Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (300 mails)

[Coleman Kane <cokane@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:50 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 12:36 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > On May 08, 08 13:45:36 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> > > > >   git://people.freedesktop.org/~mhopf/radeonhd
> > > >
> > > > Success!
> > > >
> > > > DRI is now working on RS690, have been playing torcs yesterday evening
> > > > :-)))  Performance is actually pretty decent.
> > >
> > > Does this need the latest drm, mesa, xorg-server sources from git? Or
> > > can it work with the latest X.org release?
> >
> > There are a few components involved:
> >
> > - Xserver:  version pretty much irrelevant, should work with old ones
> > - libdrm:   AFACS doesn't have to be top of line either
> > - drm:      The kernel modules must be recent, other don't have RS690 
> > support
> > - radeonhd: The private repository mentioned above :-)
> > - Mesa:     Since Friday (or so) the last patch I sent to the mailing
> >             list was included by Alex. This is necessary on *some* RS690s.
> >         Even if it's not necessary, you need a *very* recent Mesa git.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Matthias
>
> I got it all installed on my FreeBSD 8.0 system. I had to make some
> changes to the drm sources, as the BSD side of the kernel drivers
> haven't kept up the pace of the Linux drivers:
> http://www.cokane.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=drm.git (cokane-master
> branch)
> The fd-master branch is what I pull down from fd.o.
>
> The driver seems to get set up properly in the kernel:
> drm0: <ATI Radeon RS690 X1270 IGP> on vgapci0
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.28.0 20060524
> info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly.
> info: [drm] Loading RS690 Microcode
> info: [drm] Num pipes: 1
> info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> drm0: [ITHREAD]
>
> And my Xorg.0.log is attached.
>
> When I try running glxgears, I get the following output:
>
>   Warning, RS690 detected, 3D support is incomplete.
>   Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
>
> I am also attaching my glxinfo -v output as well.
>
> I've prodded the BSD radeon kernel driver a lot. and it probably lags
> behind the linux kernel module somewhat. If the problems I am
> experiencing are related to the features not being available in the
> kmod, perhaps you could point me at the linux driver code that I could
> look at to get an idea of what needs implementing on FreeBSD.
>
> Your above message (about playing torcs) leads me to believe that I
> should be able to get GL apps running here (if I have everything else
> working alright). I have found that if I run the glxgears_fbconfig demo,
> it actually runs but it displays a solid black window. The software does
> seem to be running and taking stats, but there's no visual output. The
> framerate on this runs about 2500 fps.
>
> I did install the latest mesa, libdrm, drm, from fd.o git. I also had to
> install dri2proto.

Okay, I still get this bug, but I did learn that I *do* need to install
xorg-server from git (I've been using 1.4 from the release). I also had
to update a number of other packages along with it, such as the input
and xkb stuff.

Previously, I would get the above bugs no matter if DRI was enabled or
not (but the RS690 error message would only be shown for the DRI case).
Since installing xorg-server from git, I can now use OpenGL from non-DRI
startup (which renders in software), but now I still get the error
messages when I try running with DRI enabled.

-- 
Coleman Kane