how to get XV, DRI working on HD 3300 (rv620) ??

[agd5f]

The drm_pciids.txt file has the Mobility HD3400 lines in the wrong order in the file, so the cards are not recognized. Moving them to the proper location makes them work:

Note: I haven't gotten any further than loading drm.ko and radeon.ko yet, dunno if the radeonhd driver will actually work for me. I just finally see the drm init in dmesg now.

The order doesn't matter. The drm doesn't actually get initialized until X loads.

[PuckPoltergeist]

With todays drm source swichting between X and VT no longer poses a problem! Finally got radeonhd & XV working flawlessly - JAY Thanks to all for your help!

Yeah, finally it works now. But I've still some kind of screen corruption. For example, there is something like a horizontal dash on top of the cursor. It isn't visible on the screenshots cause no cursor is shown there. Will try if I can take a screenshot, where this is visible.

[bridgman]

Does the corruption leave "trails" or is it only visible in the cursor's current location ?

[PuckPoltergeist]

Yeah, finally it works now. But I've still some kind of screen corruption. For example, there is something like a horizontal dash on top of the cursor. It isn't visible on the screenshots cause no cursor is shown there. Will try if I can take a screenshot, where this is visible.

With more then one tab in konqueror it is visible too:

http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~johi-in/Bildschirmfoto6.jpg

You can see it in the tab-bar.

Oh, its much more worse:

http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~johi-in/Bildschirmfoto7.jpg

[agd5f]

Make sure you're using the latest drm bits as well.

[highlandsun]

The order doesn't matter. The drm doesn't actually get initialized until X loads.

OK, my mistake. I had another older drm.ko/radeon.ko in /lib/modules/xx/updates so the ones I had just built and copies into xx/kernel/driver/gpu weren't actually loading.

I confirmed by reading the drm_init() code that order doesn't matter, and insmod'ing the freshly built files worked fine.

As a footnote, the radeon.ko module logs an init message displaying its version # when it's loaded/probed successfully, before the X server starts. I wasn't even seeing that before, with the old module. But it mostly seems to be working now.

In /var/log/Xorg.log I see a message that AIGLX couldn't init with DRI because of some other missing shared library. I guess there's more I need to rebuild on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. But now Xv is working, and mplayer is using a lot less CPU than before, which is all I really cared about.

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so

[agd5f]

In /var/log/Xorg.log I see a message that AIGLX couldn't init with DRI because of some other missing shared library. I guess there's more I need to rebuild on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. But now Xv is working, and mplayer is using a lot less CPU than before, which is all I really cared about.

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so

You can ignore that. There is no 3D driver yet for r6xx/r7xx.

[PuckPoltergeist]

Make sure you're using the latest drm bits as well.

I have done a git pull just before building the source, drm as well as radeonhd.

[schwarzygesetzlos]

With newest git-source I get following error when stopping the X-Server, e.g. rebooting the machine:

[drm] wait idle failed status: 0xA0003030 0x00000003

Which gets repeated very often during the whole shutdown-process.

[DanL]

For those having trouble getting the latest drm to work, make sure you're configuring/autogen.sh with --prefix=/usr

I found this guide helpful for building drm, though it's a bit outdated: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhdRI