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

[DanL]

For those who want a quick guide to compiling drm and using radeon 6.12:

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeon%3Ar6xx_r7xx_branch

[Aphax]

Are you running with the needed Kernel DRM stuff for R6xx/R7xx?

Yeah, I'm running the drm/radeon modules from the r6xx-r7xx-support branch

[siggma]

Yeah, I'm running the drm/radeon modules from the r6xx-r7xx-support branch

Can one of your geniuses tell me what this means:

siggma@ubuntu:~$ git checkout -b r6xx-r7xx-support origin/r6xx-r7xx-support
fatal: Not a git repository

[Michael]

Can one of your geniuses tell me what this means:

siggma@ubuntu:~$ git checkout -b r6xx-r7xx-support origin/r6xx-r7xx-support
fatal: Not a git repository

It means you're not in a git repository. Did you cd into the xf86-video-ati/ directory?

[siggma]

It means you're not in a git repository. Did you cd into the xf86-video-ati/ directory?

Duh..
I don't use git very often.

[Vighy]

I imagine the useful messages would be in the kernel log not the X log; is the system completely unresponsive or is it just X that's hanging ?

I should look at it through ssh then, since my keyboard and mouse will have no effect at all. The only button working is the power button which sends and acpi event and turns down the machine.

uh no sorry, I always forget about logging

Mar 14 17:19:43 Obi-Wan [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Mar 14 17:19:43 Obi-Wan radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Mar 14 17:19:43 Obi-Wan radeon 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Mar 14 17:19:43 Obi-Wan [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080613 on minor 0
Mar 14 17:25:52 Obi-Wan BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009fc00/0009fc00

these are the last lines on the kernel log of those sessions.

despite the dates like 20080613, I used an ebuild with these lines:

EGIT_BRANCH="r6xx-r7xx-support"
EGIT_REPO_URI="git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm"

so is the right branch ;-)

[bridgman]

I'm still a bit suspicious about whether the correct drm bits are running.

Normally there are a few lines talking about loading microcode and writeback tests immediately after the "initialized drm x.x.x" message.

[agd5f]

Duh..
I don't use git very often.

Use the master branch of ati git, and the r6xx-r7xx-support branch of the drm.

[Aphax]

Anyone know if I should worry if I occasionally get these?:

[ 1532.629872] mtrr: no MTRR for d0000000,10000000 found

Weird thing is that though I've been told this could be because of a buggy BIOS, I'm getting the same error (and same address range) on two mostly different machines (one's intel Core 2 based, other AMD Athlon X2), but both running 2.6.28 with mtrrr/PAT enabled and this latest driver+rx600-rx700-support drm branch.

Only thing I notice is that compositing (using Metacity) is a bit slow (dragging/resizing windows is very jerky), but I don't know if that is normal since I normally don't use it. Also dri and EXA are loaded correctly according to my Xorg log.

[Vighy]

I'm still a bit suspicious about whether the correct drm bits are running.

Normally there are a few lines talking about loading microcode and writeback tests immediately after the "initialized drm x.x.x" message.

verified, it fecthes the right branch

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-base/x11-drm-99999999 from unknown repo
 * x11-drm-99999999-gentoo-0.2.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                       [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                         [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                                        [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                                       [ ok ]
 * Determining the location of the kernel source code
 * Found kernel source directory:
 *     /usr/src/linux
 * Found sources for kernel version:
 *     2.6.28-tuxonice-r4-gec906d4
>>> Unpacking source...
 * git update start -->
 *    repository: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
 *    local clone: /distfiles/git-src/x11-drm
 *    committish: r6xx-r7xx-support
>>> Unpacked to /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-99999999/work/drm
[..snip..]

kernel log doesn't change, xorg log stops after this:

(II) RADEON(0): RADEONInitMemoryMap() : 
(II) RADEON(0):   mem_size         : 0x20000000
(II) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION   : 0x00ff00e0
(II) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION  : 0x003f0000
(II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default
(II) RADEON(0): Allocating from a screen of 262080 kb
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 32 kb for hardware cursor 0 at offset 0x00640000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 32 kb for hardware cursor 1 at offset 0x00644000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 6400 kb for front buffer at offset 0x00000000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 64 kb for PCI GART at offset 0x0fff0000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 6400 kb for back buffer at offset 0x00648000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 6400 kb for depth buffer at offset 0x00c88000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 120832 kb for textures at offset 0x012c8000
(II) RADEON(0): Will use 122016 kb for X Server offscreen at offset 0x088c8000
(II) RADEON(0): DRIScreenInit for fglrx driver
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 10
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0

and stops here
with

  Option "DRI" "false"

it works, but no new features

I'm running this:

(II) RADEON(0): ATOM BIOS Rom: 
	SubsystemVendorID: 0x1043 SubsystemID: 0x1562
	IOBaseAddress: 0x9000
	Filename:             
	BIOS Bootup Message: 

ASUS_F3Sa A12 M76 BIOS GDDR2 400m/500e ASID:A15201.011$