FYI only, the firmware-linux package actually brings in microcode which runs on the GPU chip itself; the AtomBIOS ROM is stored in a ROM on the card and runs on the CPU.
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From: brampton@gmail.com [mailto:brampton@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Brampton
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:56 AM
To: Matthias Hopf; radeonhd@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [radeonhd] 0x9505:0x174B:0x2542: Sapphire HD 3850 Pro 256MB GDDR3 Dual DVI TVO PCI-E Graphics Card
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Matthias Hopf
On Apr 05, 10 23:37:39 +0100, Andrew Brampton wrote:
(II) RADEONHD(0): [DRI] installation complete (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. (II) RADEONHD(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEONHD(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x2b7ff000 at 0x7f961fdaf000 (II) RADEONHD(0): [drm] Closed DRM master. (WW) RADEONHD(0): RHDCSInit: CS for R600 requires DRI. (WW) RADEONHD(0): Failed to initalize EXA; disabling acceleration.
I assume your kernel is too old.
Matthias
Thanks Matthias, I didn't realise those lines of the error message were important. A quick search has shown me that I just needed to "apt-get install firmware-linux" which seems to bring in the Atom Bios rom, and now everything works fine. thanks Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org