Comments on: Radeon R600/R700 with KMS+3D on Karmic 9.10 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10 "Think free speech, not free beer" Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:41:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sque http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-53 sque Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:41:42 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-53 <code>echo “options radeon dynpm=1″ > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf</code> must be run in terminal and it overwrites/creates /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf file with data “options radeon dynpm=1″ (without the quotes). In other words opening file with a text editor you must see: <code>options radeon dynpm=1</code> Something else that it might need to do is removing completely fglrx installation, this can be done with the following command <code>sudo apt-get purge xorg-driver-fglrx</code> Please try this too, and reboot system. Resources to look at ------------------------------------------------------ I don't have any "trusted sources" :P I usually look arround the drm-next log http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=drm-next Airled blog: http://airlied.livejournal.com/ Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com And a LOT of google. This guide I made was not a single page copy paste, was the result of my experience trying to make KMS work on my system. So there is no one big resource to point. echo “options radeon dynpm=1″ > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf
must be run in terminal and it overwrites/creates /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf file with data “options radeon dynpm=1″ (without the quotes).

In other words opening file with a text editor you must see:
options radeon dynpm=1

Something else that it might need to do is removing completely fglrx installation, this can be done with the following command
sudo apt-get purge xorg-driver-fglrx
Please try this too, and reboot system.

Resources to look at
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I don’t have any “trusted sources” :P
I usually look arround the drm-next log http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=drm-next
Airled blog: http://airlied.livejournal.com/
Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com
And a LOT of google.

This guide I made was not a single page copy paste, was the result of my experience trying to make KMS work on my system. So there is no one big resource to point.

]]> By: Patrick Lindsey http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Patrick Lindsey Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:35:01 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-52 silly question on echo "options radeon dynpm=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf directions. I am simply adding: echo "options radeon dynpm=1" to the radeon.conf file, quotes and all? silly question on echo “options radeon dynpm=1″ > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf directions. I am simply adding:
echo “options radeon dynpm=1″ to the radeon.conf file, quotes and all?

]]> By: Patrick Lindsey http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Patrick Lindsey Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:31:08 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-51 Thanks again. I am going to roll back to my previous setup, but I look very forward to what you find about my card. Where are places I can look for this information myself? I am simply curious. Thanks again. I am going to roll back to my previous setup, but I look very forward to what you find about my card. Where are places I can look for this information myself? I am simply curious.

]]> By: sque http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-50 sque Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:30:02 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-50 If there is no drm output on dmesg, the kernel module "radeon" did not recognize your card, so you don't have KMS at all and 3D comes from the old stack. I will try to find more info about driver support on your specific chipset, and update comments/page for your info. I know that some of them are currently not supported, but don't have the list available. I am glad you enjoyed it, and wish you better luck next time :=D If there is no drm output on dmesg, the kernel module “radeon” did not recognize your card, so you don’t have KMS at all and 3D comes from the old stack.

I will try to find more info about driver support on your specific chipset, and update comments/page for your info. I know that some of them are currently not supported, but don’t have the list available.

I am glad you enjoyed it, and wish you better luck next time :=D

]]> By: Patrick Lindsey http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Patrick Lindsey Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:25:11 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-49 P.S. I forgot to say Thank You! This has been an adventure in command line Linux =) P.S. I forgot to say Thank You! This has been an adventure in command line Linux =)

]]> By: Patrick Lindsey http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Patrick Lindsey Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:23:38 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-48 OK. I went through the steps again. This time ./compiz-check says everything checks out OK, but my 3D runs REALLY slow. I am basing this upon using AWN. The menus are not running smoothly at all. When I use the ATI proprietary driver they did. Anyway, I tried running # dmesg | grep drm, and nothing came back at all. The command just went right back to the command prompt. According to ./compiz-check here is my card type: Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] If there is something else I can do let me know. Maybe my setup is not powerful enough to run these drivers on this kernel smoothly. If thats the case I just go back to the proprietary flgrx drivers. Let me know =) OK. I went through the steps again. This time ./compiz-check says everything checks out OK, but my 3D runs REALLY slow. I am basing this upon using AWN. The menus are not running smoothly at all. When I use the ATI proprietary driver they did. Anyway, I tried running # dmesg | grep drm, and nothing came back at all. The command just went right back to the command prompt. According to ./compiz-check here is my card type: Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] If there is something else I can do let me know. Maybe my setup is not powerful enough to run these drivers on this kernel smoothly. If thats the case I just go back to the proprietary flgrx drivers. Let me know =)

]]> By: sque http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-47 sque Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:18:35 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-47 Welcome aboard Patric, The problem that you are describing means that the DRM or DRI driver did not work, either because it cannot work with your card, or it couldn't find the firmware. You can check if the DRM driver was loaded by running <code>dmesg | grep drm</code> If you see no output it means that it cannot detect your card, in that case tell us what card are you using. If you see output then check if there is a line with an error or waring like "Unable to load firmware" or something similar. If this output is ok then you probably have problem in the xorg DRI driver, recheck that you have added xorg-edgers ppa and the latest version of radeon is installed by running: <code>apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-radeon</code> It must be saying tha you have installed 1:6.12.191+git2010xxxx and NOT 1:6:12:99+git2009xxxx Hope it helped. In any case come back and tell us if you need more help. :D Welcome aboard Patric,
The problem that you are describing means that the DRM or DRI driver did not work, either because it cannot work with your card, or it couldn’t find the firmware.
You can check if the DRM driver was loaded by running
dmesg | grep drm
If you see no output it means that it cannot detect your card, in that case tell us what card are you using.
If you see output then check if there is a line with an error or waring like “Unable to load firmware” or something similar.

If this output is ok then you probably have problem in the xorg DRI driver, recheck that you have added xorg-edgers ppa and the latest version of radeon is installed by running:
apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-radeon
It must be saying tha you have installed 1:6.12.191+git2010xxxx and NOT 1:6:12:99+git2009xxxx

Hope it helped. In any case come back and tell us if you need more help. :D

]]> By: Patrick http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Patrick Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:05:56 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-46 I ran compiz-check on my system after re-booting and got the following error "Error: Software Rasterizer in use". Everything else checked out. I can not enable visual effects. Can you help me out? Regards, Patrick I ran compiz-check on my system after re-booting and got the following error
“Error: Software Rasterizer in use”. Everything else checked out. I can not enable visual effects. Can you help me out?

Regards,
Patrick

]]> By: sque http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-37 sque Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:06:01 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-37 Congratz DragonionS! Happy free software browsing :D Congratz DragonionS! Happy free software browsing :D

]]> By: DragonionS http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/2010/03/radeon-r600r700-with-kms3d-on-karmic-9-10/comment-page-1/#comment-36 DragonionS Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:04:46 +0000 http://blogs.kmfa.net/sque/?p=167#comment-36 Thanks for this tutorial. I've tried it on Ubuntu Karmic with my 2nd notebook with RadeonHD 2400. It works! P.S. The 1st notebook is under Gentoo :D Thanks for this tutorial. I’ve tried it on Ubuntu Karmic with my 2nd notebook with RadeonHD 2400. It works!

P.S. The 1st notebook is under Gentoo :D

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