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linuxgod

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 50

ATI Xpress 1250

hi all!
here is my trouble:

I have an integrated Ati Xpress 1250 (RS600) video and some problems with it in ArchLinux...
I tried xf86-video-radeonhd driver which , as it was said on the official site, fully supports my card, but it does NOT work properly!
Then i typed Xorg -configure and edited some lines in cfg as following:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "drm"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "record"
    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "en"
    Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol" "auto"
    Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
    Option "DRI" "on"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeonhd"
    VendorName  "All"
    BoardName   "All"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes "1280x800"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Xorg works perfectly, but without dri, because drm fails to identify my card :
xorg log --> 

...
(II) RADEONHD(0): Unknown card detected: 0x7942:0x144D:0xC034.
(--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an RS600 on an unidentified card
...
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:0000:01:05.0
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
...
(EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen("radeon", "pci:0000:01:05.0") failed.
(WW) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIPreInit: Version check failed. Disabling DRI.

So it is only 150 fps in glxgears...
can u help me to solve the problem, please?

Last edited by linuxgod (2009-05-10 07:50:25)

esters

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 173

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Try this with the radeonhd driver

linuxgod

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 50

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Try this with the radeonhd driver

thanks!!!
I tried it, with radeonhd and radeonhd-git, but all I get is only black and white stripes on my display
Fortunately, when i use both drm-git and xf86-video-ati / ati-git it ENABLES DRI and practically everything works !!!

Driver says its X1200 (R300), but in fact its Xpress 1250 (RS600)
Now I got 270 fps in glxgears, but it's too slow for games and other things!

So, the problem is in radeonhd driver which supports my device but does NOT work properly with it.............

Last edited by linuxgod (2009-05-07 16:51:13)

esters

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 173

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

I have the same graphics card, acceleration works with the r6xx-r7xx drm module and xf86-video-ati driver using stock ati-dri package, I get about 300fps in glxgears.

Last edited by esters (2009-05-07 17:07:41)

linuxgod

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 50

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

I have the same graphics card, DRI works with the r6xx-r7xx drm module and xf86-video-ati driver using stock ati-dri package, I get about 300fps in glxgears.

Yes, I use r6xx-r7xx drm module and xf86-video-ati and ati-dri too.
But i think 300 fps is also very slow for this card.
On proprietary drv I got about 1200 fps

here's what  i've got using opensource drivers;;;

1300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 259.900 FPS

Last edited by linuxgod (2009-05-07 17:39:00)

krisvek

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Registered: 2008-04-19

Posts: 20

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Ah, then you are obviously not aware that the performance of the open source drivers do not compare to that of the proprietary drivers when it comes to 3d.

Obligatory "yet".

chillu

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Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 33

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

I have the exact same graphics card in my new Toshiba Satellite too and I've run into a couple of issues as well.

I installed the xf86-video-ati and ati-dri packages and followed the steps in the ArchWiki on ATI
but whenever I run a hwd -s my Video driver is displayed as xf86-video-vesa and UT2004 runs
*very* slowly.. even the menus and startup. I tried pacman  -R on the vesa package but it doesn't
seem to be installed according to pacman.

So I have the following questions:
1. Which is the right set of drivers I want to be using? (I'm not really concerned about using/not using proprietary drivers as much as being able to run UT2004 as well as is possible in Linux given my hardware setup.) AFAIK the options are catalyst, xf86-video-radeonhd, xf86-video-ati
2. How do I install those drivers in place of the xf86-video-vesa driver that seems to have taken its place by default.

*****Output from hwd -s*********
  Video      : RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] server: Xorg (vesa) 
  Driver     : xf86-video-vesa   module: -
******************************

Hoping this doesn't count as thread hijacking

Last edited by chillu (2009-05-10 05:47:51)

linuxgod

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 50

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Now I've got about 530 fps in glxgears, but its 2 times slower than proprietary...
I launched hwd -xa and simply replaced line "vesa" with "ati"...
But this time my CPU was hot and worked at full speed..so the problem is somewhere between drivers and laptop CPU load......

I want to move on Proprietary but I don't know how, because version 9.3 supports my card but does NOT support kernel version > 2.28 and Xorg version > 1.5!!!
(I have 2.29 kernel and Xorg 1.6.1)

Last edited by linuxgod (2009-05-10 09:50:44)

scorp

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Registered: 2009-03-01

Posts: 35

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Hello,

I have a notebook with Xpress 1150 and using open source drivers since about Januar. As I switched from proprietary driver to xf86-video-ati, framerate decreased from ~1500fps to ~1300fps. It was something I could live with, but since xorg server 1.6 I have ~300fps, exactly as noticed here! All log files are OK, glxinfo says direct rendering is on, but performance is suffering badly.

For me it's a bug, which I would submit, but I don't know if it's in the server or in the ati module...

linuxgod

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 50

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Hello,

I have a notebook with Xpress 1150 and using open source drivers since about Januar. As I switched from proprietary driver to xf86-video-ati, framerate decreased from ~1500fps to ~1300fps. It was something I could live with, but since xorg server 1.6 I have ~300fps, exactly as noticed here! All log files are OK, glxinfo says direct rendering is on, but performance is suffering badly.

For me it's a bug, which I would submit, but I don't know if it's in the server or in the ati module...

It's 100% Xorg-server bug!

Bhran

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2011-09-29

Posts: 52

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Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Sorry for reviving this but, can I ask, how is the compatibility of these drivers with Gnome 3, would it worth the shot to try them?

Last edited by Bhran (2011-12-05 02:02:40)

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: ATI Xpress 1250

Bhran,

• Forum Etiquette: Thread Hijacking

• Forum Etiquette: Necro-Bumping

Closing.

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