The system is an AMD-based Acer Aspire One 14" laptop with 4-gigs of ram, running 64-bit mode. The video card, according to "lspci -v"...
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: radeon 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 970f Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at d0110000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel mplayer can only run "-vo x11", not "-vo xv" which I see on every other Gentoo machine I've had. Video playback suffers accordingly. Here's a snippet from dmesg bootup stuff that looks relavant, especially the last 6 lines... [ 0.250870] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 0.250972] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting. [ 0.251009] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 0.251160] radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 0.251204] radeon 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.253225] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS880 0x1002:0x9712). [ 0.253339] [drm] register mmio base: 0xD0100000 [ 0.253376] [drm] register mmio size: 65536 [ 0.253512] ATOM BIOS: Acer_JE40HM42DN [ 0.253584] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 256M 0xC0000000 - 0xCFFFFFFF (256M used) [ 0.253632] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0xA0000000 - 0xBFFFFFFF [ 0.253814] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M [ 0.253856] [drm] RAM width 32bits DDR [ 0.253972] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1899810 kiB. [ 0.254010] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator. [ 0.254061] [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready [ 0.254099] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [ 0.254174] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. [ 0.254212] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 [ 0.255276] [drm] Loading RS780 Microcode [ 60.896232] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R600_rlc.bin" [ 60.896274] [drm:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! [ 60.896313] radeon 0000:01:05.0: disabling GPU acceleration [ 60.897418] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary [ 60.897456] radeon 0000:01:05.0: ffff88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary Any ideas what's going wrong, and especially how to fix it? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>