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    Hi,

    My dad has a notebook with a FireGL M7740 card, has installed Ubuntu on it, and enabled the proprietary drivers. For 3D intensive applications it works quite well, however the desktop is all choppy. I tried using the opensource driver.
    Now to the opensource part :
    I tried installing the opensource radeon driver from xorg-edgers, and either failed miserably or it just didn't work. Knowing my way better around Fedora (and pretty much any other distro than ubuntu) a lot better, I fired up the LiveCD, and Modesetting worked perfectly. However there was no 3D acceleration (glxinfo reported LLVMPipe as renderer). That was a surprise.

    My question is : what is the status of the support of this card? I read up and discovered that it's based on the RadeonHD 4860. Knowing that the 4XXX series are quite well supported, I'm confused....

    Thanks,

    Serafean

  • #2
    Originally posted by Serafean View Post
    My question is : what is the status of the support of this card? I read up and discovered that it's based on the RadeonHD 4860. Knowing that the 4XXX series are quite well supported, I'm confused....
    It might just be a set of PCI IDs that the developers haven't seen yet, or microcode missing, or...

    Can you pastebin the xorg log and dmesg output and put links here ? Alternatively maybe ask on #radeon and supply the same info.
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    • #3
      Hi,

      dmesg : http://pastebin.com/Rx8qDmMJ
      xorg : http://pastebin.com/Vr2gBJjN

      relevant lspci : 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M97 GL [ATI FirePro M7740]

      This is from a Fedora 16 LiveCD, no modifications (I don't have the guts to mess with the ubuntu installation anymore).

      I don't have much time atm, maybe after New Year's I could pop into #radeon

      Thanks for your interest,

      Serafean

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      • #4
        The driver looks like it's loaded fine in your dmesg and mesa has the pci id for your card.
        Last edited by agd5f; 19 December 2011, 12:45 PM.

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        • #5
          You might want to set LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose and run a gl app (like glxgears). Hopefully it will tell you why you're getting software rendering.

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          • #6
            Hi,
            The driver looks like it's loaded fine in your dmesg and mesa has the pci id for your card.
            That's what I thought, hence my great confusion :-)

            Here goes :
            Code:
            [root@localhost liveuser]# LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxgears
            libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so
            libGL error: failed to create dri screen
            libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so
            libGL: Can't open configuration file /etc/drirc: No such file or directory.
            libGL: Can't open configuration file /root/.drirc: No such file or directory.
            XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
                  after 4783 requests (4781 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
            Again on the LiveUSB of Fedora 16.

            Serafean

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            • #7
              Why do you try it as root?

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              • #8
                Why do you try it as root?
                Because it reminded me of a permissions problem I encountered several years ago... (couldn't access /dev/drm or something) Just making sure. The output was exactly the same for the regular user.

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