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  • Radeon x550/x700 Dri with radeon driver?

    I have been having a real problem trying to find out whether the radeon driver supports DRI for this chipset (X550/X700).

    I bought Sapphire Card that said that it was based on a radeon x700 (which should be supported by radeon DRI). Linux lists two unknown ATI display devices, FreeBSD lists:

    'Radeon x550/x700 Series'
    chip=0x56571002

    and

    'Radeon X550/X700 series Secondary'
    chip=0x56771002

    It shows up similarly on windows once I install the Sapphire provided drivers.

    I have a single widescreen monitor attached to the VGA (it also has DVI) and can get the native 1680x1050 display resolution after running X -configure and using the generated .conf (which only has one device and lists the board as 'unknown'). However, I can never get DRI to work with this thing on FreeBSD or linux.

    I get a DRMGetVersion failed error in the Xorg log. I even tried installing the fglrx driver in ubuntu and that was an absolute disaster. With fglrx, the system reboots everytime I try to log in.

    So now I'm confused about what chipset I even have (what's with the 'X550 slash X700') and have no clue whether there is any configuration that'll get DRI to work.

    ANY help, wven pointing me to a better place to ask would be VERY welcome. Of course, if anyone is familiar with a chip like this that'd be great.

  • #2
    I thought x700 and x550 cards were completely different GPU generations, one being R400-based (rv410) and the other R300-based (rv370/rv380) Am I (and Wikipedia) wrong? How can they be interchangeable enough to have the same PCI ID?

    ETA: Never mind, I did some research via Google and an .inf from a Windows Catalyst that I had lying around, and it looks like there was an "X550XTX" card that was actually a rebranded X700, and thus (unlike the regular X550) a genuine R400-based GPU...
    Last edited by Alex W. Jackson; 21 June 2008, 04:18 AM.

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    • #3
      I don't get it either.
      On the box it says it's a Sapphire ATI Radeon x700.
      After installing the bunndled drivers, this is what catalyst hardware information reports:


      Graphics Chipset Radeon X550/X700 series
      Device ID 5657
      Vendor 1002

      Subsystem ID 0001
      Subsystem Vendor ID 174b

      Bus Type PCI Express
      Memory Size 256 MB
      Memory Type DDR1

      Core Clock 398 MHZ
      Memory Clock 199 MHZ
      I installed windows just to see how the included drivers would report it. I still don't know for sure what X should be seeing it as though. My main problem is no DRI so I can't take advantage of the 3D capabilities in linux.

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      • #4
        Your card is supported. The error suggest that you don't have drm install maybe it's fglrx getting in the way. On ubuntu do apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx and try to reinstall libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx. This might help. Otherwise provide your Xorg.

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        • #5
          marq, are you "Methuselah" from ubuntuforums?

          If that is him, his lspci, xorg.conf and Xorg.log are here (and if that isn't him, it's someone having problems with a card that's identical down to the PCI subvendor ID):

          I cannot get DRI to turn on with this card. Not only that, but LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose gives me no clue. So I looked at the xorg log. It's saying the card is a X550XTX and its not supposed to be. After this DRI fails. I'm not sure if this is something I can fix by some config change or if there is some bug in the way XOrg is detecting thw card. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated (even a link to another forum where I can ask about this). Below is the output of lspci


          I notice that the radeon driver thinks his card is an RV370, but that's wrong, PCI ID 0x5657 is definitely an RV410 no matter what the box the card came in calls it.

          Oh, and I'm not cyberstalkin' ya marq , I just stumbled on that post while I was Googling the X550/X700 mystery...
          Last edited by Alex W. Jackson; 21 June 2008, 04:40 AM.

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          • #6
            Yeah, good detective work!
            I posted the same thing on the ubuntu forums.
            That is my xorg.conf and XOrg log on there.

            So glisse, if it's OK you can refer to that as well.
            I cannot get DRI to turn on with this card. Not only that, but LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose gives me no clue. So I looked at the xorg log. It's saying the card is a X550XTX and its not supposed to be. After this DRI fails. I'm not sure if this is something I can fix by some config change or if there is some bug in the way XOrg is detecting thw card. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated (even a link to another forum where I can ask about this). Below is the output of lspci


            I also tried what you suggested. fglrx wasn't interfering and the mesa libs were already up-to-date.
            lsmod | grep radeon shows:

            radeon 131360 0
            drm 106152 1 radeon

            and I think that's fine as well.
            It would seem that the 3D driver is not properly attaching to my card.

            Alex, I noticed the detection of the rV370 too while I was looking through the log for what X thought the card was. But I was getting so much conflicting info, I wasn't even sure that was wrong. Thanks for the confirmation.

            BTW, lspci -v reports on the ATI card as two devices both 'unknown'

            01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5657 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
            Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Unknown device 0001
            Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12
            Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
            Memory at e5000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
            I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
            [virtual] Expansion ROM at e4000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
            Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
            Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
            Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

            01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5677
            Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Unknown device 0000
            Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
            Memory at e5010000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
            Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
            Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
            Last edited by marq; 21 June 2008, 05:27 AM.

