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handy

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-03-26

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

kernel26-pm is a great news to me~~
by "echo 2 > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"
(power_state 2 of my card is battery mode)
I finally avoid the annoying endless fan noise~~

Is kernel26-pm = to kernel26-drm-radeon-testing as mentioned in the OP?

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gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

kernel26-pm is a great news to me~~
by "echo 2 > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"
(power_state 2 of my card is battery mode)
I finally avoid the annoying endless fan noise~~

The repos one? Its greatful!!

I can't resist the temptation of throwing off catalyst.

Perry3D

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Registered: 2008-03-20

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

kernel26-pm is a great news to me~~
by "echo 2 > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"
(power_state 2 of my card is battery mode)
I finally avoid the annoying endless fan noise~~

Is kernel26-pm = to kernel26-drm-radeon-testing as mentioned in the OP?

kernel26-pm = http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … esting-pm2
kernel26-drm-radeon-testing = http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … on-testing

handy

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-03-26

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

kernel26-pm is a great news to me~~
by "echo 2 > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"
(power_state 2 of my card is battery mode)
I finally avoid the annoying endless fan noise~~

Is kernel26-pm = to kernel26-drm-radeon-testing as mentioned in the OP?

kernel26-pm = http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … esting-pm2
kernel26-drm-radeon-testing = http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … on-testing

Thanks Perry, I needed that.

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handy

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Registered: 2008-03-26

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

kernel26-pm is a great news to me~~
by "echo 2 > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"
(power_state 2 of my card is battery mode)
I finally avoid the annoying endless fan noise~~

I'm wondering whether the HD2600Pro in the iMac is capable of using PM?

I'm using the new kernel26-pm & still get the same results as when using any other pm kernel:

[drm] State 0  (default)
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     3 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 600000/650000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 600000/650000
[drm]         2 engine/memory: 600000/650000
[drm] State 1 Performance
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     3 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 600000/650000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 600000/650000
[drm]         2 engine/memory: 600000/650000

When I try the following I get permission denied:

handy ~  $  sudo echo 2 > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state
bash: /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state: Permission denied

I wonder whether some GPUs have been set up to not work with PM?  If anyone was going to do it for some strange reason, Apple would certainly be capable of it.

Still the thing is quiet & doesn't run hot, hmm...

Last edited by handy (2010-04-17 13:20:37)

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endlessroad1991

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Registered: 2010-02-02

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@handy:
    try "su" and then "echo X > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"
    make sure X is a valid status id!
    seems your card has only status 0 and 1, so X can only be 0 or 1 ??
    my card, mobility radoen hd 4570, part of "dmesg | grep drm" is:

[drm] 7 Power State(s)
[drm] State 0  (default)
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     3 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 500000/800000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 500000/800000
[drm]         2 engine/memory: 500000/800000
[drm] State 1 Performance 
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     Single display only
[drm]     2 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 220000/300000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 300000/500000
[drm] State 2 Battery 
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     Single display only
[drm]     3 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 220000/300000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 300000/300000
[drm]         2 engine/memory: 300000/300000
[drm] State 3 Performance 
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     2 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 300000/800000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 300000/800000
[drm] State 4 Battery 
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     3 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 300000/400000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 300000/400000
[drm]         2 engine/memory: 300000/400000
[drm] State 5  
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     3 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 450000/500000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 450000/500000
[drm]         2 engine/memory: 450000/500000
[drm] State 6  
[drm]     16 PCIE Lanes
[drm]     3 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]         0 engine/memory: 300000/400000
[drm]         1 engine/memory: 300000/400000
[drm]         2 engine/memory: 300000/400000

Last edited by endlessroad1991 (2010-04-17 15:51:11)

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@handy:
try "su" and then "echo X > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"

Sorry for unrelated stuff but sudo has this feature already:
sudo -s "echo X > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state"

Also don't lack the explanation: sudo only runs the first command as root which happens to be "echo". The > acts as another command for the shell which is not run as root and therefore you have no permission.

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handy

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

By using either of the two methods above I get to add the following two lines to the end of the output from dmesg | grep drm :

[drm] Setting: e: 60000
[drm] Setting: m: 65000

So I think that nothing is really changing on my machine & it is likely the way the Apple built it to be. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Last edited by handy (2010-04-18 02:42:35)

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andrek

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Registered: 2007-12-27

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

How's the power management working on kernel26-pm mentioned above? Is it as good as catalyst one? ( i'm using mobility 4570, i'm going to test these things out soon )

handy

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 719

Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

How's the power management working on kernel26-pm mentioned above? Is it as good as catalyst one? ( i'm using mobility 4570, i'm going to test these things out soon )

I think it depends on the hardware you have at this stage anyway.

