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On Monday 31 January 2011 19:28:27 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> The system is an AMD-based Acer Aspire One 14" laptop with 4-gigs of |
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> ram, running 64-bit mode. The video card, according to "lspci -v"... |
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> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712 |
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> (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) |
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> Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 |
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> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 |
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> Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] |
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> I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] |
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> Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] |
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> Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] |
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> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] |
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> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 |
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> Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ |
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> Kernel driver in use: radeon |
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> 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 970f |
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> Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 |
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> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 |
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> Memory at d0110000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] |
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> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 |
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> Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ |
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> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel |
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> mplayer can only run "-vo x11", not "-vo xv" which I see on every |
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> other Gentoo machine I've had. Video playback suffers accordingly. |
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> Here's a snippet from dmesg bootup stuff that looks relavant, especially |
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> the last 6 lines... |
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> [ 0.250870] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 |
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> [ 0.250972] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting. |
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> [ 0.251009] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. |
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> [ 0.251160] radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ |
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> 18 [ 0.251204] radeon 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 |
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> [ 0.253225] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS880 0x1002:0x9712). |
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> [ 0.253339] [drm] register mmio base: 0xD0100000 |
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> [ 0.253376] [drm] register mmio size: 65536 |
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> [ 0.253512] ATOM BIOS: Acer_JE40HM42DN |
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> [ 0.253584] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 256M 0xC0000000 - 0xCFFFFFFF |
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> (256M used) [ 0.253632] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0xA0000000 - |
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> 0xBFFFFFFF [ 0.253814] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M |
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> [ 0.253856] [drm] RAM width 32bits DDR |
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> [ 0.253972] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1899810 kiB. |
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> [ 0.254010] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator. |
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> [ 0.254061] [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready |
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> [ 0.254099] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. |
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> [ 0.254174] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. |
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> [ 0.254212] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 |
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> [ 0.255276] [drm] Loading RS780 Microcode |
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> [ 60.896232] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R600_rlc.bin" |
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> [ 60.896274] [drm:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! |
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> [ 60.896313] radeon 0000:01:05.0: disabling GPU acceleration |
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> [ 60.897418] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary |
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> [ 60.897456] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary |
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> Any ideas what's going wrong, and especially how to fix it? |
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Have you followed the instructions on this page re: radeon-ucode and the |
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kernel configuration |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml |
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If so, what does ls -la /lib/firmware/radeon/ show? Is R600_rlc.bin showing |
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up in there? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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