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

Diaz · 2010-09-16 13:03:52

hey people.
just wanto to know, is the info in the first post updated?
i was thinking in testing a more recent build od readeon driver just to see if kde would get a little better and all that stuff, but not sure.
i have a r620 (radeon 3470 i think) and not sure in testing.
Kms works already with stable and i think power saving is working to at least i allows me to put a profile to low.

rp9 · 2010-09-16 17:27:56

I'm currently trying to get evergreen and gallium3d working, but xserver only loads the software rasterizer.
compiled and installed 'aur/ati-dri-git-gallium'.

EDIT: Just found out i have to us the evergreen_accel branch from xf86-video-ati

Last edited by rp9 (2010-09-17 07:42:36)

Perry3D · 2010-09-17 20:52:46

I updated the first post and renamed the thread. I also updated the packages in the repo. Gallium for r600 is working again, but is still slower than the classic driver.

@rp9: Are you sure gallium and evergreen is already working? I think you will get better results with the classic drivers.
Even gallium for the r600/700 chips is still slower than the classic driver (but it works).

splashy · 2010-09-18 11:25:56

Hum please I have already the same problem that I posted here:
In kde the blur effect shows a black texture in place of the blur texture which would be excepting.
I know it's a bug of mesa 7.9-dev but how to fix it because I was waiting long time now...

geodoc · 2010-09-18 14:03:08

rp9 wrote:

EDIT: Just found out i have to us the evergreen_accel branch from xf86-video-ati

Can you tell me how exactly have you done this?Are there any instructions?

geodoc · 2010-09-19 09:38:07

Perry3d, would it be difficult to include evergreen support in your xf86-video-ati-git package?I am refering to 3d acceleration from the evergreen_accel branch.

Last edited by geodoc (2010-09-19 09:40:29)

mhertz · 2010-09-19 13:26:15

@geodoc

If you want to test the evergreen_branch, then there's an AUR git package available: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40105

You can monitor the changelog for the branch here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver … reen_accel

I've just tested it yesterday, but quickly uninstalled it and reverted back to the stable driver, as it didn't work correctly on my HD5450. I could start X and my WM Musca, and urxvt also worked, but when trying to start my browser jumanji, then the entire screen went white and my system would hang completely, so that a hard-reset was needed to get out of it. So I didn't even got to testing how well the acceleration was with the driver.

Maybe you will have better luck than me?

Edit:

Could someone please help me with if im needing to do something to get the aur evergreen driver working?

I can see that the xorg.log first states that the dri2 interface is setup and working and that direct rendering and acceleration is enabled, but then later on I get this error:

[ 1802.430] (EE) AIGLX error: Calling driver entry point failed
[ 1802.431] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[ 1802.431] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
[ 1802.474] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so
[ 1802.474] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0

Thnaks in advance!

Last edited by mhertz (2010-09-19 15:20:53)

prophy · 2010-09-20 11:34:13

Hello,
i installed your packages like you wrote in the first post. I boot from LVM so i wanted to ask if your kernel supports this. Cause although i compiled the hooks with mkinitcpio -p kernel26-drm-radeon-testing. I cant boot with your kernel

Update: Ok, seems i have to include lvm-support in the kernel, not with moduls to boot from lvm. I'll compile it that way now.

Last edited by prophy (2010-09-20 12:23:30)

Cdh · 2010-09-23 18:52:27

Did anyone have success in playing webm videos with firefox beta?
It is <1 fps for me with firefox using 100% cpu on one core and X using 100% on the other core.

mjr · 2010-09-24 20:00:15

Hi all,
I'm a little outdated and i would like to know which is the status of powersaving with the latest versions on Radeon HD 4570 mobile (Dell Studio 1555). If someone has a (little) time to answer, i would be really happy .
Thanks guys!

Neurook · 2010-09-25 00:28:52

Hi,

I'm having some difficulties with using DisplayPort. I've got a Radeon 4890 (770 chip) and it's connected to a Dell U2410.
As soon as KMS kicks in the screen goes dark and into power save mode. Switching to UMS mode lets me keep the picture until i start X, same thing happens.
I started out using two screens, one connected by DVI and one connected by DisplayPort so I thought I'd see if disconnecting the DVI screen would help. It did not.
I've tried the [testing] versions of the driver, linux-firmware and xserver. I have also tried compiling the ATI driver from git. The problem persists.

xrandr gives me: DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

dmesg | grep drm gives me:
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0
[drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[drm] Loading RV770 CP Microcode
[drm] Resetting GPU
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs

No messages regarding "ati", "kms" or "display"

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep Display gives me:

[ 16.005] (II) RADEON(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
[ 16.016] (II) RADEON(0): Output DisplayPort-0 has no monitor section
[ 16.016] (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DisplayPort-0-DP" initialized.
[ 16.018] (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DisplayPort-0" initialized.
[ 16.019] XRANDR name: DisplayPort-0
[ 16.019] Connector: DisplayPort
[ 16.073] (II) RADEON(0): Digital Display Input
[ 16.083] (II) RADEON(0): Digital Display Input
[ 16.100] (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DisplayPort-0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
[ 16.103] (II) RADEON(0): Output: DisplayPort-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
[ 16.157] (II) RADEON(0): Digital Display Input
[ 16.158] (II) RADEON(0): Digital Display Input
[ 16.178] (II) RADEON(0): Output: DisplayPort-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
[ 16.178] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DisplayPort-0
[ 16.178] (II) RADEON(0): Output DisplayPort-0 disconnected
[ 16.178] (**) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (520, 330) mm

Any help would be appreciated.

megawebmaster · 2010-09-25 10:34:10

mjr wrote:

Hi all,
I'm a little outdated and i would like to know which is the status of powersaving with the latest versions on Radeon HD 4570 mobile (Dell Studio 1555). If someone has a (little) time to answer, i would be really happy .
Thanks guys!

