Open-Source ATI 6.8.0 Driver Released

[NaterGator]

I'm trying to get this to work on gentoo and compiled the most recent DRM module, placed and loaded them, compiled the 6.8.0 driver, but I can't tell a difference.

Xorg doesn't acknowledge the TexturedVideo option in my conf (or the radeon driver doesn't?) and EXA causes my system to hard freeze. I can't even REISUB recover it

I'm going to build mesa from git too and see if that helps, but I'm stumped.

[agd5f]

Xorg doesn't acknowledge the TexturedVideo option in my conf (or the radeon driver doesn't?) and EXA causes my system to hard freeze. I can't even REISUB recover it

I'm going to build mesa from git too and see if that helps, but I'm stumped.

6.8.0 did not include support for textured video. you'll need xf86-video-ati from git.

[NaterGator]

Thanks. Is there any reason for me to manually replace mesa with an update from git? I just did a make linux-dir-x86-64 and it compiled mesa for me, but the libraries are much bigger than my current ones. I suspect that's partially due to me compiling in debug info and partially because there have been updates.

I'm going to compiled new drivers from git now and test 'em out. Thanks again!

[agd5f]

Thanks. Is there any reason for me to manually replace mesa with an update from git? I just did a make linux-dir-x86-64 and it compiled mesa for me, but the libraries are much bigger than my current ones. I suspect that's partially due to me compiling in debug info and partially because there have been updates.

For textured video and render all you need is an updated xf86-video-ati.

[mal13]

I installed radeonhd... hopefully. It was quite exhausting as i had to install lots of other tools, dev stuff etc to get installation run through.
I'm not so familiar w/ commands so how do i see if it's ok or not, fglrxinfo doesn't work and glxinfo gives long er list but it mentions mesa there.
On xorg.conf there's radeonhd written.

[djdoo]

@Alex:
Em... you didn't answer me my friend..

Why I always get this error:

Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

Xorg.0.log sais glx OK module loaded, DRI instrallation OK, EXA works, Textured VIdeo very good quality-low CPU(except the diagonial tearing at fast motion).

Do you need my new Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf files??
Just tell me to pastebin them!

Thanks in advance
Jim

[NaterGator]

No dice. Just finished compiling and installing the driver. My Xorg.0.log confirms textured video is started, and xvinfo shows the pseudo adapter, but when I run:
mplayer -vo xvort=74 content/TV\ Shows/Top\ Gear/Top\ Gear\ -\ \[10x10\]\ -\ 2007.12.23.avi

I get an mplayer window which freezes an image of whatever it appeared over and a whole lot of "X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 1 0 " on the console.

[NaterGator]

Jim what do you see when you run lsmod? It sounds like you've still got linger fglrx issues.

[djdoo]

This problem happens when I install Mesa from git. If I use the Mesa provided by suse packages I get another error saying unknown chip 0x791e and also it sais no fbtables or something.

I tried a hybrid situation where I installed only the dri modules at /usr/lib64/dri and used the libGL provided by suse latest Mesa packeges.
Then I see Mesa information and the rest extensions at glxinfo by again unknown chip and no DRI!

I am very comfused with Mesa stuff... :s

[djdoo]

Here it is lsmod:

djdoo@dhcppc0:~> lsmod
Module Size Used by
iptable_filter 20224 0
ip_tables 40024 1 iptable_filter
ip6_tables 33736 0
x_tables 38920 2 ip_tables,ip6_tables
radeon 145808 2
drm 205480 3 radeon
af_packet 42248 2
rfcomm 62240 0
l2cap 43776 9 rfcomm
bluetooth 83588 4 rfcomm,l2cap
snd_pcm_oss 70144 0
snd_mixer_oss 35712 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi 27648 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 26112 0
snd_emux_synth 59648 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 24960 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_event 25600 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul 24192 1 snd_emux_synth
f71882fg 30088 0
snd_seq 82928 5 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_se q_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul
cpufreq_conservative 26248 0
cpufreq_userspace 24068 0
cpufreq_powersave 18816 0
powernow_k8 32656 1
binfmt_misc 30220 1
nls_iso8859_1 22144 1
nls_cp437 23936 1
vfat 31232 1
fat 75568 1 vfat
fuse 71856 3
loop 37636 0
dm_mod 88168 0
snd_emu10k1 174224 3 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 46720 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
firmware_class 28032 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hda_intel 411048 1
snd_ac97_codec 140360 1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 19456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 26516 6 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_ seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm 116360 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel,snd_ac97_cod ec
snd_util_mem 22784 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 44168 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
rndis_host 24576 0
snd_page_alloc 28688 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cdc_ether 23808 1 rndis_host
usbnet 38792 2 rndis_host,cdc_ether
ohci1394 51124 0
snd_hwdep 28424 3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel
emu10k1_gp 21120 0
snd 91512 22 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1 _synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi _emul,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_inte l,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_util_m em,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
ieee1394 122200 1 ohci1394
shpchp 53404 0
i2c_piix4 26252 0
gameport 33936 2 emu10k1_gp
rtc_cmos 25912 0
sr_mod 35236 0
i2c_core 44160 1 i2c_piix4
pci_hotplug 50096 1 shpchp
k8temp 23040 0
mii 23040 1 usbnet
rtc_core 40716 1 rtc_cmos
cdrom 53544 1 sr_mod
soundcore 26000 1 snd
serio_raw 24836 0
hwmon 20488 2 f71882fg,k8temp
rtc_lib 20224 1 rtc_core
button 27168 0
sg 56240 0
floppy 82056 0
usbhid 64848 0
hid 56080 1 usbhid
ff_memless 23048 1 usbhid
ehci_hcd 54540 0
ohci_hcd 42244 0
usbcore 184480 7 rndis_host,cdc_ether,usbnet,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_h cd
sd_mod 47616 7
edd 27784 0
ext3 170384 2
mbcache 27136 1 ext3
jbd 82240 1 ext3
fan 22920 0
pata_atiixp 26112 0
ahci 48644 5
libata 189856 2 pata_atiixp,ahci
scsi_mod 193960 4 sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,libata
thermal 38688 0
processor 68040 2 powernow_k8,thermal