Arch Linux

ibnpaul

Member

Registered: 2007-11-06

Posts: 7

Need a bit of help using the FOSS ATI mach64 DRM module

Hello all,

I have a laptop with an ATI Rage M1 AGP, which uses the mach64 module for DRM.  I have gotten it compiled successfully, but am having trouble enabling DRM, which I know by looking in Xorg.0log, because glxinfo kills my X server for some reason.

Here is a relevant portion of my Xorg.0.log:

(==) ATI(0): Write-combining range (0xf5000000,0x800000)
(II) ATI(0): [drm] SAREA 2200+1208: 3408
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "mach64"
(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
(EE) ATI(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed
(II) ATI(0): Largest offscreen areas (with overlaps):
(II) ATI(0):    1024 x 1279 rectangle at 0,768
(II) ATI(0):    768 x 1280 rectangle at 0,768
(II) ATI(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
        Screen to screen bit blits
        Solid filled rectangles
        8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
        Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
        Solid Lines
        Offscreen Pixmaps
        Setting up tile and stipple cache:
                32 128x128 slots
                10 256x256 slots
(==) ATI(0): Backing store disabled
(==) ATI(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) ATI(0): Direct rendering disabled

If more is needed please let me know.  The mach64 module is loaded:

# lsmod | grep mach64
mach64                 43264  1
drm                   131480  2 mach64

I am using the ati driver-wrapper in my xorg.conf.  Thanks for all your help!!

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Need a bit of help using the FOSS ATI mach64 DRM module

The stock xf86-video-ati package does not support mach64. You need to rebuild it.

lukrop

Member

From: /at/vienna

Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 27

Website

Re: Need a bit of help using the FOSS ATI mach64 DRM module

The stock xf86-video-ati package does not support mach64. You need to rebuild it.

in how far? from which sources?

i'm wondering if it works with the abs PKGBUILD and if yes, which configuration i need to make.

I'm also having a notebook (compaq armada e500) with an ati mobility rage with this mach64 chipset and I want to have DRI.

lukrop

Member

From: /at/vienna

Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 27

Website

Re: Need a bit of help using the FOSS ATI mach64 DRM module

got it working now with tomk's instructions from this thread.