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 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?
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
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