Avivo R500 Linux Driver Status

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Avivo R500 Linux Driver Status

A month ago we told you that Avivo v0.1.0 (the open-source ATI R500 X1000 Linux driver) was coming soon, but still we have not seen this release. Talking with Jerome Glisse (the main Avivo developer), the v0.1.0 release is postponed until he or another willing open-source developer fixes issues with the Radeon X1200, X1300, X1400, and X1900 to allow for properly setting the TMDS on these graphics cards.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTk2NQ

[rolz]

huh, i'll see if i can do anything for the x1400 in a two weeks time I guess. But there's so much to learn..

I hope a large amount of people join in, maybe documenting all the current stuff, and pointing to a bunch of tutorials could help.

[chrisr]

Phoronix: Avivo R500 Linux Driver Status

Talking with Jerome Glisse (the main Avivo developer), the v0.1.0 release is postponed until he or another willing open-source developer fixes issues with the Radeon X1200, X1300, X1400, and X1900 to allow for properly setting the TMDS on these graphics cards.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTk2NQ

Fair enough, he needs information. So what kind of information can people provide? Are we talking about dumps from people who are successfully using these graphics cards with the fglrx driver and an LCD panel? I have a laptop with an embedded FireGL 5250 (R530, I believe) which sort-of-works with the fglrx. Maybe if someone could provide a script that would generate the useful information then we could get the 0.1.0 release out the door after all?

[glisse]

Fair enough, he needs information. So what kind of information can people provide? Are we talking about dumps from people who are successfully using these graphics cards with the fglrx driver and an LCD panel? I have a laptop with an embedded FireGL 5250 (R530, I believe) which sort-of-works with the fglrx. Maybe if someone could provide a script that would generate the useful information then we could get the 0.1.0 release out the door after all?

What i need is a vbe modesetting bios dump for 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 (and for native resolution). For doing this grab http://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/vbespy.tar.bz2 and make then ./vbetest 2> /dev/null note mode number corresponding to resoltuion 800x600 8:8:8 ... then q then
./vbetest -m <800600modenumber> 2> firegl5250-800x600
./vbetest -m <1024768modenumber> 2> firegl5250-1024x768
...

You should see some colored picture on screen. Once you got all dumps pack them together bzip2 and send them to me or put them somewhere on the net.

PS: You need to be root under console and it's better if X is not running and that fglrx is not loaded (in fact it's better doing them after cold boot without X being loaded so flgrx can't mess up with the card).

[atippett]

I have a 5250 firegl on a thinkpad t60p

I think I've done what you wanted. Let me know if not.

http://files-upload.com/files/427667/firegl-5250-vbe-mode-results.tbz2

What i need is a vbe modesetting bios dump for 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 (and for native resolution). For doing this grab http://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/vbespy.tar.bz2 and make then ./vbetest 2> /dev/null note mode number corresponding to resoltuion 800x600 8:8:8 ... then q then
./vbetest -m <800600modenumber> 2> firegl5250-800x600
./vbetest -m <1024768modenumber> 2> firegl5250-1024x768
...

You should see some colored picture on screen. Once you got all dumps pack them together bzip2 and send them to me or put them somewhere on the net.

PS: You need to be root under console and it's better if X is not running and that fglrx is not loaded (in fact it's better doing them after cold boot without X being loaded so flgrx can't mess up with the card).

[glisse]

I have a 5250 firegl on a thinkpad t60p

I think I've done what you wanted. Let me know if not.

http://files-upload.com/files/427667/firegl-5250-vbe-mode-results.tbz2

You where not under a terminal, you can't do this through ssh or under a console in X you need to be in text mode as without X running. See message at bottom of files you supplied. If it works you should see a picture on screen until you see no pictures on screen this means this does not work.

[atippett]

You where not under a terminal, you can't do this through ssh or under a console in X you need to be in text mode as without X running. See message at bottom of files you supplied. If it works you should see a picture on screen until you see no pictures on screen this means this does not work.


OK I was able to get er done.

New files located at:
http://files-upload.com/files/428455/firegl-5250-vbespy-results.tbz2

Sorry for the wait to download timer.. i guess that's a result of free? not!

[mile]

Working here on nc8430 (x1600) at 1650x1080 with shadowbf.
Ubuntu Gutsy, kernel 2.6.22-9,Xorg 1.3.0

it is working better than 8.39.4 for me...xv overlay missing, but videos play as bad as with fgrlx , so I think I will use this driver and wait for something better :)

keep up the good work

[atippett]

Working here on nc8430 (x1600) at 1650x1080 with shadowbf.
Ubuntu Gutsy, kernel 2.6.22-9,Xorg 1.3.0

it is working better than 8.39.4 for me...xv overlay missing, but videos play as bad as with fgrlx , so I think I will use this driver and wait for something better :)

keep up the good work

Should my ati firegl mobility 5250 work with the avivo driver?

Can someone post their xorg.conf file? I tried using the avivo driver and got card not found or something.

Does this driver support AIGLX and if not what needs to be done to support it? I realize that this is a fairly new in it's development stages but whatever I need to do to help, let me know.

[mile]

AIGLX is wet dream even for official fglrx driver :)

no accelerated stuff in this driver...yet

[Michael]

AIGLX is wet dream even for official fglrx driver :)

Well, a wet dream with the current fglrx driver... You'll need to draw your own beliefs whether there will be AIGLX in the new driver :rolleyes:.

[Songmao Tian]

Is there any wiki/maillist for the driver

[Michael]

Is there any wiki/maillist for the driver

Aside from like dri-devel, there isn't a dedicated one right now for the Avivo driver.

[Songmao Tian]

Aside from like dri-devel, there isn't a dedicated one right now for the Avivo driver.



Thanks, another question, I have several patch for xserver-xorg-video-ati, where can i submit the patch?

[Michael]

If it's a patch for the mainstream driver and not some distribution-specific bit, try submitting the patch to David Airlie -- http://www.phoronix.com/forums/member.php?u=3457 or http://airlied.livejournal.com/profile

[d2kx]

Did you know that Fedora 8 will have Avivo included?