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On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:38, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I've been trying to get 3D working on a amd64(pci-3e) mobo that has an ATI |
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> 1900 video card: |
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> TI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary |
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> I first setup the radeon driver and it crawled with bzflag (the 3D software |
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> I test with). |
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> So I've been trying to get the ati-drivers to work. This web page seems to |
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> indicate it should work and provide 3D accelerataton on linux: |
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> https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.26.18.html#181179 |
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> I've been trying various version of x11-drm libdrm and ati-drivers. |
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> Somehow I've gotten the drivers so hosed that starx does makes the screen |
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> go black and I have to ssh in just to reboot. Killing off processes |
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> does not seem to be effective at regaining control of the screen. |
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> Here the latest error I get, revdep-rebuild does not help: |
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> make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r4' |
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> * DRM module not built |
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> Source compiled. |
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> Test phase [not enabled]: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 |
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> |
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> Install ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 into |
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> /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1/image/ category x11-drivers |
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> * Installing fglrx module |
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> install: cannot stat `fglrx.ko': No such file or directory |
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> |
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> !!! ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 failed. |
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> Call stack: |
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> ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_install |
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> ebuild.sh, line 1020: Called src_install |
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> ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1.ebuild, line 205: Called linux-mod_src_install |
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> linux-mod.eclass, line 540: Called die |
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> 11-base/x11-drm |
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> Installed: 20060608 |
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> x11-drivers/ati-drivers |
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> Installed: 8.30.3-r1 |
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> The above crash_log is when trying to downgrade to the ati-drivers |
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> from 8.30.3-r1 to 8.27.10-r1. |
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> Any ideas? |
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> Assume nothing as the last few days has been an exercise if futility |
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> for me.... |
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> James |
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Yep. This is a known problem and there have been bugs open on it for a while. |
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Not sure why it isn't fixed yet, my uneducated guess is upstream. Upstream in |
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this case is very poor at the linux side of their software... |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156876 |
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