Re: [gentoo-user] can't get accelerated opengl renderer ati radeon xpress 200M

[Marc Joliet]

Am Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:12:39 -0700
schrieb Tony Miller <mcfiredrill@×××××.com>:

> I've been trying for awhile now to get the accelerated opengl renderer
> working on my radeon xpress 200M card(which is supposedly an rv370 or
> rs4000 according to this wiki page:
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon). I've been following this
> guide alot: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
>
> I know it is important to change this string from glxinfo:
>
> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>
> to this:
>
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5C61) 20090101
> x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL DRI2
>
> But I'm not sure how.
>
> This error in my xorg.log seems to be the key:

[SNIP xorg error]
Sorry, I don't know what to make of that.

> Well the directory /dev/dri/ is empty, so there you go.
>
> I have these package versions:
>
> xorg-server 1.7.6
> mesa 7.8
> libdrm 2.4.19
> xf86-video-ati 6.12.192
> xorg-drivers 1.7

I have those, too, except I upgraded to mesa-7.8.1 and xf86-video-ati-6.13.0
last night.

> I have drm set in my kernel too:
>
> tony@o_0 ~ $ zgrep DRM /proc/config.gz
> CONFIG_DRM=m
> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m
> CONFIG_DRM_TTM=m
> # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set
> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m
> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y
> # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_I830 is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_I915 is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_VIA is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_CH7006 is not set

I have the exact same options set.

[SNIP glxinfo, xorg.conf]

I also have an empty xorg.conf, maybe it's worth trying it out. Perhaps you
just have a bad combination of options (even if you got them from the "official"
documentation)?

> If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Would posting to the xorg
> or radeon mailing lists be good places for help as well?

I have one idea: which Kernel are you using? I have gentoo-sources-2.6.33
installed. I read that the radeon devs recommend to use kernel versions >=2.6.33
for KMS instead of 2.6.32.

Just goes to show how different ones experience with the same software can be.
For me and my HD4650 (r6xx) it was smooth sailing: I followed Gentoos 3D
acceleration guide and just needed to install the radeon-ucode package and
everything "just worked".
-- 
Marc Joliet