every howto) the same xorg version, and the same results, down to the same error message on /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

The only thing I can add is that I have the K8M800 chipset.
Is direct rendering perhaps one of the things not yet supported for the chipset?

Bummer.

[chunderbunny]

Just to be sure, you are loading the dri module in your xorg.conf, right?

[rinnan]

I am having exactly the same problem with exactly the same symptoms, I have an Epia MII12000 which runs on the CLE266 chipset. I am in fact loading "dri" in my xorg.conf.

[chrisaw]

*bump*

Anyone found a solution to this problem?

[Mark Karnowski]

I had an entry for dri permissions in xorg.conf, but dri didn't work until I changed the actual permissions on /dev/dri/card0 to 666. Now i get an enabled result of "yes" and glxgears run at 400 fps or better. I could probably make the permissions more restrictive; I'll figure this out and submit another message.

Hope this helps!

Mark

[triablo]

*bump again*

i'm just another one having the exact same problem, on the exact same setup. newest xorg, all drivers loaded, 2.6.15, etc)

the above solution didn't really work for me. so i was kinda wondering if you could explain the "entry for dri permissions in xorg.conf"?

do i need to set that in order for it to work?

- Thanks in advance
-- Bjørn

[Mark Karnowski]

Bjorn,

Reference this link:

http://www.xfree86.org/current/DRI6.html#10

I have a k8m800 board, and am using the via modules in Xorg 7.O and the via related kernel modules in 2.6.14. I am working on a how-to, which I will post when I am finished. In the meantime, here is my xorg.conf (machine specific, but it might help) :

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "KDS"
ModelName "XF-9e"
HorizSync 30-96
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "VBEModes" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoRAM" # <i>
#Option "ActiveDevice" # [<str>]
#Option "LCDDualEdge" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusWidth" # [<str>]
#Option "Center" # [<bool>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForcePanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDotCrawl" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDeflicker" # <i>
#Option "TVType" # [<str>]
#Option "TVOutput" # [<str>]
#Option "DisableVQ" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRIXINERAMA" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableIRQ" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnableAGPDMA" "True"
#Option "NoAGPFor2D" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "via"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640X480"
EndSubSection
EndSection


Regards,
Mark

[triablo]

Thanks a lot for your reply, Mark.
So i understand you are using modular (7.0) X11?
maybe i should try that. i'll try out your config settings when i get home. cheers, and sorry for the delayed reply