Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  thanks, seems like changing kernel config helped, still no cigar 
though, xorg log says:

(II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!

  and lsmod confirms that fglrx is loaded

  but then fglrxinfo says:

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1)

  despite the fact the ldd confirms that /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 is used 
which is a diversion by fglrx-driver to: 
/usr/lib/fglrx/diversions/libGL.so.1

  and the openGL programs are slow so I'm pretty sure software 
rendering is used.

  any ideas where to go from here? Would you (or somebody else) mind 
posting relevant parts of xorg.conf (and perhaps kernel but I guess I 
have that part working since the kernel module is loaded)

  TIA

	erik

Richard wrote:
> On 19/06/06, Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >    Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the
> > latest xorg packages?
> >
> >    I installed fglrx packages (build the kernel module etc.) but it
> > doesn't seem to accept xorg 7:
> >
> > (II) fglrx(0): UMM Bus area:     0xd0acb000 (size=0x07535000)
> > (II) fglrx(0): UMM area:     0xd0acb000 (size=0x07535000)
> > (II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 6.8.x.y with x.y >= 99.8
> > (II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 7.0.0.0
> > (II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
> > (II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
> > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> > [drm] failed to load kernel module "fglrx"
> > (II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> > (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
> > (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
> > (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
> > (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
> > (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
> > (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
> > (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
> >
> >    does it mean it's not going to work until ATI releases a new driver
> > with support for xorg 7? Anybody had any success with the free driver
> > (it has at least some 3D experimental features).
> >
> >    relevant packages:
> >
> > ii  fglrx-control                   8.24.8-1
> > ii  fglrx-driver                    8.24.8-1
> > ii  fglrx-driver-dev                8.24.8-1
> > ii  fglrx-kernel-2.6.15jojda        8.24.8-1+jojda.0
> > ii  fglrx-kernel-src                8.24.8-1
> >
> > ii  xserver-xorg                    7.0.22
> >
> >    TIA,
> >
> >         erik
> Hi Eric
> I also had a lot of trouble to get this going on debian ... it seems
> the fglrx driver doesn't like it when the kernel was compiled with
> including CONFIG_DRM=y and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y ... When you compiled
> this kernel-module you also have to modprobe this into the kernel "modprobe
> fglrx" ... when DRM was already compiled into the kernel this modprobe
> will fail.
>
>
>
>
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