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vidar

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Registered: 2009-04-08

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Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

Hello!

I have some trouble getting this card  to work.
Before I go on i want to mention, that I used a nVidia graphics card before but I removed the nvidia and nvidia-utils packages.

I also very much appreciate the OpenSource Drivers that are developed but I need the 3D acceleration (ony if somebody wanted to give me that advice ), therefore I installed catalyst + catalyst-utils  (version 9.4) like described in the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … yst_driver
I use the stock kernel (version: 2.6.28-ARCH) .  But when I call aticonfig I get:

aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

(I loaded the module with modprobe fglrx and added it to modules array in /etc/rc.conf before)

dmesg | grep fglrx:

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. 
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1898 MBytes. [fglrx] vendor: 1002 device: 9460 count: 1 
[fglrx] ioport: bar 4, base 0xc800, size: 0x100 [fglrx] Kernel PAT support detected, disabling driver built-in PAT support 
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.59.2 [Mar 13 2009] with 1 minors

startx:

(WW) fglrx: No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@6:0:1) found
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (8) is not supported by fglrx driver
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitVisual failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
SetVBEMode failed
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

lspci:

06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9460
06:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc HD48x0 audio

Would be nice if anybody can tell me how to fix this

Last edited by vidar (2009-04-09 00:59:14)

vidar

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Registered: 2009-04-08

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

Please, has anyone a clue?

Cheesebaron

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Registered: 2008-10-31

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

What does your xorg.conf look like?

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Kilz

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

Do you have the testing repo enabled and/or xorg 1.6.0 installed?

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vidar

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Registered: 2009-04-08

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

Hi thank you for replying, here is my xorg.conf:
(I installed the vesa driver for now to get my display working, normaly i would put fglrx as driver)

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    #Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "drm"
    ###Load  "GLCore"
    ###Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "de"
    Option      "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
    Option      "AutoRepeat" "500 50"
    Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option      "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
    Option      "Buttons" "7"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Eizo"
    ModelName    "FlexScan S2031W"
    HorizSync    31.0 - 65.0
    VertRefresh  59.0 - 61.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Radeon HD 4890"
    BusID       "PCI:6:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "DRI"
#    Mode 0666
#EndSection

I tried it before without testing, but now I upgraded my whole system with the testing repository so now I have the xorg-server 1.6.0

Last edited by vidar (2009-04-09 16:01:50)

PiklesOnFire

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Registered: 2009-04-10

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

I'm brand new to the fourms, not so new to Arch.
I've written a post about this on my blog, feel free to check it out: https://piklesonfire.wordpress.com

The short answer is you need to install the catalyst-old and catalyst-utils-old packages from the AUR instead of the catalyst drivers.

There is a thread on Sabayon linux's forum about this issue also, so I know it's not Arch.
The forum had a link posted that seems to pinpoint the problem, although, it doesn't actually mention the issue in the linked site: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … gacy&num=1

Hope this helps someone else out.

[edit]I have an ATI Mobility X1400 btw[/edit]

Last edited by PiklesOnFire (2009-04-10 02:41:28)

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vidar

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Registered: 2009-04-08

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

I tried the old catalyst driver before - no luck
Im now using the xf86-video-ati-git  OpenSource Driver, it seems that I have to go on without 3D Acceleration... :-/
Maybe my card is just too new for support, I hope that AMD keeps their promise to support their devices fast on linux
(or even better somebody implements 3D Acceleration in the OpenSource driver)

Last edited by vidar (2009-04-10 12:20:46)

MazurMe

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Registered: 2009-02-22

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

Look at this: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … 4890&num=1

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vidar

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Registered: 2009-04-08

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Re: Ati Radeon HD 4890 & Stock Kernel

Yeah I got it to work!  it was a stupid oversight, I forgot to add "DefaultDepth 24" to my Screen section in xorg.conf
However now I too got this well known Watermark "AMD Unsupported Hardware" in the lower right side of the screen.
Does anybody know how to get rid of it aside of waiting for AMD to support it?

@MazurMe: Yes it works exactly as they described on the site you posted. 3D acceleration works for all games except those with a Quake 3 like engine (tested it with the games Tremulous and Savage 2)

PS:  I'm also programming for the Ogre3D Engine (I want to make a little game project), but it seems that Ogre is too not compatible with this driver,  :-/

Last edited by vidar (2009-04-10 15:11:18)