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arith

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Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 5

GPU acceleration disabled on RV530 (Radeon X1600 series)

Hello folks,

I got a cheap and rare Radeon X1650 GTO using the RV530 chip, but I can’t use GPU acceleration:

[   13.352860] [drm] Loading R500 Microcode
[   13.806781] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000010001000
[   13.975468] [drm:r100_ring_test] *ERROR* radeon: ring test failed (scratch(0x15E4)=0xCAFEDEAD)
[   13.975475] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon: cp isn't working (-22).
[   13.975481] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-22).
[   13.975485] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
[   14.138268] [drm:r100_cp_fini] *ERROR* Wait for CP idle timeout, shutting down CP.
[   14.300402] [drm] radeon: cp finalized

dmesg | egrep "drm|radeon" — http://pastebin.com/efEc1SaX
ls /lib/firmware/radeon — http://pastebin.com/WVvZQD5C

For X.org I’m using the free xf86-video-ati driver.

I’m actually not sure if the card has the RV530 chip since every of the more common X1650 cards has at least an RV535, but the only difference is that the newer RV535 is 80 nm.

Please help me.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: GPU acceleration disabled on RV530 (Radeon X1600 series)

The ring tests seems to test the communication between cpu and gpu .
Does your mobo have multiple PCI express slots ?
If so, try putting the card in another slot.

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arith

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Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 5

Re: GPU acceleration disabled on RV530 (Radeon X1600 series)

Nope, it’s just one PCI-E slot.