Legacy ATI fglrx Drivers on Fedora Core 6 Zod (DISCUSSION)

[Michael]

This is a discussion thread for the Legacy ATI fglrx Drivers on Fedora Core 6 -- See: http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=342

[holck]

Thank you very much for this helpful script. I finally managed to run it, after I found out I needed to do

cd /usr/lib/qt-3.3/
ln -s libqt-mt.so libqt.so

in order to make it work. So I got and installed

ATI-fglrx-8.28.8-1.fc6.i386.rpm
ATI-fglrx-control-panel-8.28.8-1.fc6.i386.rpm
ATI-fglrx-devel-8.28.8-1.fc6.i386.rpm
kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-8.28.8-1.fc6.i386.rpm

and things seem to work, mostly. But if I run

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose fglrxinfo

I get

libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 8.28.8 atiogl_a (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
fglrx: libGL version does not match - OpenGL module is using glapi fallback
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 8.28.8 atiogl_a (screen 0)
drmOpenByBusid: busid is PCI:1:0:0
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9200 Series DDR Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.1091 (X4.3.0-8.28.8)

Is this a problem? Also, if I run fgl_glxgears I don't get any gears but a spinning cube and

Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
1451 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.200 FPS
1468 frames in 5.0 seconds = 293.600 FPS
1410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 282.000 FPS
X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  14 (X_GetGeometry)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  55
  Current serial number in output stream:  55

I guess this is not good?

I am using a Radeon 9250 running Fedora 6 and xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.fc6.

Thank you for a valuable forum, even though I kind of regret my buying this card - it has caused me a lot of work...

[Michael]

Is Enemy Territory or any OpenGL programs working?

[holck]

Is Enemy Territory or any OpenGL programs working?

Thanks for a fast reply
I can run torcs, seem to work fine. I don't have Enemy Territory installed - should I?

[Michael]

If torcs runs fine you should be set. Enemy Territory is simply a free, easy, and reliable Linux-native game and works well for benchmarking.

[holck]

If torcs runs fine you should be set. Enemy Territory is simply a free, easy, and reliable Linux-native game and works well for benchmarking.

Tried that - and Enemy Territory works very nicely, quite impressive!
Should I run your script once more in order to get the driver to work with the new kernel version (2.6.18-1.2849)?

[Michael]

Yes, to generate the new kernel module for the kernel.

[bill_mcgonigle]

getting X to start with legacy drivers

First, thanks to Michael for his hard work on helping folks with "older" hardware (my machine was brand new 1.5 years ago...) stay current with software and his support of the community.

Using Michael's script I've been able to, after some exasperation, get the fglrx drivers compiled and installed. I needed to do the config.h hack, symlink libqt-mt to libqt and libGL.so.1 to libGL, and then finally the control panel would compile and I got Zod packages.

For starters I can run X just fine with the open source drivers but I need TV-out and my chip isn't supported by the Gatos code. So, here I am.

I've tried aticonfig --initial and it makes a config file (without modes, incidentally), but it fails with 'no screens'. If I put in an "800x600" mode it still fails with 'no screens'.

Interestingly, if I turn off the monitor X will get further, but it doesn't initialize the display, just black. I've tried this with DPMS on and off.

I think I have a handle on what's going on but don't know how to proceed. If I start Xorg -configure, I get a crash in fglrx at R200Probe:

Backtrace:
0: Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80e53b1]
1: [0x9f8420]
2: /lib/libc.so.6(memcpy+0x1c) [0x7e49ec]
3: Xorg(xf86memcpy+0x2b) [0x80b4efb]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so(R200Probe+0x121) [0xd8dfd1]
5: Xorg(DoConfigure+0x228) [0x80d22c8]
6: Xorg(InitOutput+0x645) [0x80a1935]
7: Xorg(main+0x276) [0x806f856]
8: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x78cf2c]
9: Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x806eda1]

There are a few other clueless users out there that Google knows about with similar crashes, but no posted solutions. I figured someone here is likely to know what might be going on. Any ideas appreciated.

[Michael]

You're very welcome.

So you have the drivers built and installed but they aren't working now? What is the specific graphics card that you are using? Had you tried any AGP options or other non-(aticonfig --initial) options in your config file (what does your xorg.conf look like right now)? If you can post some more detailed information I can try to possibly reproduce the problem and hopefully figure out a fix.

[bill_mcgonigle]

So you have the drivers built and installed but they aren't working now?

Correct.

What is the specific graphics card that you are using?

This is an integrated Radeon 9100 IGP which from what I can gather uses an RS300 chipset with (maybe?) an R200 (mumble)theater chip for TV-Out.

Had you tried any AGP options or other non-(aticonfig --initial) options in your config file

No, perhaps I should. I looked through the aticonfig help file and it doesn't appear to offer much in the way of AGP options.

(what does your xorg.conf look like right now)?

To make this I ran system-config-display, set my resolution, then ran aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf and manually removed the Radeon driver's Device and the non-ATI Screen section

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

If you can post some more detailed information I can try to possibly reproduce the problem and hopefully figure out a fix.

Please let me know what would be most helpful. Some bits that might help:

lspci -v -v -v

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8107
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 255 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at fdb00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
                Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=7 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit+ FW+ AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8
                Command: RQ=32 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=x4
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

dmesg:

agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:05.0 into 4x mode
[drm] Setting GART location based on old memory map
[drm] Loading R200 Microcode
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
[drm] Module unloaded
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 865 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.28.8 [Aug 17 2006] on minor 0

uname -a : Linux malp.bfc 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Other curious bits:

I seem to have to do a depmod -a before I can modprobe fglrx on each reboot.

Errors the driver outputs:

(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitDAL failed
(EE) fglrx(0): R200PreInit failed
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Thanks for looking at this.