I've got this notebook and with drm-radeon-testing kernel from radeon repo and it's drivers everything is working. I've got quite cold and rather quiet laptop now

ijanos · 2010-09-25 11:08:15

megawebmaster wrote:

I've got this notebook and with drm-radeon-testing kernel from radeon repo and it's drivers everything is working. I've got quite cold and rather quiet laptop now

Powersaving should work with the official kernel too.

Cdh · 2010-09-27 00:15:45

May I request a newer build of the kernel and/or the drivers in the repo?
I sometimes get the message

drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.

radeon 0000:02:00.0: r600_cs_track_check:287 mask 0x0000000F | 0x0000000F no cb for 0
radeon 0000:02:00.0: r600_packet3_check:1242 invalid cmd stream 508
[drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !

Doesn't really tell me anything but I'd guess that either the driver or the kernel is too old.

edit: I have also discovered that only youtube webm videos are so slow in firefox, the one on xiph does work really, really smooth, even the 720p version:
http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml
Any solutions?

Last edited by Cdh (2010-09-27 00:20:19)

Perry3D · 2010-09-28 16:13:00

Cdh wrote:

May I request a newer build of the kernel and/or the drivers in the repo?

Sorry, i am in spain for two weeks. Maybe i can wake my home computer and do the job .

Cdh · 2010-09-28 16:28:30

If not, your PKGBUILDS would be cool...

edit: Especially I mean the kernel26-drm-radeon-testing one.. kernel26-drm-git in aur seems outdated...

The rest seems to be in mesa-r600-r700-git (with mesa 7.9 already).

Last edited by Cdh (2010-09-28 20:04:19)

Perry3D · 2010-09-29 14:12:01

Cdh wrote:

If not, your PKGBUILDS would be cool...
edit: Especially I mean the kernel26-drm-radeon-testing one.. kernel26-drm-git in aur seems outdated...
The rest seems to be in mesa-r600-r700-git (with mesa 7.9 already).

Take a look at the first post:

git clone git://gitorious.org/radeon/radeon.git

And i am already updating a new compiled kernel for x86_64...

BigLouis87 · 2010-09-29 14:27:03

I just made a pacman -Syu.... they may have changed xorg version or similar, because now radeon driver doesn't load anymore!
Now I'm under vesa at low and stretched resolution... waiting for a new radeon build

BigLouis87 · 2010-09-29 15:20:14

BigLouis87 wrote:

I just made a pacman -Syu.... they may have changed xorg version or similar, because now radeon driver doesn't load anymore!
Now I'm under vesa at low and stretched resolution... waiting for a new radeon build

temporary fixed installing xf86-video-ati-git from aur (PKGBUILD says it's in conflict with xorg-server 1.9, but it works)

Cdh · 2010-09-29 15:26:53

Perry3D wrote:

Take a look at the first post:
git clone git://gitorious.org/radeon/radeon.git

edit: Ah, I see now. Thanks.

Perry3D wrote:

And i am already updating a new compiled kernel for x86_64...

i686. Will built myself now.

Last edited by Cdh (2010-09-29 15:30:14)

lordheavy · 2010-09-29 17:09:35

Now mesa from git need makedepend to be built, currently you can find it in aur

See http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18199

Perry3D · 2010-09-29 18:27:23

Cdh wrote:

i686. Will built myself now.

Wait. I'm building it right now.

Perry3D · 2010-09-29 19:52:53

lordheavy wrote:

Now mesa from git need makedepend to be built, currently you can find it in aur
See http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18199

I think it is better to install imake from extra :-P

JoKo · 2010-09-30 10:16:10

Cdh wrote:

May I request a newer build of the kernel and/or the drivers in the repo?
I sometimes get the message
drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.
radeon 0000:02:00.0: r600_cs_track_check:287 mask 0x0000000F | 0x0000000F no cb for 0
radeon 0000:02:00.0: r600_packet3_check:1242 invalid cmd stream 508
[drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !
Doesn't really tell me anything but I'd guess that either the driver or the kernel is too old.
edit: I have also discovered that only youtube webm videos are so slow in firefox, the one on xiph does work really, really smooth, even the 720p version:
http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml
Any solutions?

I am also getting similar messages while trying to run TF2 via Wine:

drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.

[  522.859187] radeon 0000:01:00.0: z/stencil with no depth buffer
[  522.859191] radeon 0000:01:00.0: r600_packet3_check:1108 invalid cmd stream 502
[  522.859193] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !

I am using the radeon repo and Zen kernel v2.6.35-zen3+

Is that a kernel issue (e.g. I need the latest drm-next kernel) or a driver limitation (some parts are just not ready)?

Cdh · 2010-09-30 12:32:31

I built all the packages in the git myself and now it runs much better. Youtube webm videos work good now, too.

Arch Linux

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