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turska

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Registered: 2007-04-27

Posts: 13

No direct rendering with open source ati drivers

I followed the instructions at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI and tried searching the forums, but didn't find a solution so I decided to post here.

Uploaded these to pastebin because of the character limit.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf http://pastebin.archlinux.org/24974
/var/log/Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.archlinux.org/24976
/usr/bin/glxinfo http://pastebin.archlinux.org/24977

Thanks in advance.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 1,872

Re: No direct rendering with open source ati drivers

There has never been DRI support for Mach64 in Arch, as long as I've been here. It probably won't make much sense anyway, I mean those cards have at most 8 MB and almost no 3d capabilities to speak of.

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: No direct rendering with open source ati drivers

There has never been DRI support for Mach64 in Arch

This is true, but you can always add it, as I do. Check out the code from git here, build and install, and that gives you the kernel module for mach64 DRM. Then rebuild xf86-video-ati with mach64 support - our xorg maintainer removed it from the stock package a while back.

turska

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Registered: 2007-04-27

Posts: 13

Re: No direct rendering with open source ati drivers

This is true, but you can always add it, as I do. Check out the code from git here, build and install, and that gives you the kernel module for mach64 DRM. Then rebuild xf86-video-ati with mach64 support - our xorg maintainer removed it from the stock package a while back.

Thanks for the advice.

I managed to build the DRM, and the Xorg log indicates that it works.

Homewer, loading the mach64 driver fails:

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/mach64_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/mach64_dri.so: undefined symbol: __dlopen)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

Any ideas on how I could succesfully build it?

Obi-Lan

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 179

Re: No direct rendering with open source ati drivers

I took DRM drivers from freedesktop.org git and xorg driver I made with ABS by editing xf86-video-ati PKGBUILD (ver 6.8.0). It seems to work for now...

Last edited by Obi-Lan (2008-03-08 00:13:07)

bandan

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 8

Re: No direct rendering with open source ati drivers

I took DRM drivers from freedesktop.org git and xorg driver I made with ABS by editing xf86-video-ati PKGBUILD (ver 6.8.0). It seems to work for now...

Hi,
would you mind sharing that PKGBUILD?

bandan