Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[frosth]

let me think... ubuntu has nothing to do in this case. As i know, xserver-xorg-video-ati - 1:7.1.0 doesn't set glamor acceleration by default for radeonsi. no glamor no fun
can you paste X log? in my distro: /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[mmstick]

http://pastebin.com/iRV16UCP

[frosth]

cat dmesg.mmstick | grep -i glamor
[     6.279] (II) LoadModule: "glamoregl"
[     6.280] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glamoregl
[     6.280] (II) UnloadModule: "glamoregl"
[     6.280] (II) Unloading glamoregl
[     6.280] (EE) Failed to load module "glamoregl" (module does not exist, 0)
[     6.318] (**) RADEON(0): Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
[     6.318] (EE) RADEON(0): glamor requires Load "glamoregl" in Section "Module", disabling.

Did You install "glamor-0.5-1~git20130313" package?

[mmstick]

What's the apt-get syntax for that? apt-get install glamor just says unable to locate package.

[frosth]

i don't use ubuntu, but try: "find / | grep -i glamoregl" - it always work.

or just install it(glamor package) from launchpad

[mmstick]

I ran sudo apt-get install glamor* and saw xserver-xorg-video-glamor and after rebooting it finally works. However, it does not work with kernel 3.11-rc1, back to llvmpipe, which I really want to get running thanks to all the radeonsi patches inside.

[mmstick]

Back on kernel 3.8, and now I'm faced with the age old problem before. There is no S3TC texture support, so I can't launch any Source games.

[frosth]

i don't know why.. but maybe you didn't get latest firmware ?

http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/

your Xlog said that you need files for "TAHITI" Chip

in my case firmware for radeon is here: /lib/firmware/radeon/, i hope ubuntu didn't change that in other case.. use google
... or "find / | grep -i TAHITI" to find the right place.

and at last, for DPM use "radeon.dpm=1" as a boot parametr.

[mmstick]

mmstick@mmstick-PC:~$ ls /lib/firmware/radeon | grep TAHITI
TAHITI_ce.bin
TAHITI_mc.bin
TAHITI_me.bin
TAHITI_pfp.bin
TAHITI_rlc.bin

Considering this is Ubuntu 13.04, and those files are last year, it's safe to say these are up-to-date as well.

[mmstick]

Okay I saw that smc.bin and uvd.bin wasn't there so I wgetted them and now I can get graphics rendering in kernel 3.11-rc1 and source games now launch...HOWEVER... all the text is corrupted and after a map loads the game crashes. The same is also happening with kernel 3.8. Something is borked.