On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 02:33:38PM +0000, luxInteg wrote: > Greetings, > > I have never used ati/radeon graphic cards on amd64 until now. I have used > nvidia gpu's with the opensource nouveau driver. My baptism with > ati/radeon/amd64 is proving a little difficult hence thie email soliciting > help. > > The setup I current have has these:- > -motherboard msi-760gsm-e51 with integrated radeon gpu > -cpu: amd64 3cores > -RAM 8 Gbytes. >
Google seems to be particularly obtuse when I search for that mobo. Do you know which radeon chipset it contains ? Perhaps the following might be of help - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon and (maybe) http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/radeon > I have 2 Xwindow setups on the same machine > a) an aging one with xorg-7.5 used previously to run nouveau -call this > XORG1 > b) a new virgin setup with xorg-7.6 -call this XORG2 > > XORG1: Running startx; the machine gives a very faint greenish screen > with /etc/X11/xorg.conf is edited for radeon.ati card ( i.e. busID, card > identitier as "radeon" etc) > But if /etc/X11/xorg.conf is deleted running startx gives a brigt screen > limited to 1024x768 resolution. ( I have tested a range of mionitors and it > gives the same resolution every time ( the included-below Xorg.o.log > shows all but 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480 are disabled irrespective of the > monitor attached. > For 7.5, it's possible that this 'card' is not supported by your radeon driver. Alternatively, something is preventing it running at the resolution you desire. I presume your monitor(s) can cope with the resolution greater than 1024x768 that you apparently want to use ? > XORG2: Running 'cd ~ && Xorg -configure' for XORG2 fails. with a tiny entry > in /var/log/Xorg..0.log If a test file xorg.confTEST file is created > running #X -retro -config ~/xorg.confTEST' yields a grey screen with a > series of vertical lines. Although I have an .xinitrc file with a line to > terminate X with ctrl_alt_backaspace, this is ignored. I have to reset the > machine. Similarly, your 7.6 driver might be too old (I don't know, because I can't identify this hardware). I think your best way forward is to try the current ati driver on the 7.6 system, i.e. xf86-video-ati-6.14.3. You might have to update some protos etc along the way. Only update libdrm if the driver demands it. Similarly, your version of xorg-server (1.9.3) is probably good enough. > If I run startx with the file as /etc/X11/xorg.conf nothing happens. > There are two errors in > the log file Xorg.0.log below:- > > [ 497.136] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or > directory) > [ 497.573] (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled > The first of those sounds a bit like a kernel problem (acpi is *often* a problem), but its only a warning. The second is definitely not desirable, but still only a warning. First, work on getting the card working, then come back to Mesa - it sounds as if your version of Mesa definitely doesn't support this version of the radeon. If you have doubts about versions, I happened to post the versions in my current build on blfs-dev the other day (initially with MesaLib-7.10.3, later with 7.11.2 which is very different) - use 7.10 if you can, it's a lot easier in terms of dependencies. > > [ 497.013] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=5-310nbf7 ro root=305 What an odd name! vmlinuz-v.w.x is more traditional. Such an odd name makes me wonder if you are doing anything else odd (as in "running a vm"). but I'm sure you would have mentioned if you were. Oh, and running a current kernel is always a good idea, particularly if you are using kms (and, with a radeon, that is almost certainly the right thing to do). Sorry I can't be more specific. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
