Installing fglrx for V5250 (Thinkpad T60p)

[chrisr]

What about the X.Org Video Driver ABI?

No. It is correct.

According to the log file:

(II) Module ABI versions:
        X.Org Video Driver: 1.2

(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
        ...
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0

Is v1.2 of this ABI backwards compatible to v1.0? I have heard of someone running WoW with 8.34.8 on Ubuntu 7.04, but his Xserver is using Video Driver ABI v1.1.

[chrisr]

No difference changing DRI device permissions.

Normally it is just

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

I tried this suggestion too. Fedora 7 actually clobbers it with 0600 when the user logs in anyway, but I set it back to 0666. It made no difference, I am relieved to say. I'd hate to think which other user ID would have been involved if that had actually worked .

At this point, I can only conclude that there is a bug in the 8.40.4 driver that WoW / Wine is tripping over. And if anyone can please suggest any meaningful tests to narrow the problem down to the point where I can generate a useful bug report, then maybe there will be a snowball's chance in **** of this bug getting fixed in 8.41.x. (The only other OpenGL apps I have are xscreensavers - not exactly demanding!)

[chrisr]

8.40.4 plays native Quake2 just fine.

I have installed QuakeForge's Quake2 v0.3, and it is working fine. I get about 50-something fps at 1280x1024.

[Alistair]

You might want to add the omit dga stanza

in Section Module

under

Load "extmod"

(add at this point)

      SubSection "extmod"
                Option      "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
        EndSubSection

I've had several episodes of grief with DGA running while playing WoW in wine

[chrisr]

celestia 1.4.1 also fails miserably - must now blame driver.

The fact that celestia 1.4.1 also crashes immediately shows that I am not having a Wine/Warcraft issue here. Can anyone see a problem with this PCI entry please?

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5250] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 20a4
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at ee100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at ee120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
                Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag+
                Device: Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
                Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
                Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                Device: RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Port 0
                Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                Link: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch-
                Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000

[Kano]

Just general info:

off/disabled/false/0

or

on/enabled/true/1

are the same in the xorg.conf - you can use any of those, not needed to use only one type.

For 8.39.4+ I really see no working Composite support. Beryl has a fallback to Composite, when AIGLX is not working. That will not succeed with those drivers. Not even KDE transparency works without gfx glichtes.

[Alistair]

Chris :
have you tried turning off dga extensions in xorg.conf?

eg:

Load "extmod"
 SubSection "extmod"
                Option      "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
        EndSubSection

This has a direct relevance to memory alocation issues ***at the 2d*** level which might influence other memory allocations in the driver. Lord knows with FireGL devices -- but I seem to recall that (somewhere back in 2006) someone posted a problem with wine, accelerated 2d graphics and using opengl on a firegl board.

There is in /etc/ati a bunch of files as well -- key being amdpcsdb or something like that - -whats in there please?

[chrisr]

I did try that...

Chris :
have you tried turning off dga extensions in xorg.conf?

Yes, I did try putting that line in there. But from reading Xorg.0.log afterwards I'm not entirely sure that the X server picked it up.

There is in /etc/ati a bunch of files as well -- key being amdpcsdb or something like that - -whats in there please?

I'll dig those out for you...

[chrisr]

"omit xfree86-dga" made no difference

Load "extmod"
 SubSection "extmod"
                Option      "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
        EndSubSection

No, I still get the same memory error allocating the surface when I try to run Warcraft.

There's also often (but not always) a strange "NMI" error when the fglrx driver loads - "Spurious NMI on CPU1 for unknown reason b1" or something like that. It then tries to say that this is probably a hardware problem on the PCI bus, but this is a brand new Core 2 Duo laptop with a new FireGL chip. I'm guessing I will need to cross my fingers for the brand new ATI driver, unless there is a sudden frenzy of avivo development.

There is in /etc/ati a bunch of files as well -- key being amdpcsdb or something like that - -whats in there please?

Here it is:

AMDPCSDBV1
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/LibXUtil/Display1]
Map=V0
Enable=V1
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/DDX]
Centermode=Soff
PseudoColorVisuals=Soff
OpenGLOverlay=Soff
VideoOverlay=Son
FSAAEnable=Soff
FSAAScale=S2
UseFastTls=S2
UseInternalAGPGART=Sno
Capabilities=S0x00000800
KernelModuleParm=Slocked-userpages=0
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/OpenGL]
OGLWaitVerticalSync=V3
OGLMaxAnisotropy=V4
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/LDC]
LastViewedPage=S3D
HelpDisabled=V0
LinkedAllSliders:1=V1