Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

[Jannis Achstetter]

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Iain Buchanan schrieb:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:21 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote:
>> You can check your config with "glxinfo | grep direct" which should
>> return "Yes".
>
> $ glxinfo | grep direct
> direct rendering: No
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
Ok, now we know why ...
>
>>  If it doesn't, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (assuming
>> we are talking about display "0".
>
> I see a:
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
> (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>     compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
>     ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
Fine, Xorg can load his DRI-module
>
> and
>
> (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
>
>     *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500
>     *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree.
>     *** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available from
Mesa CVS.
>     *** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net
>     *** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07.
>
>
> Don't tell me my 9600 isn't supported by the radeon driver?...
> also, there's this interesting section that I'm having trouble
understanding:
> (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
>
>     *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500
>     *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree.
>     *** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available from
Mesa CVS.
>     *** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net
>     *** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07.
>
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 6
> drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:00.0"
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe13b2000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe13b2000 to 0xb7f07000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf0000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
> (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
> (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
> is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe13b2000 at
0xb7f07000
>
> but agpgart and radeon are both "compiled in" to the kernel.
>
> I heard something about the RV350 or RV300 (not sure) chipset not being
> supported - is this true?
>
> thanks,

Since the very recent release of Xorg they added 3D-support for your
card but it is "highly experimental". It seems that it didn't work
100% with your box.
I'm sorry I can't really help you with your problem now, you might
find something interesting here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=110008

    Jannis Achstetter
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