Running radeonsi on Ubuntu 13.04

[frosth]

solution for radeonsi on ubuntu

@mmstick
maybe this thread will help:

update drivers on ubuntu

[frosth]

solution for radeonsi on ubuntu

I don't have ubuntu but you can see this thrad, Maybe you find answer.

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?50038-Updated-and-Optimized-Ubuntu-Free-Graphics-Drivers

[PhilPotter]

Can anyone make a better guide on installing the latest mesa with glamor AND s3tc support now that kernel 3.11-rc1 is out and runs well? I don't know too much about compiling some of the more complicated stuff nor feel too comfortable about messing around with trying to do it.

I can't write an exact guide as I don't use ubuntu, but I can tell you it was easier than I thought it would be. I did the same thing on Fedora a few months back. Basically I went for a 'rip-and-replace' kind of solution, probably not the best one thinking about it now.

I removed the relevant packages (outside the package manager in some cases as it would otherwise mean getting rid of dependencies I wanted to keep) and then built Mesa, GLAMOR, xf86-video-ati and libtxc_dxtn in that order (libtxc_dxtn is a runtime dependency if I remember rightly). The key thing was using the right configure switches to make sure the dri modules and so on go to the right location, but you can figure this out by looking at your existing system first. Also, if you are on an x64 system, you will obviously need to build Mesa twice if you want 32-bit compatibility.

Sorry, not very precise I know but hopefully will point you in the right direction - bear in mind the way I did it could potentially hose your X install if the ABIs are mismatched or anything else like that, so take great care :-D

I think there is also a way to build a separate Mesa and use that with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, not tried it myself though.

[mmstick]

Can anyone make a better guide on installing the latest mesa with glamor AND s3tc support now that kernel 3.11-rc1 is out and runs well? I don't know too much about compiling some of the more complicated stuff nor feel too comfortable about messing around with trying to do it.

[mmstick]

You need to compile s3tc library from here http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/libtxc_dxtn/ and then compile mesa also with --enable-texture-float

Compiling and installing a custom version of mesa breaks the system, so no can do.

[Tommy666]

You need to compile s3tc library from here http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/libtxc_dxtn/ and then compile mesa also with --enable-texture-float

[mmstick]

Okay, don't compile that above. It will really break your system. I guess I'm stuck with Mesa 9.1 lacking S3TC texture support.

[mmstick]

Since the recent refresh of xorg-edgers repositories, it has become much easier to compile the necessary
mesa support without the need fro llvm3.3. Here is a recipe for easy enabling radeonsi,
tested working on both Ubuntu 12.10 & 13.04. This can be easily made into install script,
feel free to do it at your own convenience.

First, we need to temporarily enable xorg-edgers repo, just to retrieve the sources & some dev tools and libs

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential git xutils-dev xorg-dev
mkdir radeonsi
cd radeonsi
sudo add-apt-repository -y -s ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
apt-get source mesa
apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get -y build-dep mesa
sudo apt-get -y install mesa-utils
sudo add-apt-repository -r -y ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Next, we compile mesa, with gbm support enabled (this will take some time)

JOBS=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor | tail -n1 | awk '{ print $3 }')
ARCH=$([ "$(uname -m)" != "x86_64" ] && echo "i386" || echo "amd64")
MESAREVISION=$(ls -d mesa*/ | grep -o "9.[0-9].[0-9]~git[a-z0-9.+]*")
MESAPPAREVISION=$(ls mesa_$MESAREVISION*.dsc | grep -o "\-[0-9]ubuntu[0-9][a-z]*[~_a-z3864]*")
MESAPKGSUFFIX=${MESAREVISION}${MESAPPAREVISION}_${ARCH}.deb
ATIDRVREVISION=$(ls -d xserver-xorg-video-ati*/ | grep -o "[\.0-9]*+git[a-z0-9.]*")
ATIDRVPPAREVISION=$(ls xserver-xorg-video-ati_$ATIDRVREVISION*.dsc | grep -o "\-[0-9]ubuntu[0-9][a-z]*[~_a-z3864]*")
ATIDRVPKGSUFFIX=${ATIDRVREVISION}${ATIDRVPPAREVISION}_${ARCH}.deb
cd mesa-$MESAREVISION
sed -i 's|../../configure --prefix=/usr|../../configure --enable-gbm --prefix=/usr|' debian/rules
time dpkg-buildpackage -b -j$JOBS
cd ..

