The Open-Source ATI R500 Driver

[goffrie]

Well, I fetched, compiled libpciaccess, avivo...
It works! Well, sort of. The refresh rate is set by default to 58 Hz no matter what I can think of doing in xorg.conf, and causes a very jittery screen. Using the KDE option panel, changing the refresh rate to 75 Hz fixes the problem. There's also a light blue box right in the middle of the screen; it's 64 pixels by 64 pixels. It's semi-transparent, I can see the stuff behind it, but not very much. I'd say about 70% opaque.
Oh, and my resolution is 1280x1024.
Anybody have any idea as to what's causing the blue box? (And the vertical refresh, too )

EDIT: Switching from 2.6.22-ck1 to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 (and having tons of troubles with 2.6.22-suspend2-r1 in between ) fixes the blue box. Weird. Still, I need to manually set the refresh rate. Does anybody know how to force this in xorg.conf?

[yoshi314]

there's no 3d support yet. there's even little 2d acceleration yet.

don't try anything involving 3d yet.

well, it might work if you use mesa for 3d, but i can't guarantee it.

[atippett]

BadAlloc Error

I'm not sure what's suppose to work right now but on trying to run compiz or beryl, I get the following BadAlloc error:


atippett@actlap:~$ compiz --replace
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Serial number of failed request: 16
Current serial number in output stream: 17
/usr/bin/compiz.real: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
/usr/bin/compiz.real: Failed to manage screen: 0
/usr/bin/compiz.real: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

[danielpugh]

fedora7/t60

hi there, ive nearly got the avivo driver working. it compiles fine etc and when i change xorg.conf it seems to be close to working. The screen is distorted - black line in centre of screen and blue gradients on either side.

when i move the mouse i can see white traces. I think the problem is my laptop (lenovo t60 x1300/r500) has a 1024x768 screen (i think others have got it working on higher res screens).

Any ideas. ATI/fglrx and vesa work fine.

Dan

forgot to mention - its fedora8/ rawhide

[domzanator]

I tried installing it on Debian yesterday, but I had problems with the ./autogen.sh part. I will try it on Fedora 7 today.

Hi all,
The avivo driver works on fedora 7; i guessing it would work on ubuntu as well. But i wouldn't move to avivo drivers as of it; still get alot of tiering. I would stick to ATI drivers for now.

Peace,
Dom

[d2kx]

I tried installing it on Debian yesterday, but I had problems with the ./autogen.sh part. I will try it on Fedora 7 today.

[napopa]

Anyone managed to install avivo drivers on ubuntu feisy?

[crumpet]

Ahh Too bad . I have a 17" mbp.... if I can do anything to help in your tests just let me know as I long to have a working open source driver- I did try to install it but all it did was to flash the screen.

UPDATE: I could see that you have made various updates to the git.. so I reinstalled and today( June 28) it works on the 17" mbp! Now I can get the correct screen resolution of 1680x1050 ... something that was not possible with the vesa driver. Many thanks for all the great work you are doing - I wish I could help but I suspect that I am not competent enough.

[glisse]

I have yet to see any commits in git for the Avivo driver showing that the Mac Intel ATI GPUs are yet to be supported. Hopefully soon though.

In fact i wasn't clear enough the macbook pro 15 will work (i got one) but th 17 won't (PLL are bad), when i was saying that mbp 15 was not working it's the external VGA output which is not working thanks to apple which wired the VGA 2 with DVI 1 (i believe they are the only one to do that) so to detect a monitor i have to probe as if it was VGA 1. I want to find an elegant solution to this but i fear i will need to add a workaround for mbp.

[Michael]

There was some comment in the past that this driver does not work with the apple mactel macbook pro. Is this still the case?

I have yet to see any commits in git for the Avivo driver showing that the Mac Intel ATI GPUs are yet to be supported. Hopefully soon though.