xf86-video-ati 6.12.0 Driver With R600/700 Support

[russell_h]

I'm having trouble getting this to work with my RadeonHD 4850.

My kernel is compiled with no DRM. If I run the 6.12.0 driver without loading the drm or radeon modules, it works in the sense that nothing crashes, but I don't get the acceleration.

I built and installed the modules, and can load them fine, but when I load them then start X my desktop usually turns shockingly bright colors, and I get a crash immediately when I try to start gnome-terminal.

A relevant tidbit of my xorg.conf:

Option "DRI" "true"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "EXAVsync" "true"

Anything else special I need to be doing?

[bridgman]

I would turn off EXAVsync for now - just one less thing to worry about. Can you pastebin your dmesg output and xorg log ?

[remm]

This driver works great on a RV770 and a RV730. Much better than the proprietary frglx junk actually.

[russell_h]

Bridgman - Sorry, my logging isn't set up all that well at the moment.

Everything syslog-ng is catching:

http://pastebin.com/m50068b22

What gets appended to dmesg when I launch gnome-terminal:

http://pastebin.com/m30c62930

What I see when I tail Xorg.0.log:

http://pastebin.com/m5ffc1a04

Let me know if you need anything else.

-Russell

[bridgman]

Interesting; there seems to be a lot of GPU resetting going on. Not sure if this is related to recent suspend/resume changes or...

[nanonyme]

What I see when I tail Xorg.0.log:

http://pastebin.com/m5ffc1a04

-Russell

Would just like to comment that it's imo better to pastebin the full log than just the tail. The log isn't generally that long and X.org component version numbers and lots of other (sometimes) useful stuff is visible from there.

[russell_h]

Would just like to comment that it's imo better to pastebin the full log than just the tail. The log isn't generally that long and X.org component version numbers and lots of other (sometimes) useful stuff is visible from there.

Yeah, thats what I was originally going to do, but it seems like X rotates the logs out when it resets, so.. Well, I guess I could just pastebin the old log

[agd5f]

What I see when I tail Xorg.0.log:

http://pastebin.com/m5ffc1a04

sig 8 is a floating point exception, I'm guessing a divide by 0. It's probably in R600Composite() where we normalize the texture coordinates. I'm not sure why it would be zero though, exa shouldn't be sending pixmaps with width or height of 0.

Does this patch help?

http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/exa_zero_w_h.diff

[SolidSteel144]

Did I enable the options correctly?

http://pastebin.com/m3b13eaf4

[agd5f]

Did I enable the options correctly?
http://pastebin.com/m3b13eaf4

the EXAVSync option is not applicable on your card, so there's no need to set it (it doesn't hurt though, the driver will ignore it). It's not really generally needed even on the cards that do support it.