Re: [gentoo-user] two ati-drivers packages using --deep --update

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/7/05, Manuel McLure <manuel@××××××.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > From someone on the LKML I found out that the ATI binary drivers won't
> > work on a 64-bit kernel so this is suddently not such an issue for me.
>
> The 32-bit drivers won't work on a 64-bit kernel, but ATI does provide
> 64-bit binary drivers as well (and the ebuild should download the
> correct one depending on whether you're on a 64-bit or 32-bit Gentoo
> install.)
>
> --

Manuel,
   Hi. Are you able to make this work? I'm not. (so far...)

1) I emerged ati-drivers-8.18.8-r1. Is that new enough?

lightning ~ # emerge -pv ati-drivers

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/ati-drivers-8.18.8-r1  +opengl 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #

2) I ran the app referenced in the emerge output to set up xrog.config:

aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

3) I looked at xorg.conf. It looks OK, if a bit confusing. Now it
appears that the developers are attempting to make a single xorg.conf
that works with either the radeon driver or the fglrx driver? That
would be nice.

4) I switched to fglrx in /etc/modules.audtoload.d/kernel.2.6 and rebooted.

5) fglrx did not load:
lightning ~ # lsmod | grep fglrx
lightning ~ #

6) Xorg.0.log results:

NOTE: There is no DRI for PCI Express cards yet. 2.6.15 I'm told.

lightning ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Current Operating System: Linux lightning 2.6.14-rt6 #2 PREEMPT Fri
Nov 4 15:49:09 PST 2005 x86_64
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) fglrx(0): === [R200DALSetControllerConfigForRemap] === CWDDC
ControllerSetConfig failed: 6 - 1
lightning ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd7000000,0xff0000)
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd6000000,0x1ff0000)
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd4000000,0x3ff0000)
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x7ff0000)
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
lightning ~ #

7) mtrr problems:

dmesg
<SNIP>
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lightning ~ #
lightning ~ # cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xd7fe0000 (3455MB), size=  64KB: write-combining, count=1
reg02: base=0xd7fc0000 (3455MB), size= 128KB: write-combining, count=1
reg03: base=0xd7f80000 (3455MB), size= 256KB: write-combining, count=1
reg04: base=0xd7f00000 (3455MB), size= 512KB: write-combining, count=1
reg05: base=0xd7e00000 (3454MB), size=   1MB: write-combining, count=1
reg06: base=0xd7c00000 (3452MB), size=   2MB: write-combining, count=1
reg07: base=0xd7800000 (3448MB), size=   4MB: write-combining, count=1
lightning ~ #

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