ATI RV516 - Radeon X1300/1500 - No Direct Rendering

[sirus]

Hi there -
I am having a problem with my ATI RV516 and direct rendering. I get this error from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(II) RADEONHD(0): Found libdri 5.4.0.
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
(EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen("radeon", "pci:0000:02:00.0") failed.
(WW) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIPreInit: Version check failed. Disabling DRI

I have the latest 1.2.4 radeonhd driver installed with xorg-server 1.5.3-r1 and according to the radeonhd man page - R5xx and RS6xx chips support DRI at the moment. Note that I do have the Option "DRI" enabled in the xorg.conf

I don't know if I have to get a SVN snapshot but any help would be great because I really want to use XV with an open source driver. I am quite frustrated with the performance and usage of the ATI proprietary driver on Linux.

Sincerely and thanks,
sirus

[bridgman]

I think this message usually means that the drm module used by your kernel is too old. Could be either included in your kernel or built separately and installed in a way I don't fully understand

Which distro and kernel are you using ? Most of the recent distros have suffuciently new kernel and driver code to work well with a 5xx GPU. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 at the office because it is a real easy way to get all the working bits for 5xx.

[sirus]

I think this message usually means that the drm module used by your kernel is too old. Could be either included in your kernel or built separately and installed in a way I don't fully understand

Which distro and kernel are you using ? Most of the recent distros have suffuciently new kernel and driver code to work well with a 5xx GPU. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 at the office because it is a real easy way to get all the working bits for 5xx.

I am running Gentoo with 2.6.28-gentoo-r1 and I have the kernel DRM enabled as a module. I just upgraded my kernel today to the newest available not from git.

[sirus]

I have DRM loaded as a module and the driver will still not detect it. I do configure the kernel from scratch and I could have easily forget to enable something required for the full functionality of the radeonhd driver.

[bridgman]

That seems alright. You might want to subscribe to the radeonhd list and post a message there.

lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd

[sirus]

Direct Rendering now works! When it wasn't working I had the two kernel options DRM and RADEON built-in but after modularizing them DRI works fine now. I forgot to do that in the first place when reconfiguring the kernel.

But unfortunately the reason I wanted DRI was to us XV and video does not play with it! Here is the error I get with mplayer when playing any video file:

X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

I checked the Xorg.0.log and found a error that did not look good!:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4e1916]
1: /usr/bin/X(mieqEnqueue+0x27b) [0x4c458b]
2: /usr/bin/X(xf86PostMotionEventP+0xf1) [0x4908a1]
3: /usr/bin/X(xf86PostMotionEvent+0xc3) [0x490a43]
4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so [0x7fbbad27146f]
5: /usr/bin/X [0x47af55]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x46c770]
7: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x7fbbd3308ed0]
8: /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 [0x7fbbd23b5b3d]
9: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libfb.so(fbCopyNtoN+0x277) [0x7fbbcfccea37]
10: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libfb.so(fbCopyRegion+0xa7) [0x7fbbcfccd8a7]
11: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libfb.so(fbDoCopy+0x4a1) [0x7fbbcfccdf41]
12: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libfb.so(fbCopyArea+0x4c) [0x7fbbcfcce07c]
13: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0x7fbbcfa6a77a]
14: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0x7fbbcfaadbf8]
15: /usr/bin/X [0x521099]
16: /usr/bin/X [0x4f121f]
17: /usr/bin/X(compAllocPixmap+0x34) [0x4f14a4]
18: /usr/bin/X(compRealizeWindow+0x46) [0x4f0cd6]
19: /usr/bin/X [0x43449a]
20: /usr/bin/X(MapWindow+0x110) [0x4362c0]
21: /usr/bin/X(compRedirectWindow+0x1e4) [0x4f1c34]
22: /usr/bin/X(compRedirectSubwindows+0xa8) [0x4f1e68]
23: /usr/bin/X [0x4eef55]
24: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x334) [0x449474]
25: /usr/bin/X(main+0x43a) [0x4312fa]
26: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x7fbbd1233b74]
27: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x231) [0x4306d9]
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
(EE) RADEONHD(0): rhdPutImageTextured: pixmap is not in Framebuffer!

Any help with this would be much appreciated.
As a side note I tried to use EXA as a rendering method and it completely crashed xorg-server leaving my computer useless. I even tried opening an ssh connection from an alternate computer to kill X or just reboot the computer and it failed.

[sirus]

Ok I first disabled AIGLX in the xorg.conf because the radeonhd doesn't support it. The backtrace error disappeared but I turned off the XFCE compositor to get XV playback working

I am so glad this driver just works now.