[ltp] FireGL T2 3d under SuSE 9.0

[Niel Lambrechts]

Hi,

I'm trying (for much too long now) to get the ATI fglrx driver going
under X with 3d acceleration.

Cfg: SuSE 9.0, kernel 2.6.7-rc3-mm1, Thinkpad R50P.

Here is what I have done using fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0:

fglrx module
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1. Applied the latest regparm patch for 3.9.0 driver
2. Fixed the "structure has no member named count" error which shows up
under this kernel.
3. At this point, fglrx module compiles ok and can be loaded. 

Setup
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4. modprobe intel_agp
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855PM Chipset.
5. modprobe fglrx - no problem
6. Fix /proc/mtrr:
> cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log|grep ATI|grep PCI
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x4e54) rev 128,
Mem @ 0xe0000000/27, 0xc0100000/16, I/O @ 0x3000/8
> echo "disable=2" >| /proc/mtrr
> echo "base=0xe0000000 size=0x8000000 type=write-combining" >|
/proc/mtrr

So now /proc/mtrr shows:
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x1ff80000 ( 511MB), size= 512KB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=5
reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: write-combining, count=1

* If my info is correct, reg02 is now correctly showing 128MB videomem.
7. startx
After X is up, I see fglrx is indeed used:
lsmod|grep fglrx
fglrx                 210884  249

but
PROBLEMS
--------
> glxinfo|grep -i direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
* No DRI???

> fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

* This is obviously WRONG, it should show ATI.

>fgl_glxgears
Error: couldn't get fbconfig
 
> dmesg|grep -i mtrr 
mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,400000 found
mtrr: no MTRR for e0400000,200000 found
mtrr: no MTRR for e0600000,100000 found
* still pops up even though my mtrr has been fixed up?

Any help would be appreciated!!!

Niel


PS: Some things from my XFree-log:
> cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log|grep WW
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is
supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA.  Will restore with
default
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)

Not sure if this is a problem, I use ACPI and not APM.