Thinkpad, ATI, hell
I made the mistake of buying one of the `linux-ready' Lenovo Thinkpad T60's a while ago, or rather made the mistake of buying one with an ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 graphics controller and ever since I've been in ATI hell. The radeon driver crashes the X server at startup: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c6a4e] 1: [0xb7f23400] 2: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x296) [0x80744c6] 3: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7cad450] 4: /usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x201) [0x8073a31] so I rely on ATI's proprietary drivers as packaged for Debian. I have installed fglrx-driver, fglrx-glx, and fglrx-kernel-src, all at version 8-6-2 from testing. The kernel version is 2.6.25-2-486 from the Debian package. But 3D acceleration stubbornly refuses to work: (EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection. (II) fglrx(0): XMM failed to initialize! (II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering disabled (WW) fglrx(0): *** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization disabled!* (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available* (WW) fglrx(0): *** (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc000 FBMappedSize: 0x1000 (==) fglrx(0): Write-combining range (0xd000,0x1000) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1408,8191) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1408,1050) (front colorbuffer - assumption) (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1408 x 7141 (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled (II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION (II) Loading extension ATITVOUT (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled (WW) fglrx(0): Textured Video not supported without DRI enabled. (II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines Setting up tile and stipple cache: 32 128x128 slots 32 256x256 slots 16 512x512 slots (II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled which means also that there is no xv: % xvinfo % X-Video Extension version 2.2 % screen #0 % no adaptors present glxinfo reports: OpenGL vendor string: Brian Paul OpenGL renderer string: Mesa X11 OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.0.4 so somehow the mesa libraries are, I suppose, being loaded to do software rather than hardware accelaration. I can't figure out why, though. The fglrx kernel module is loaded: % lsmod | grep fglrx % fglrx1674348 0 % agpgart31152 2 fglrx,intel_agp I've tried "UseInternalAGPGART" set to "yes" and to "no". I'm at my wits' end. Is there someone here who might have some advice or pointers? Thanks very much in advance, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad, ATI, hell
Hello, I know nothing about the ATI, since I'm a happy owner of a T60/Intel ;) On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 01:41 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I made the mistake of buying one of the `linux-ready' Lenovo Thinkpad > T60's a while ago, or rather made the mistake of buying one with an > ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 graphics controller and ever since I've > been in ATI hell. However, It would be great to open a bug, since there seems to be none : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=xserver-xorg-video-ati neither on Xorg's bugzilla : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=firegl&product=xorg&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Importance&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi list i have a problem
i have a intel celeron, dual core, when i see the file /proc/cpuinfo he show me that my processor is a INTEL CELERON CPU E1200 1.6 GHZ. i installed the debian i386 but my quenstion is, can i install the amd64debian in my machine? "for usefull the power of the 2 processor". thanks _ Do more with your photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_photos_022008 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hi list i have a problem
javier melendez wrote: > i have a intel celeron, dual core, when i see the file /proc/cpuinfo > he show me that my processor is a INTEL CELERON CPU E1200 1.6 GHZ. i > installed the debian i386 but my quenstion is, can i install the > amd64debian in my machine? "for usefull the power of the 2 > processor". Probably. You can tell by looking at the cpu flags. If the 'lm' flag (longmode) is available then it is 64-bit capable. If not then it is not. Here is a simple one-liner that you can cut and paste. grep -q '^flags.* lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo yes || echo no Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: hi list i have a problem
Hello, You don't need to use debian-amd64 in order to enable the two cores. Using 64bits brings a marginal performance improvements (a few percentages. Humans can't really make the difference). 64bits is mostly useful when you need more RAM. Switching to 64bits could raise some small issues, which probably doesn't worth the few extra percent of performance. On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:47 +, javier melendez wrote: > i have a intel celeron, dual core, when i see the file /proc/cpuinfo > he show me that my processor is a INTEL CELERON CPU E1200 1.6 GHZ. i > installed the debian i386 but my quenstion is, can i install the > amd64debian in my machine? "for usefull the power of the 2 > processor". Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