I also think that you will get satisfactory results.

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gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Hell, is it OK?

$ dmesg | grep drm
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
[drm] register mmio base: 0x94300000
[drm] register mmio size: 65536
[drm] Clocks initialized !
[drm] 4 Power State(s)
[drm] State 0  (default)
[drm]   1 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]           0 engine: 500000
[drm] State 1 Performance 
[drm]   1 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]           0 engine: 500000
[drm] State 2 Battery 
[drm]   1 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]           0 engine: 200000
[drm] State 3  
[drm]   1 Clock Mode(s)
[drm]           0 engine: 500000
[drm] radeon: power management initialized
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M
[drm] RAM width 32bits DDR
[drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[drm] Loading RS780 Microcode
[drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[drm] Enabling audio support
[drm] Default TV standard: NTSC
[drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[drm] Connector 0:
[drm]   VGA
[drm]   DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
[drm] Connector 1:
[drm]   LVDS
[drm]   DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_LVTMA
[drm] fb mappable at 0x80141000
[drm] vram apper at 0x80000000
[drm] size 4096000
[drm] fb depth is 24
[drm]    pitch is 5120
fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.2.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Looks good, doesn't it? Your card has two states: if you unplug your laptop it should go from 500Mhz to 200Mhz.
If you are using kernel26-pm you can test it with /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_state. I don't know if it will switch automaticly.

Can i post your repo?

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Of course. I just took the update btw.

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

OK

The repository switched to another webspace (tanks to gtklocker )

[ati]
Server = http://tiven.org/gtklocker/radeon-repo/x86_64/

Now you can browse it. Maybe gtklocker will offer a repo for i686.

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Perry3D, we should probably rename the repo to [radeon]

I'll start with the i686 repo when the chroot installation is finished

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I renamed the repository to radeon:

[radeon]
Server = http://tiven.org/gtklocker/radeon-repo/x86_64/

Pls use this repository. I will stop updating the dropbox repo.

Pik

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Registered: 2009-11-15

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Did the new repo vanish? I get an 404 error message.

Last edited by Pik (2010-04-23 18:50:20)

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

No, i just tested it. Works like it should.

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@Perry3D, I removed some old git files, but I dunno if its the problem. Please, rebuild the db and upload it again
@Pik, you're right. We are transferring files to a new ssh (root) controlled server, so please stand and wait to tar/untar.

Last edited by gtklocker (2010-04-23 19:21:46)

TemplarGR

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Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 61

Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Perry your repo is great and i appreciate your efforts. Could you add some lib32 versions of your packages for all of us who would like to use 32 bit apps like bin32-wine and bin32-google-earth?

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Hey, it would be painful to include such files. You can use the adslgr32/adslgr64 repos for this work, these contain lib32 and the programs you mention.

Have a nice day.

TemplarGR

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Hey, it would be painful to include such files. You can use the adslgr32/adslgr64 repos for this work, these contain lib32 and the programs you mention.

Have a nice day.

Please explain to me why it would be painful? From my understanding, they are simply 686 versions with some minor modifications. So if you intent to create a 686 repo, it shouldn't be so difficult to add lib32 packages.

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Freeze.

I told you. Use adslgr64 repo by simply adding this line in your pacman.conf

[adslgr64]
Server = http://adslgr64.tiven.org/archlinux/x86_64

It has all the programs & libs you need.

I say painful, because there is no reason to bother with that. The repo has completely different orientation.

TemplarGR

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Registered: 2009-12-16

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Freeze.

I told you. Use adslgr64 repo by simply adding this line in your pacman.conf

[adslgr64]
Server = http://adslgr64.tiven.org/archlinux/x86_64

It has all the programs & libs you need.

I say painful, because there is no reason to bother with that. The repo has completely different orientation.

I think you didn't actually understand what i asked for. In order to use 32 bit 3D apps in 64bit Arch you need lib32mesa libraries. Those available at community repo are same versions with extra, currently 7.7.1 . I am asking for a lib32-mesa-git(and all other packages), in order to use mesa 7-9 devel with 32 bit programs.

I looked at this repo, and there is no such packages in there, although it has some programs i use and i will keep it.

Last edited by TemplarGR (2010-04-24 07:21:50)

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Tell me what packages you need exactly and when the server comes up, I'll upload them