Wondering if there are any ideas on how to approach the mystery of the R300_cp.bin firmware that will not load:
[ 2.627772] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2) [ 2.627802] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2 [ 2.627810] [drm:.r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! [ 2.628128] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: failed initializing CP (-2). I recently set up this DualG5 with Debian 11 Sid. /$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : PPC970FX, altivec supported clock : 2000.000000MHz revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300) processor : 1 cpu : PPC970FX, altivec supported clock : 2000.000000MHz revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300) timebase : 33333333 platform : PowerMac model : PowerMac7,3 machine : PowerMac7,3 motherboard : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld --- /$ lspci 0000:f0:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Inc. U3H AGP Bridge 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] 0001:00:00.0 Host bridge: Apple Inc. U3 HT Bridge 0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 0001:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 0001:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Apple Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:04.0 PCI bridge: Apple Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:05.0 PCI bridge: Apple Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Apple Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Apple Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:01:07.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Apple Inc. K2 KeyLargo Mac/IO (rev 60) 0001:01:08.0 USB controller: Apple Inc. K2 KeyLargo USB 0001:01:09.0 USB controller: Apple Inc. K2 KeyLargo USB 0001:02:0b.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller (rev 04) 0001:03:0d.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Apple Inc. K2 ATA/100 0001:03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Inc. K2 FireWire 0001:04:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Inc. K2 GMAC (Sun GEM) 0001:05:0c.0 IDE interface: Broadcom K2 SATA --- I have installed the correct firmware packages I believe: $ apt list | grep installed | grep firmware WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. firmware-amd-graphics/unstable,now 20210818-1 all [installed] firmware-linux-free/unstable,now 20200122-1 all [installed,automatic] firmware-linux-nonfree/unstable,now 20210818-1 all [installed] firmware-misc-nonfree/unstable,now 20210818-1 all [installed,automatic] --- and the firmware seems to be there: $ ls -la /lib/firmware/radeon/R3* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Aug 24 08:46 /lib/firmware/radeon/R300_cp.bin --------------- and yet I see this: $ sudo dmesg | grep radeon [ 2.532448] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 2.532582] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from OFfb ATY,Whelk_ [ 2.533770] fb1: switching to radeondrmfb from OFfb ATY,Whelk_ [ 2.534038] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console [ 2.534814] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) [ 2.536513] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0000 [ 2.624118] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: VRAM: 256M 0x00000000A0000000 - 0x00000000AFFFFFFF (128M used) [ 2.624128] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000080000000 - 0x000000009FFFFFFF [ 2.624213] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: dma_iommu_get_required_mask: returning bypass mask 0x1ffffffff [ 2.624413] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready [ 2.624419] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [ 2.627065] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes initialized [ 2.627199] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: WB enabled [ 2.627210] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000000 [ 2.627644] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. [ 2.627772] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2) [ 2.627802] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2 [ 2.627810] [drm:.r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! [ 2.628128] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: failed initializing CP (-2). [ 2.628145] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: Disabling GPU acceleration [ 2.628158] [drm] radeon: cp finalized [ 2.794433] radeon 0000:f0:10.0: [drm] fb0: radeon frame buffer device [ 2.810380] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.50.0 20080528 for 0000:f0:10.0 on minor 0 I tried forcing a reinstall of: firmware-amd-graphics but that seems to have made no difference. thanks to all! Ken