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            • #7
              Another thing that I find suspicious:

              $ dmesg | grep drm
              [ 48.516297] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810

              No mention of attaching to any radeon.

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              • #8
                What does your full 'lsmod' look like?

                Adam

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                • #9
                  I suspect you have an old DRM that's missing your card's pciid--0x5657 was only added this January:

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                  • #10
                    adamk, here's my full lsmod:

                    Code:
                    Module                  Size  Used by
                    ipv6                  311848  14 
                    af_packet              27272  2 
                    radeon                131360  0 
                    drm                   105896  1 radeon
                    rfcomm                 47392  2 
                    l2cap                  28800  13 rfcomm
                    bluetooth              67748  4 rfcomm,l2cap
                    ppdev                  11400  0 
                    cpufreq_powersave       3200  0 
                    cpufreq_conservative    10632  0 
                    cpufreq_userspace       6180  0 
                    cpufreq_stats           8416  0 
                    cpufreq_ondemand       11152  0 
                    freq_table              6464  2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
                    dock                   12960  0 
                    video                  23444  0 
                    output                  5632  1 video
                    container               6656  0 
                    sbs                    17808  0 
                    sbshc                   8960  1 sbs
                    battery                16776  0 
                    iptable_filter          4608  0 
                    ip_tables              24104  1 iptable_filter
                    x_tables               23560  1 ip_tables
                    ac                      8328  0 
                    lp                     14916  0 
                    bt878                  13672  0 
                    tuner                  49056  0 
                    tea5767                 7812  1 tuner
                    sr_mod                 20132  0 
                    tda8290                13828  1 tuner
                    tuner_simple           10632  1 tuner
                    cdrom                  41512  1 sr_mod
                    mt20xx                 14600  1 tuner
                    tea5761                 6916  1 tuner
                    snd_hda_intel         440408  3 
                    snd_pcm_oss            47648  0 
                    snd_mixer_oss          20224  1 snd_pcm_oss
                    snd_pcm                92168  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
                    snd_page_alloc         13200  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
                    bttv                  214772  1 bt878
                    snd_hwdep              12552  1 snd_hda_intel
                    usb_storage            82496  0 
                    ir_common              39812  1 bttv
                    libusual               23520  1 usb_storage
                    snd_seq_dummy           5764  0 
                    usblp                  17664  0 
                    compat_ioctl32         11136  1 bttv
                    i2c_algo_bit            8452  1 bttv
                    videobuf_dma_sg        17028  1 bttv
                    videobuf_core          22020  2 bttv,videobuf_dma_sg
                    snd_seq_oss            38912  0 
                    snd_seq_midi           10688  0 
                    btcx_risc               6792  1 bttv
                    tveeprom               20624  1 bttv
                    i2c_core               28544  9 tuner,tea5767,tda8290,tuner_simple,mt20xx,tea5761,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom
                    usbhid                 35296  0 
                    snd_rawmidi            29856  1 snd_seq_midi
                    hid                    44992  1 usbhid
                    videodev               30720  1 bttv
                    parport_pc             41128  1 
                    v4l2_common            21888  4 tuner,bttv,compat_ioctl32,videodev
                    v4l1_compat            15492  2 bttv,videodev
                    8139too                31104  0 
                    snd_seq_midi_event     10112  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
                    iTCO_wdt               15312  0 
                    parport                44300  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
                    pata_jmicron            8448  0 
                    snd_seq                63232  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
                    snd_timer              27912  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
                    snd_seq_device         10644  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
                    snd                    70856  17 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
                    iTCO_vendor_support     5764  1 iTCO_wdt
                    ata_piix               24196  0 
                    button                 10912  0 
                    pata_acpi               9856  0 
                    intel_agp              30624  0 
                    pcspkr                  4992  0 
                    shpchp                 38172  0 
                    pci_hotplug            34608  1 shpchp
                    evdev                  14976  4 
                    soundcore              10400  1 snd
                    ext3                  149264  1 
                    jbd                    57000  1 ext3
                    mbcache                11392  1 ext3
                    sg                     41880  0 
                    sd_mod                 33280  3 
                    floppy                 69096  0 
                    r8169                  36612  0 
                    ata_generic             9988  0 
                    8139cp                 27776  0 
                    mii                     7552  2 8139too,8139cp
                    uhci_hcd               29856  0 
                    ehci_hcd               41996  0 
                    ahci                   33028  2 
                    libata                176432  5 pata_jmicron,ata_piix,pata_acpi,ata_generic,ahci
                    scsi_mod              178488  5 sr_mod,usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
                    usbcore               169904  7 usb_storage,libusual,usblp,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
                    thermal                19744  0 
                    processor              41448  1 thermal
                    fan                     6792  0 
                    fbcon                  46336  0 
                    tileblit                4096  1 fbcon
                    font                   10112  1 fbcon
                    bitblit                 7424  1 fbcon
                    softcursor              3712  1 bitblit
                    fuse                   56112  3

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