[arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

[Tavian Barnes]

On 27 February 2010 21:57, Ignacio Galmarino <igalmarino at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/27/2010 03:43 PM, Ignacio Galmarino wrote:
>> On 02/27/2010 03:34 PM, Gary Wright wrote:
>>> On 02/27/2010 02:31 PM, Ignacio Galmarino wrote:
>>>> On 02/27/2010 03:09 PM, Andreas Radke wrote:
>>>>> Am Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:21:57 +0100
>>>>> schrieb Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 27.02.2010 17:10, schrieb Mauro Santos:
>>>>>>>> Arch Linux changes:
>>>>>>>> - changed radeon kms enabled by default
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyone taking care of the libdrm, mesa, libgl, ati-dri and
>>>>>>> xf86-video-ati rebuild so all the benefits of kms can be fully
>>>>>>> used? As far as I know it is needed to make this work as well as
>>>>>>> possible with ATI cards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The KMS problem was expected and Andy will probably take care of it
>>>>>> very soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The mirrors should get the rebuilt/updated packages soon. Please report
>>>>> if KMS is working for you. KMS is very soon freezing my desktop without
>>>>> entries in Xorg or everything log file :(
>>>>>
>>>>> -Andy
>>>>
>>>> I think some files a missing
>>>>
>>>> dmesg | grep -i radeon
>>>>
>>>> [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
>>>> [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
>>>> radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A ->  GSI 16 (level, low) ->  IRQ 16
>>>> radeon 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>>>> [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
>>>> [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready
>>>> [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
>>>> radeon 0000:01:00.0: irq 29 for MSI/MSI-X
>>>> [drm] radeon: using MSI.
>>>> [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
>>>> platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV635_pfp.bin
>>>> platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV635_me.bin
>>>> platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R600_rlc.bin
>>>> r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R600_rlc.bin"
>>>> radeon 0000:01:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration
>>>> radeon 0000:01:00.0: ffff88013aa61400 unpin not necessary
>>>> radeon 0000:01:00.0: ffff88013aa61400 unpin not necessary
>>>> [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
>>>> fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
>>>> [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
>>>>
>>>> Ignacio
>>>>
>>> The missing firmware can be found in this AUR pkg:
>>>
>>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33016
>>>
>>> Gary
>>
>> mmm.. i installed this package but get exactly the same error
>>
>> I can see the file in /lib/firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin but it cant be
>> loaded ... i dont know why ...
>>
>> Ignacio
>>
>
> Ok i do more research and 3d working now. This is what i find:
>
> 1) file /lib/firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin is missing from kernel26-firmware.
>
> 2) This file can only be loaded if you use kms late start
> (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Late_start).
>
> 3) To use early start
> (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Early_start) the file should be
> included in initramfs ... but i really dont know how ...

Add it to FILES in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.

-- 
Tavian Barnes