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| Summary: | radeon [HD 4200] GPU acceleration disabled with KMS | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 | Reporter: | Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400> |
| Component: | Kernel | Assignee: | Egbert Eich <eich> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | alex239, coolo, lee_matheson, sndirsch |
| Version: | Final | Flags: | coolo:
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| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | SUSE Other | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Xorg.0.log file
Output of lspci |
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Created attachment 416312 [details]
Output of lspci
Please note that this is a severe regression from 11.4 RC 1. > (II) RADEON(1): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS
Sounds like a kernel regression to me.
I tried it on another ATI based chipset, and the same problem was seen. So... I would release an online update for that. This has big implications for all users with ATI chipsets (now in a majority of high end laptops), and I would still strongly hope it gets fixed before GM. It looks bad, in my opinion, to release a distribution with a number of crashing applications and no 3-D acceleration on a whole set of displays. You would think people who try it would be happy to just have an online update to fix this major problem, but how many really do their online updates anyway? Please, please consider fixing this before releasing 11.4. Thanks if they don't do their online updates, what right to complain do they really have? But you could start in trying the RC1 kernel to see if it's really the kernel. After that bisect to find the problematic patch Online update is not that good as an option, since my Dell Inspiron 1564 (Mobility Radeon 4300 series) DOES NOT BOOT AT ALL with default options from any RC2 live media: after "Loading Linux kernel" progress bar screen just goes black and disk activity stops. 'nomodeset' solves the isue and it boots with radeonhd driver, so no GPU accel anyway. Before I found this bug report I was going to file a SHOWSTOPPER bug, since RC1 worked just fine with KMS enabled. Does anybody here believe regular users will wait for online update for a release, who's LiveCD does not even boot? (In reply to comment #7) > But you could start in trying the RC1 kernel to see if it's really the kernel. Yes, that would be really useful and rather trivial to do. > After that bisect to find the problematic patch Definitely a non-trivial and rather time-consuming task! *** Bug 675430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** If https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675430 is indeed a duplicate then I think in my testing in 11.4 RC in bug 675430 that I showed the problem is either kernel or udev related. It is not the radeon driver. Note this worked fine in 11.4 RC1. Note in 11.4 RC2 I was able to get the radeon driver working by booting liveCD with nomodeset, init 3, edit 50-device.conf to uncomment radeon driver, and then init 5 and radeon driver worked. So for some reason, NOT using nomodeset causes a freeze on Radeon HD3450 hardware immediately after the line: 'creating device modes with udev' . If there is planned to be an approach to address this, it would be useful to know, as I attempt to provide support on openSUSE forums, and I will be able to do my best there to provide guidance. (In reply to comment #11) I confirm the above observation. Using "nomodeset", and then forcing the radeon driver with the above mentioned approach makes desktop effects and other dri based apps work flawlessly. Does this info help? Bug confirmed also in 11.4 GM and not only i686 but also in x86_64. Is this a LiveCD system? Then it would be a dup of bnc #675453, where we figured out that some radeon firmware files were missing in initrd and hence acceleration has been disabled. (In reply to comment #14) > Is this a LiveCD system? Then it would be a dup of bnc #675453, where we > figured out that some radeon firmware files were missing in initrd and hence > acceleration > has been disabled. That might just be it. I was puzzled as to how acceleration was working fine on my system after I upgraded to 11.4, but I just assumed it was because of some 11.3 artefact remaining back, this not being a clean installation but just an upgrade. So yes, everything works for me well now in a system installed from the DVD (I did not try an installation from the LiveCD though). Thanks! Ok. Closing as dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 675453 *** |
Created attachment 416311 [details] Xorg.0.log file User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20110203 Firefox/4.0b11 On the ati graphics using the xorg-x11-driver-video drivers, dri is not enabled as a result of which neither desktop effects nor any of the 3d based applications work at all. For example this is the output from glxgears:- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** *** WARNING: Direct Rendering is NOT enabled *** *** NOTE: Don't use glxgears as a benchmark. OpenGL implementations are not optimized for frame rates >> 60fps, thus these numbers are meaningless when compared between vendors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The system has a recent chipset (RS880) and both on openSUSE 11.3 and 11.4 RC1, everything worked beautifully. I have attached logs, but let me know what more might be required. The games lightsoff, swellfoop and other clutter based games in GNOME just crash. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.