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batot

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From: Poland

Registered: 2012-08-15

Posts: 47

drm loading wrong fimware microcode

I have problme with load property sumo microcode
$ lspci |grep VGA
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320]

$ uname -a
Linux E450 3.10.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 30 11:30:06 CEST 2013
x86_64 GNU/Linux

load wrong firmware:

$ dmesg | egrep -i 'firmware|microcode'
[    8.109739] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x05000101
[    8.253997] microcode: CPU0: new patch_level=0x05000119
[    8.254075] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x05000101
[    8.260181] microcode: CPU1: new patch_level=0x05000119
[    8.260490] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00
<tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[    8.389940] [drm] Loading PALM Microcode

but for HD6320 must load firmware SUMO microcode !!!
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon
What can I du now? When do you correct this?

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.34.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: User requested driver 'vdpau'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/vdpau_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_SUMO.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
Floating point exception (core dumped)
[bartosz@E450 ~]$

$ glxinfo |grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM
    GL_MESA_texture_signed_rgba, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp,
    GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,

Best Regards
PS: A was send email to tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk but for this day don't get reply information about how repair this problem.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: drm loading wrong fimware microcode

$ lspci |grep VGA
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320]

According to the gentoo wiki page, Wrestler is a PALM chipset , not a SUMO one.

PALM and SUMO share several firmware files, it seems possible VDPAU doesn't detect your card correctly.

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