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On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 08:13:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 07/10/2011 02:21 AM, Grant wrote: |
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> > When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of |
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> > fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers. xf86-video-nouveau didn't |
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> > have the same problem. Now I've switched to an ATI video card and |
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> > unfortunately I have the same problem with xf86-video-ati. I tried to |
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> > enable the new modesetting radeon driver in the kernel to see if that |
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> > would help but it doesn't work with my HD4250 card yet. |
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> It should work. But you need firmware that is not included in the |
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> kernel. You need to install the x11-drivers/radeon-ucode package, and |
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> then build a kernel that includes the appropriate firmware. Which |
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> firmware file (one of the *.bin files in /lib/firmware/radeon) is needed |
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> should be printed during boot; at the moment the kernel hangs, it should |
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> print which firmware file it was trying to load. |
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> On my HD4870, I configured it like so: |
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> In "Device Drivers -> Generic Driver Options", I've set: |
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> (radeon/R700_rlc.bin) External firmware blobs to build into the kernel |
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> binary |
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> (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory |
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> Then rebuild and install the kernel. Before you reboot, make sure you |
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> have built media-libs/mesa with the "gallium" USE flag set, and do an |
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> "eselect mesa set r600 gallium". Make sure you don't have disabled KMS |
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> in the kernel command line or module options ("radeon.modeset=0" |
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> disables KMS). After you reboot, you should have KMS + Gallium3D working. |
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I think the OP's card needs R600_rcl.bin as I've suggested in a previous |
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message. |
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Is the gallium stable now? I found it was locking up a kde desktop with |
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effects enabled and set it back to classic. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |