Bugzilla – Bug 758202
radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R300_cp.bin"
Last modified: 2012-04-20 10:08:20 UTC
When I install the M3, found the gnome-shell can't start cause the "No 3D hardware support". After compare with 12.1(12.1 works fine), I found the the firmware not loaded. Below is part of dmesg. Hope it'll be helpful. [ 7.950968] [drm] radeon: 64M of VRAM memory ready [ 7.950971] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [ 7.950988] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 [ 7.951732] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready. [ 7.951807] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes initialized. [ 7.953286] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000000C0040000). [ 7.953312] radeon 0000:01:00.0: WB enabled [ 7.953316] [drm] fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0xa0000000 and cpu addr 0xff88b000 [ 7.953381] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode [ 7.960830] rtc_cmos 00:06: RTC can wake from S4 [ 7.960991] rtc_cmos 00:06: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 [ 7.961028] rtc0: alarms up to one month, y3k, 114 bytes nvram, hpet irqs [ 8.024211] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R300_cp.bin" [ 8.024222] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! [ 8.024228] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). [ 8.024233] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration [ 8.024240] [drm] radeon: cp finalized [ 8.024267] radeon 0000:01:00.0: f7227000 unpin not necessary [ 8.024673] radeon 0000:01:00.0: f7227200 unpin not necessary [ 8.024907] [drm] Panel ID String: 1024x768 [ 8.024909] [drm] Panel Size 1024x768 [ 8.035882] [drm] radeon legacy LVDS backlight initialized [ 8.035924] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
After try the patch in bnc#757655, it works fine now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 757655 ***