Open-Source ATI R500 3D Milestone!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open-Source ATI R500 3D Milestone!

Coming just a day after AMD had opened up their production microcode from their proprietary drivers for the R100 to R600 GPUs, a significant milestone has been reached in the road to open-source 3D graphics capabilities for the Radeon X1000 (R500) series. We now have hardware-accelerated glxgears!

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12073

[d2kx]

Wow.

I'll wait till the first 3D work goes into master, but still, impressive...

[fragro]

I'm impressed!!!

[dotancohen]

When I realized what a mess ATI drivers were when I got my Dell Inspiron with the X1400 back in January 2007, I was very disappointed and swore off ATI, with the promise that I will never buy another ATI or AMD component again. I take that back. I am proud of ATI since they've changed face last September, and they are rather close to earning me back as a customer.

[Svartalf]

When I realized what a mess ATI drivers were when I got my Dell Inspiron with the X1400 back in January 2007, I was very disappointed and swore off ATI, with the promise that I will never buy another ATI or AMD component again. I take that back. I am proud of ATI since they've changed face last September, and they are rather close to earning me back as a customer.

Indeed. That's my current take on things. It's still not there yet, but that's not because of ATI's doings, save indirectly (It took 'em long enough to get us data... ;) ). In the end, I'm still not using ATI, not because they're not the choice- the support's not gelled enough yet. Until that's the story, I still can't tell someone to get one of AMD's GPUs yet.

[puntarenas]

I am proud of ATI since they've changed face last September, and they are rather close to earning me back as a customer.

Let me second that, all I need is some more performace (Windows gaming, sorry folks :p), but I'm sure RV770 will satisfy my needs.

[martinjh99]

I have a RV515 (X1300) and will certainly run this free driver if it runs Compiz properly...

Can never get compiz to work with the non-free drivers!

[Sadako]

I just tried this (ie compiled and installed mesalib, libdrm and the drm kernel modules) from David Airlie's git repo.

`startx` locked up my machine completely, however I have this in my Xorg.0.log (after a hard reset :( );(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer.
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
Solid Lines
Scanline Image Writes
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
32 256x256 slots
16 512x512 slots
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled

I also have this in the system logs;Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.28.0 20060524 on minor 0
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] writeback test failed

This is with an x1950 pro agp card (rv570).

I know I really can't expect to get this working right now, however the Xorg.0.log has kind of got my hopes up, anyone have any ideas of anything I could try?

I'd be perfectly happy just to have direct rendering working...

[NaterGator]

I just tried this (ie compiled and installed mesalib, libdrm and the drm kernel modules) from David Airlie's git repo.
...

I also have this in the system logs;Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.28.0 20060524 on minor 0
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
Mar 21 19:00:43 [kernel] [drm] writeback test failed

This is with an x1950 pro agp card (rv570).

I know I really can't expect to get this working right now, however the Xorg.0.log has kind of got my hopes up, anyone have any ideas of anything I could try?

I'd be perfectly happy just to have direct rendering working...

Your DRM module is loading the R300 microcode and it looks like it is an old version. Are you sure you are loading the new DRM module you built? It normally drops them in /usr/local

[Dandel]

This is most definately a huge achievement... I can't wait to see what else will happen, because it's going to open the field heavily once more of the opengl support is coded in to the driver.

[surfer]

Your DRM module is loading the R300 microcode and it looks like it is an old version. Are you sure you are loading the new DRM module you built? It normally drops them in /usr/local

FYI, I have a working glxgears on my X1800 (R520) and the DRM kernel module (from Dave's repository) also says "loading R300 code". When I built the version that's packaged with the kernel, it does say loading R500 microcode, but I haven't tested that with Dave's mesa and it may not be compatible right now.

edit: i applied the new microcode patch and everything is still OK. this guy's problems is most likely not related to which version of microcode.

[agd5f]

FYI, I have a working glxgears on my X1800 (R520) and the DRM kernel module (from Dave's repository) also says "loading R300 code". When I built the version that's packaged with the kernel, it does say loading R500 microcode, but I haven't tested that with Dave's mesa and it may not be compatible right now.

Dave created his r500 branch before I merged the new microcode. It's easy enough to merge master into Dave's branch though. At this point, I doubt you'll see much difference however.

[kaimerra]

I installed the Radeon driver following this post here (http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9951).

My chip is not recognized, see glxinfo below.

brian@defiant:~$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
unknown chip id 0x71c5, can't guess.
libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
libGL error: InitDriver failed
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2


Is my chip not supported yet, or did I mess something up?

[elanthis]

Is my chip not supported yet, or did I mess something up?

Thread necromancer!

Are you sure you're running the newly compiled driver and not the one shipped with your distro? Sounds like you're running an old version of the driver. A quick search on Google indicates that a few other people have had the same issue, and it turned out to be that the wrong driver was being loaded.