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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Not getting video hardware acceleration
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:10:43
Message-Id: 20110131192827.GB5589@waltdnes.org
1 The system is an AMD-based Acer Aspire One 14" laptop with 4-gigs of
2 ram, running 64-bit mode. The video card, according to "lspci -v"...
3
4 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712
5 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
6 Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372
7 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
8 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
9 I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
10 Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
11 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
12 Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
13 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
14 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
15 Kernel driver in use: radeon
16
17 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 970f
18 Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372
19 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
20 Memory at d0110000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
21 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
22 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
23 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
24
25 mplayer can only run "-vo x11", not "-vo xv" which I see on every
26 other Gentoo machine I've had. Video playback suffers accordingly.
27 Here's a snippet from dmesg bootup stuff that looks relavant, especially
28 the last 6 lines...
29
30 [ 0.250870] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
31 [ 0.250972] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
32 [ 0.251009] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
33 [ 0.251160] radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
34 [ 0.251204] radeon 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64
35 [ 0.253225] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS880 0x1002:0x9712).
36 [ 0.253339] [drm] register mmio base: 0xD0100000
37 [ 0.253376] [drm] register mmio size: 65536
38 [ 0.253512] ATOM BIOS: Acer_JE40HM42DN
39 [ 0.253584] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 256M 0xC0000000 - 0xCFFFFFFF (256M used)
40 [ 0.253632] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0xA0000000 - 0xBFFFFFFF
41 [ 0.253814] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M
42 [ 0.253856] [drm] RAM width 32bits DDR
43 [ 0.253972] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1899810 kiB.
44 [ 0.254010] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator.
45 [ 0.254061] [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready
46 [ 0.254099] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
47 [ 0.254174] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
48 [ 0.254212] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
49 [ 0.255276] [drm] Loading RS780 Microcode
50 [ 60.896232] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R600_rlc.bin"
51 [ 60.896274] [drm:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
52 [ 60.896313] radeon 0000:01:05.0: disabling GPU acceleration
53 [ 60.897418] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary
54 [ 60.897456] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary
55
56 Any ideas what's going wrong, and especially how to fix it?
57
58 --
59 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>

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