Next, assuming the mesa compilation was successful, we install mesa packages

sudo dpkg -i libegl1-mesa_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libegl1-mesa-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libegl1-mesa-drivers_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libgbm1_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libgbm-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libgl1-mesa-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libgl1-mesa-dri_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libgl1-mesa-glx_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libglapi-mesa_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libgles1-mesa_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libgles1-mesa-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libgles2-mesa_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libgles2-mesa-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             mesa-common-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libosmesa6_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libosmesa6-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libxatracker1_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libxatracker-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX libopenvg1-mesa_$MESAPKGSUFFIX \
             libopenvg1-mesa-dev_$MESAPKGSUFFIX

Next, time to compile and install glamor. Unfortunately, this will not be packaged into a deb, manuall install is nedeed

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/glamor
cd glamor
./autogen.sh --enable-glx-tls --prefix=/usr
make -j$JOBS
sudo make install
cd ..

Almost there, time to compile and install ati/radeon driver for X

sudo apt-get -y build-dep xserver-xorg-video-ati
cd xserver-xorg-video-ati-$ATIDRVREVISION
sed -i 's|\(XXV=xserver-xorg-video\)|\1\n\noverride_dh_auto_configure:\n\tdh_auto_configure -- --enable-glamor|' debian/rules
sed -i 's|dh_shlibdeps -- --warnings=6|dh_shlibdeps --dpkg-shlibdeps-params=--ignore-missing-info|' debian/rules
time dpkg-buildpackage -b -j$JOBS
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-ati_$ATIDRVPKGSUFFIX xserver-xorg-video-radeon_$ATIDRVPKGSUFFIX

Finally, all left to be done is a manual change of xorg.conf

[ -f /etc/xorg.conf ] && sudo cp /etc/xorg.conf /etc/xorg.conf.BACKUP.$(date -Iseconds)
TAB="$(printf '\t')"
sudo bash -c "cat > /etc/xorg.conf" << EOF
Section "Module"
${TAB}Load "dri2"
${TAB}Load "glamoregl"
EndSection

Section "Device"
${TAB}Identifier "ati"
${TAB}Driver "ati"
${TAB}Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
EOF

Now, if only somebody with the proper authority can convince xorg-edgers into adding --enable-gbm switch into mesa, this would be way more easier to do...
BTW, anyone heard of glamor deb package?

I get an error about

configure: error: Package requirements (libdrm >= 2.4.46) were not met:

Requested 'libdrm >= 2.4.46' but version of libdrm is 2.4.43

then completely fails.

[mmstick]

Now that mesa 9.1 is finally in raring, it is not necessary to compile mesa, even if 9.2 is probably better for radeonsi.
--enable-gbm was probably never needed, as it is already enabled by dependencies.

That leaves installing glamor, recompiling xserver-xorg-video-ati with glamor, and configuring xorg.conf

I have made a stab at packaging this at https://launchpad.net/~cybjit/+archive/ppa-glamor/.
After installing xserver-xorg-video-glamor and upgrading xserver-xorg-video-radeon, only configuring xorg.conf should be needed.

Now, does this not support Steam games? I tried playing games on Steam with this but I kept getting errors about install S3TC texture support (On Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit with this Radeon HD 7950).

[Cybjit]

Thanks for packaging glamor! Works great on raring, without messing up the system too much.
BTW, I tested compiled packages from sources at your ppa on Quantal (+mesa from xorg-edgers) and it also worked great. Thanks indeed!
You should consider talking to xorg-edgers people about integrating glamor...

You are welcome, I hope the packages does not mess up the system at all.
I might look into getting the ppa to rebuild for other releases, but I have not way of checking if they work there.
I will probably iterate a bit more before trying to send it on.

I also uploaded xserver-xorg-video-intel compiled against glamor, mostly to check that it works.
SNA is still default, xorg.conf needs to be configured for glamor to be enabled.

Section "Module"
    Load "dri2"
    Load "glamoregl" 
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "intel"
    Driver "intel"
    Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" 
EndSection