"Ask ATI" dev thread

[PuckPoltergeist]

AFAIK the Win7 driver API (WDDM 1.1) is for 6xx-and-up products only since it requires DX10 support.

Hm, I don't think so:

[bridgman]

That slide says that the DX10 API can be used on DX9 hardware, which is true. I believe there are actually 5 levels of support within DX10, 3 for DX9 hardware and 2 for DX10 hardware.

AFAIK the Vista-level Aero interface uses DX10L9 when running Win7 on DX9 hardware (and you can do that with a Vista driver).

The full slide set gives some more context :

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...T515_WH08.pptx

[djdoo]

Sorry to make a question not 'compatible' with the above discussion but can someone tell me why i can use resolution '1440x900' at vista at 75Hz refresh rate and at Linux only at 60Hz??

Details: I connect my Syncmaster T190 monitor via DVI at an HD 3450 card, Linux openSUSE 11.1, Xserver 1.5.2, Catalyst 9.2 installed.

The strange fact is that amdcccle reports 75Hz as maximum refresh rate but at monitor preferences where you set resolution and refresh rate it only lets me choose 60Hz...

Any ideas or knowledge on this??

[djdoo]

Also another one:
Does anyone of you guys managed to set up Hybrid Crossfire at an Xorg 7.4 environment?? (always speaking for xserver 1.5.x)

Cause at opensuse 11 with Xorg 7.3 i set up things at once but now at opensuse 11.1 which uses xserver 1.5.2 and Xorg 7.4 whenever I enable the crossfire chain my PC stops booting when loading X. Doesn't freeze, just stops booting procedure and screen remains black when it supposed to show mouse X cursor you know...

[djdoo]

And a comment for the previous discussion...

Aero just doesn't diserve to be regarded or called a 3D compositing window manager...

Anyone who have seen or used Compiz, KDE 4's 3D effects or even the good old Beryl understands what I mean...

Just ignore it and use Virtualbox inside a Linux system to install win XP, if you obligatoraly need a windoze environment, and then spin it with Compiz!...

[djdoo]

Hey anyone for me guys??

[avilella]

hybrid graphics laptops?

Does anybody know what are the current laptops with ati powerxpress?

The ones I've found so far are in this blog:

http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 (ati)
Lenovo ThinkPad T400 (ati)
ASUS M51Ta (ati)
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Sa 3650 (ati)
MSI PX211 12'' (ati)
HP Pavilion tx2500 (ati)

Anyone?

[cruiseoveride]

Can you post your log please ?

Here is the Xorg.log with latest drivers (9.3 x86_64). http://pastebin.com/f1a072609

Same deal, just a blank screen when you try and start X. None of the catalyst drivers have ever worked. Tried both Ubuntu and Fedora. Distro builds or from the ati-installer.

XP/Vista catalyst works, and so does the open source drivers, so the card should be OK.

AMD 4200+, Asus A8N-Sli, Visiontek HD4870, 2Gb ram, FC10 x86_64

[eugrus]

When UVD for Linux is gonna work?

And is it gonna work whenever at all?

[fbrujan]

Help with fglrx

Hello all, i am new in the forum
i am having the following: (the screen became black)
"[fglrx] It's not necessary to adjust system aperture on this ASIC" each time the ac-power fail. i have to do Alt+Ctrl+F2 and Alt+F1 to get back my X-session.
Also if i try to log-off the laptop hangup
if i try to switch-user the laptop hangup

This is my fglrxinfo output:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon X1200 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8543 Release


this is my dmesg output:

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 800 MBytes.
[fglrx] vendor: 1002 device: 791f count: 1
[fglrx] ioport: bar 4, base 0x9000, size: 0x100
[fglrx] Kernel PAT support detected, disabling driver built-in PAT support
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.59.2 [Mar 13 2009] with 1 minors
[fglrx] GART Table is not in FRAME_BUFFER range
[fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 3477
[fglrx] Gart cacheable size:436 M.
[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000
[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:7ffc000, size:4000
[fglrx] It's not necessary to adjust system aperture on this ASIC
[fglrx] It's not necessary to adjust system aperture on this ASIC
[fglrx] It's not necessary to adjust system aperture on this ASIC
[fglrx] It's not necessary to adjust system aperture on this ASIC


this is my lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7914
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
14:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
14:06.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
14:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
14:06.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)


if i remove the fglrx drivers i do not receive the message and everything work properly (except for the video, of course).

Please help!!!!.