ATI Radeon 4870 discontinues support / [Solved]

[notzippy]

Hi

According to the last update "ATI Radeom HD 2XXX/3XXX/4XXX propriety drivers will no longer be available, and we should switch to the open source version. ", I am disappointed by the opensource driver as there is no 3d support or webgl native support. So I am looking to upgrade my video card - any suggestions on what to upgrade to ? Looking for dual monitor support, with hardware 3d, webgl support, and obviously a driver that is supported by linux..

BTW I found this http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... ducts.aspx according to that it appears that there is support for ACCC for version 12.6

any suggestions would be appreciated
thanks
Nz

[Fitzcarraldo]

Who told you there is no 3D support in the Open Source driver? Last time I used it, 3D support worked fine.

[notzippy]

I followed the instructions on removing the proprietary drivers
install xf86-video-ati
remove ati-drivers
remove file /etc/gpu-detector.conf
reboot

But looking at /etc/X11/xorg.conf it appears that file still references the old drivers

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-CRT1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-CRT2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "1280 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"

#BusID "PCI:01:00"
#Option "RenderAccel" "on"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
#Option "BusType" "PCI"
#Option "ColorTiling" "on"
#Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
# UseEvents is causing segmentation faults with
# NVIDIA 6xxx, 7xxx and >=275.xx.xx drivers
#Option "UseEvents" "True"
Identifier "SabayonVga0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "LogoPath" "/usr/share/backgrounds/sabayonlinux-nvidia.png"
EndSection

How can I fix this or reset these settings ?

thanks
Nz

[Fitzcarraldo]

Follow the instructions in Getting rid of Catalyst.

[notzippy]

Followed those instructions and things appear to be a way better display wise (moving windows no longer jerking across screen), but opengl still seems to be disabled ie none of the GL Screen savers are working.
Any other ideas on things I could check for ?
glxinfo
name of display: :0
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 150 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 12

thanks
Nz

[notzippy]

Errors cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
[ 28.007] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 28.037] (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 28.108] (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 28.250] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed (libdri too old)
[ 28.604] (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed
[ 28.776] (EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols.


I also tried to eselect opengl set xorg-x11 , which locked up x11 on startup. (Rebooted into recovery mount -o remount,rw / and eselect opengl ati allowed me to start X again

[Fitzcarraldo]

If eselect opengl set ati allowed you to start X Windows again then you are still using the Closed Source FGLRX (AMD Catalyst) driver. Make sure you have uninstalled ati-drivers and ati-userspace, delete (or move) the xorg.conf file (see The X Server Configuration HOWTO - 3. Configuring Xorg), enter the command eselect opengl set xorg-x11, use the eselect mesa commands to set all the OpenGL drivers to classic, then reboot.

See also the thread X-Server fails to start after latest updates (16/07/2012) (http://lists.sabayon.org/pipermail/deve ... /date.html).

[notzippy]

Removing ati-userspace removed the option from eselect opengl list. But after a reboot I still did not get any further - as soon as the login screen attempted to appear the the system froze. (I could still move the mouse but it was a jerky motion on the screen) Only keyboard commands I could get to work was REISUB. I finally was able to start X again by installing the ATI drivers in recovery mode. Anything else I could check for ?

Some mesa commands did not have a classic version

# eselect mesa list
64bit i915 (Intel 915, 945)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium
64bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x)
[1] classic *
64bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
[1] gallium *
64bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
[1] gallium *
64bit sw (Software renderer)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium
32bit i915 (Intel 915, 945)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium
32bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x)
[1] classic *
32bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium
32bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium
32bit sw (Software renderer)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium

Nz

[notzippy]

Third times the charm
After creating the following file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf containing:
options radeon modeset=1

It worked !
Really appreciate all your help !

Nz