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Ajunta

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From: Moscow

Registered: 2009-05-31

Posts: 58

[SOLVED] Problems with ATI video driver after update.

Hi!

After last update compositing effects in KDE won't work.

#  lspci | grep VGA                                                                                                                       
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 2600XT]

So, I decided to enable KMS.

Package xf86-video-ati is installed.

/boot/grub/menu.lst

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c5429962-553a-4bd3-a6dc-5b3a44cf4ab7 ro radeon.modeset=1

/etc/rc.conf

MODULES=(fuse usblp radeon)

And after reboot:

$  dmesg | egrep "drm|radeon"
Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c5429962-553a-4bd3-a6dc-5b3a44cf4ab7 ro radeon.modeset=1
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c5429962-553a-4bd3-a6dc-5b3a44cf4ab7 ro radeon.modeset=1
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
radeon 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
[drm] register mmio base: 0xF5000000
[drm] register mmio size: 65536
[drm] Clocks initialized !
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M
[drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
radeon 0000:01:00.0: irq 29 for MSI/MSI-X
[drm] radeon: using MSI.
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[drm] Loading RV630 Microcode
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_pfp.bin
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_me.bin
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R600_rlc.bin
r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R600_rlc.bin"
[drm:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

Is this right that the first two files RV630_pfp.bin and RV630_me.bin has RV630 prefix, but the R600_rlc.bin hasn't?

2.6.33-ARCH
X -version                                                                                                                                     
X.Org X Server 1.7.6   

I tried to use Early KMS start, result is the same. Also, I have no xorg.conf file.

Last edited by Ajunta (2010-04-11 18:18:24)

Coacher

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Re: [SOLVED] Problems with ATI video driver after update.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95017

Ajunta

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From: Moscow

Registered: 2009-05-31

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] Problems with ATI video driver after update.

Thanks! Installing http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33016 solved the problem.

bkadoctaj

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Registered: 2010-05-02

Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED] Problems with ATI video driver after update.

Thanks! Installing http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33016 solved the problem.

I had the same error when running xinit.  I intended to install this package, but the most recent comment noted that the testing/linux-firmware package made that package unnecessary.  Indeed it did.