[SOLVED] No DRM&xv with x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati on HD4650

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ranger719 · Post by **ranger719** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:59 am

Hi all,

I am very excited about the new open source ati driver because fglrx is unusable and crashes when I resume my machine or just watch a movie.. But.. I have no DRM and hence no xvideo-support (which prevents me from watching videos in fullscreen, except for the ugly sdl mode):

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xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 no adaptors present

My Video-card is a fairly new Ati Radeon 4650 HD and I am on ~amd64.

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02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]

Here's what my X-Server logs:

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drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:02:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
...and so on...

Some more info:
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati 6.12.1-r1
x11-base/xorg-x11 7.4
x11-base/xorg-server 1.5.3-r5
x11-libs/libdrm 2.4.5
media-libs/mesa 7.4
The drm- and radeon-module are loaded (dmesg: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810)

And I am using x11-base/x11-drm version 20090320. The in-kerne-modules won't work either, and afaik they are too old and will work with 2.6.30. Here's my kernel config:

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cat .config|grep -i "agp\|drm"
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
# CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_DRM is not set

Here's my xorg.conf device- and dri-section:

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Section "Device"
  Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
  Driver      "ati"
  Option      "BackingStore" "true"
  BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
  Option      "DRI" "true"
  Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

My system is up to date and I have no clue what I missed. Or is this card just not (yet) supported? Any ideas?

poly_poly-man · Post by **poly_poly-man** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:26 am

you probably did not switch branches correctly...

uninstall and rmmod all drm-related stuff...

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm
cd drm
git checkout -b r6xx-r7xx-support origin/r6xx-r7xx-support
cd linux-core
make radeon.o drm.o
cp radeon.ko drm.ko /lib/modules/YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/char/drm

then modprobe radeon and drm and restart X.

MasterX · Post by **MasterX** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:06 am

ranger719 wrote:
My system is up to date and I have no clue what I missed. Or is this card just not (yet) supported? Any ideas?

Since your card is fairly new, I would suggest to use the radeonHD driver and not the radeon. This drivers is in the portage.

ranger719 · Post by **ranger719** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:24 pm

poly_poly-man wrote:you probably did not switch branches correctly...

uninstall and rmmod all drm-related stuff...

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm
cd drm
git checkout -b r6xx-r7xx-support origin/r6xx-r7xx-support
cd linux-core
make radeon.o drm.o
cp radeon.ko drm.ko /lib/modules/YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/char/drm

then modprobe radeon and drm and restart X.

I did that, but somehow messed something up. I tried it again and now I have xvideo, yeah! Thank you.
Your guide misses one step, though:

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git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm
cd drm
git checkout -b r6xx-r7xx-support origin/r6xx-r7xx-support
./autogen.sh
cd linux-core
make radeon.o drm.o
cp radeon.ko drm.ko /lib/modules/YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/char/drm (I just copied them over the x11-base/x11-drm).

Thanks again.

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:41 pm

isn't drm is graphic acceleration? if so, nither the radeon and radeonhd drivers support it for your card yet.

ranger719 · Post by **ranger719** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:50 pm

DaggyStyle wrote:isn't drm is graphic acceleration? if so, nither the radeon and radeonhd drivers support it for your card yet.

Yes and no? 2D accleration and xvideo depend on DRM. But the current Radeon-DRM status does not yet support 3D, but 2D and xv. Is that true?

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dmesg |grep -i drm
[   97.991668] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   98.078345] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080613 on minor 0
[   98.078429] [drm] Used old pci detect: framebuffer loaded
[  111.232985] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[  111.248645] [drm] Loading RV730 PFP Microcode
[  111.248666] [drm] Loading RV730 CP Microcode
[  111.263718] [drm] Resetting GPU
[  111.263779] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs

DRM now recognizes my card, so I suppose I can say I have at least some kind of DRM support?!

But you are right, 3D accleration is still not there.

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:56 pm

2d acc is fully supported in radeon and radeonhd, I would recommand you use radeonhd cause of the other features it supports which better suites you card

ranger719 · Post by **ranger719** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:23 pm

DaggyStyle wrote:2d acc is fully supported in radeon and radeonhd, I would recommand you use radeonhd cause of the other features it supports which better suites you card

The "Is that true? "-question applied to the drm-depency part.

Thanks for your suggestion, but I'll stick with radeon because it supports all features that I need right now and radeonhd is more a testbed. And according to http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature the differences are marginal (I can live without "Console restore" for a while and "Suspend Support" works [for me]).

poly_poly-man · Post by **poly_poly-man** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:45 pm

radeonhd is not actually good at this point - radeon is where all the new actual development is happening - radeonhd is kind of a playpen of sorts, with code that's different.

r600 and r700 are better supported by radeon at this point. The drm provides an interface for the 2d and video accel.

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:27 am

poly_poly-man wrote:radeonhd is not actually good at this point - radeon is where all the new actual development is happening - radeonhd is kind of a playpen of sorts, with code that's different.

r600 and r700 are better supported by radeon at this point. The drm provides an interface for the 2d and video accel.

how is that?, I was under the impression that it was the other way around

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