[gentoo-user] Not getting video hardware acceleration
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 c000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at d010 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at d000 (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 d011 (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 :01:05.0: PCI INT A - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 18 [0.251204] radeon :01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 [0.253225] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS880 0x1002:0x9712). [0.253339] [drm] register mmio base: 0xD010 [0.253376] [drm] register mmio size: 65536 [0.253512] ATOM BIOS: Acer_JE40HM42DN [0.253584] radeon :01:05.0: VRAM: 256M 0xC000 - 0xCFFF (256M used) [0.253632] radeon :01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0xA000 - 0xBFFF [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 :01:05.0: disabling GPU acceleration [ 60.897418] radeon :01:05.0: 88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary [ 60.897456] radeon :01:05.0: 88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary Any ideas what's going wrong, and especially how to fix it? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Not getting video hardware acceleration
On Monday 31 January 2011 19:28:27 Walter Dnes wrote: 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 c000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at d010 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Memory at d000 (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 d011 (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 :01:05.0: PCI INT A - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 18 [0.251204] radeon :01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 [0.253225] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS880 0x1002:0x9712). [0.253339] [drm] register mmio base: 0xD010 [0.253376] [drm] register mmio size: 65536 [0.253512] ATOM BIOS: Acer_JE40HM42DN [0.253584] radeon :01:05.0: VRAM: 256M 0xC000 - 0xCFFF (256M used) [0.253632] radeon :01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0xA000 - 0xBFFF [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 :01:05.0: disabling GPU acceleration [ 60.897418] radeon :01:05.0: 88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary [ 60.897456] radeon :01:05.0: 88013ea6bc00 unpin not necessary Any ideas what's going wrong, and especially how to fix it? Have you followed the instructions on this page re: radeon-ucode and the kernel configuration http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml If so, what does ls -la /lib/firmware/radeon/ show? Is R600_rlc.bin showing up in there? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Not getting video hardware acceleration
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 07:49:13PM +, Mick wrote Have you followed the instructions on this page re: radeon-ucode and the kernel configuration http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml If so, what does ls -la /lib/firmware/radeon/ show? Is R600_rlc.bin showing up in there? Thanks, that was it. I didn't realize that Radeon drivers involved loading firmware blobs. I thought that was for proprietary drivers like nvidia or fglrx. Anyhow, it works now and keeps up with live high-def TV playback from my HDHomerun tuner box. I have one or two more items to deal with before the laptop is 100% functional under linux, but that'll be another thread. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
