Just finished a quick test of the live cd on my Acer Aspire 5100 with a Radeon Mobility m200. It is getting twice the fps in glxgears that I get running Kubuntu JJ under xorg 7.4 radeon open source driver... Keep up the good work folks...
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Originally posted by tormod View PostWe have set up a package repository at https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/radeon-kms which has kernel, libdrm, mesa and -ati packages for testing kernel mode-setting (and GEM/TTM/DRI2) on Ubuntu Karmic. The packages might install on Jaunty as well.
The above page also links to a Karmic-based live CD image (URL might change) which has all bits installed and simply boots up to the wonderful world of KMS...
Warning: This is experimental code so do not install it on your production system or anywhere where you have valuable data.
My only gripe:
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "ForceLowPowerMode" is not used
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicPM" is not used
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "ClockGating" is not used
Any ideas why this doesn't work?
Ah, and Wolfenstein exits with a SIG11. Haven't managed to get it to work with any version of the radeon driver, only with fglrx.
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Originally posted by highlandsun View PostI tried to boot the live CD from a USB memory stick (copied using the isotostick shell script) and it failed with some complaint about squashfs version mismatch. Anyone else using it?
1. Make sure you delete the old casper folder on the stick
2. Use usb-creator instead of whatever scripts
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Well the usb-creator is only a script with a little gui - installing syslinux on a fat stick is a trivial task, wrote a script that works with debian live and U. But i would prefer when U would be using a more recent isolinux version + isohybird to create hybrid images you can directly put onto usb device.
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Originally posted by DF5JT View PostAh, and Wolfenstein exits with a SIG11. Haven't managed to get it to work with any version of the radeon driver, only with fglrx.
As root try this:
Code:echo 'wolfsp.x86 0 0 direct' > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
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Originally posted by DF5JT View Post(WW) RADEON(0): Option "ForceLowPowerMode" is not used
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicPM" is not used
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "ClockGating" is not used
Any ideas why this doesn't work?
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Originally posted by Kano View PostWell the usb-creator is only a script with a little gui - installing syslinux on a fat stick is a trivial task, wrote a script that works with debian live and U. But i would prefer when U would be using a more recent isolinux version + isohybird to create hybrid images you can directly put onto usb device.
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Debian Unstable/Edgers
Any reports of success from Debian users? I ask this because I'm about at my wits end troubleshooting some annoying green screen corruption under KMS. A non-KMS kernel loads Xorg normally. The KMS kernel works cleanly when using modeset=0.
I have tried working around possibilities of versioning problems by using the Edgers KMS PPA as well as building from Jerome's git repository for mesa, xorg ati+radeon servers and libdrm as per http://jglisse.livejournal.com/1822.html. For the kernel, I have used both the patched KMS kernel on edgers and the 2.6.29 tree in Jerome's private repo.
When loading KMS I receive the version mismatch error reported by M?P?F here:
dmesg:
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X.org log:
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lsmod:
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For what it's worth, v0.2 of the Edgers live CD works brilliantly, so I know my RS4xx IGP is at least nominally compatible. I'm guessing this is a userspace issue, but I just don't know what else to attack. Suggestions are very much appreciated.
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Originally posted by tormod View PostThis is because the kms-capable version of the -ati driver was forked off master a long time ago, before the power management was introduced, and it has not been synchronized since. Expect this to be fixed within the next weeks.
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