Getting Open Source 3D graphics on R6XX/R7XX cards (NO FGLRX)

[Neo_The_User]

OK well.. I left out some very important details that have now been updated and fixed. Firmware was not being built, therefor it would hard-lock the PC. :/ not good. Sorry about that.

Cheers mates!

[AndyW]

I'm following the X.org wiki procedure for building a 2.6.31 + drm-next kernel (http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHo...198d772a55fad3), which is pretty much the same as Neo's here. I am running Fedora 11, GPU is RV730 (Radeon HD 4670) and M/b chipset is ATI 780G.

When I try to pull the drm-next changes from Dave Airlied's tree I get a merge conflict in intel_sdvo.c:-

[andrew@localhost linux-2.6.31.y]$ git pull airlied_drm_remote drm-next
remote: Counting objects: 2129, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (776/776), done.
remote: Total 1896 (delta 1428), reused 1538 (delta 1118)
Receiving objects: 100% (1896/1896), 559.58 KiB | 474 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1428/1428), completed with 145 local objects.
From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
 * branch            drm-next   -> FETCH_HEAD
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c
Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_tv.c
Removing drivers/gpu/drm/mga/mga_ucode.h
Removing drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600_microcode.h
Removing drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_microcode.h
Removing drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rs690r.h
Removing drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rs780.c
Removing drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rv515r.h
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

I think I can get round the conflict by doing "git add <file>" on intel_sdvo.c. Will this matter, as I don't have i915 chipset? If it does, how can I resolve the conflict?

Thanks,

Andrew

[Ant P.]

I don't remember the exact commands to fix it but it goes like this:

1. Create a new branch that tracks origin/master
2. `git checkout -f` that branch
3. Delete the old master branch
4. Rename the new branch back to "master"

[Neo_The_User]

Sorry. Pull from drm-linus. Not drm-next. Will fix guide. Thanks.

edit: fixed.

git pull (airlied's tree) drm-linus

Cheers!

To fix your problem, run these commands in this exact order.

git reset --hard
git add .
git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git drm-linus

Dont forget the ending dot in the second line.

[rmartinez]

Sorry. Pull from drm-linus. Not drm-next. Will fix guide. Thanks.

edit: fixed.

git pull (airlied's tree) drm-linus

Cheers!

To fix your problem, run these commands in this exact order.

git reset --hard
git add .
git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git drm-linus

Dont forget the ending dot in the second line.

Hello, my computer (ASUS M51Ta) has two graphic cards:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650
And it is not possible to disable none of them from bios... I'm having troubles in installing drivers that will bring 3D acceleration, I tried almost everything I could (last fglrx with Ubuntu 9.10, radeonhd 1.3.0). Do you think that your guide will work with my hybrid configuration? Thanks!

[Neo_The_User]

Hello, my computer (ASUS M51Ta) has two graphic cards:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650
And it is not possible to disable none of them from bios... I'm having troubles in installing drivers that will bring 3D acceleration, I tried almost everything I could (last fglrx with Ubuntu 9.10, radeonhd 1.3.0). Do you think that your guide will work with my hybrid configuration? Thanks!

I don't see anything special in my guide that might fix it. Before you start compiling everything, run this command in the terminal and paste ALL output using the # / CODE button in this thread so I can look it over.

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo &> glxinfo.txt
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log &> xorg.log
dmesg &> dmesg.txt

Open up those files and paste all output here after doing those exact commands (no typoes) Thanks.

[bridgman]

There was a fix added to the -ati driver recently which might help with hybrid graphcs, so if the instructions involve pulling xf86-video-ati from git master they're probably worth a try.

[rmartinez]

I don't see anything special in my guide that might fix it. Before you start compiling everything, run this command in the terminal and paste ALL output using the # / CODE button in this thread so I can look it over.

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo &> glxinfo.txt
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log &> xorg.log
dmesg &> dmesg.txt

Open up those files and paste all output here after doing those exact commands (no typoes) Thanks.

OK, here are the output files:

glxinfo.txt
======

X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  135 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  16
  Current serial number in output stream:  16
name of display: :0.0

[rmartinez]

The xorg.log and dmesg.txt are to long to put them in a reply... It is possible to attach them in any way?

[bridgman]

Use a service like pastebin then paste a link to the pastebin page.