HOWTO: enable 3d acceleration w/ Rage Mobility (mach64)

[psyke83]

Is this guide necessary any more? Those DRI snapshots have not been updated in over two years (and will probably never get updated again) - Ubuntu's driver versions should be more recent. If it's necessary to get more recent code, then you should be using GIT, not two-year-old snapshots.

[alex.bb]

Is this guide necessary any more? Those DRI snapshots have not been updated in over two years (and will probably never get updated again) - Ubuntu's driver versions should be more recent. If it's necessary to get more recent code, then you should be using GIT, not two-year-old snapshots.

With my method only the mach64 kernel-modules are created: Post 216
Is this GIT:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm

wrong ?

Could you show me a newer source for?

[NoOp]

Thanks! I finally managed to get DRI running on my old IBM Thinkpad A21M (8.04.1 - 2.6.24-19-generic - ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x). Any chance that you can provide a .deb for a -386 kernel? I normally boot into the -386 in order to use the built in Agere Systems WinModem.

[alex.bb]

Any chance that you can provide a .deb for a -386 kernel?

Yes. Are ready. For Hardy.

To install add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.bakarasse.de/linux/ubuntu/hardy /

and run

apt-get update
apt-get install linux-ati-mach64-drm-modules-386

[halitech]

trying the deb file now and hoping it works on my old compaq armada with the ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x

edit: well, the good news is that yes the driver worked for the video but the bad news is it knocked out my sound.

edit2: booted back into the 2.6.24-19-generic kernel and everything is working properly.

[Skimmer]

A hearty thanks to Arch2 in post#215!
I have a Compaq P3 600mhz with an 8mb ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) video card running Xubuntu-Hardy, and thanks to your guide I was able to get direct rendering going! Maybe because of the doubled memory (8mb instead of 4mb, Arch2) I am also able to use 24 bit depth as well (actually better!).

Some notes on glxgears performance:
Average of 293 fps over many counts for 16-bit depth
Average of 179 fps over many counts for 24-bit depth
I don't game much, but Neverball is working well with all lowest settings except shadows. I realize that my old setup can only do so much!!

Special Note:
Also had unrecoverable stops in X while at 16-bit depth using Firefox with enabled compositing. Seemed to happen while scrolling. Not sure where the fault is, but at 24-bit depth there have been no problems with any programs yet. Compositing is not on however, but I shall try it out.

Thanks to all the contributors here, without whom I would be severely disadvantaged--
--SK

[JonMD]

I am trying to compile mach64.o against a 2.6.26.2 kernel (from kernel.org) that I have compiled using the "Master Kernel Thread". Initially I got an error stating that /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu couldn't be found so I copied makefile to that. After that I got

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:223: warning: ignoring old commands for target `zlilo'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:223: warning: overriding commands for target `bzlilo'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:223: warning: ignoring old commands for target `bzlilo'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:226: warning: overriding commands for target `zdisk'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:226: warning: ignoring old commands for target `zdisk'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:226: warning: overriding commands for target `bzdisk'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:226: warning: ignoring old commands for target `bzdisk'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: overriding commands for target `fdimage'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: ignoring old commands for target `fdimage'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: overriding commands for target `fdimage144'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: ignoring old commands for target `fdimage144'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: overriding commands for target `fdimage288'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: ignoring old commands for target `fdimage288'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: overriding commands for target `isoimage'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:229: warning: ignoring old commands for target `isoimage'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:232: warning: overriding commands for target `install'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:232: warning: ignoring old commands for target `install'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:236: warning: overriding commands for target `vdso_install'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:236: warning: ignoring old commands for target `vdso_install'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:239: warning: overriding commands for target `archclean'
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26.2/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu:239: warning: ignoring old commands for target `archclean'
make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

This seemed to repeat several times before I hit Control-C.

What is the best way to get this to compile against this kernel?
P.S. I am using this kernel so that rt61pci module doesn't cause kernel panic when using wireless card.

[JonMD]

Solved this by using export LINUXDIR=/usr/src/linux instead of /usr/src/linux-headers.
For some reason the makefiles in the header package are different

glxgears achieving 298 FPS for 16 bit
Compositing efffects now working in xfce.

[dcottingham]

I've been trying the method of posts 215/216 to get a working mach64 kernel module for 8.10 (kernel 2.6.27-11-generic). But no joy.

When I try depmod -a; modprobe mach64 I get Invalid module format. I check dmesg and there's lots of lines about symbol version mismatches. I check drm/README and it gives instructions for how to deal with this case: lose your Module.symvers file, make clean, and build again. So I do.

Now when I try to load it, I get the same complaint (Invalid module format) bu now dmesg says: No symbol version for struct_module.

Any ideas how I can get past this?

And has this thread set a new record for longevity yet?

[ModelR]

Note: The git of the drm that I downloaded on June 26, 2009 caused my system to hang. There is a bug write up that specifies that drm versions after 2.4.1 will cause the system to hang

I was able to successfully get this working. I made a blog post with a good amount of reference links to go through if your having troubles.

Here is the link

The system that I Was able to get it running on was a Dell Latitude CPx series consisting of:

-Debian Lenny 5.01 with kernel version 2.6.26-2-686
-VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

If your using kernel version 2.6.30 be prepared for a lot of code hacking

By the way:
dcottingham

Now when I try to load it, I get the same complaint (Invalid module format) bu now dmesg says: No symbol version for struct_module

Not sure if this will work for you, try building the kernel with DRM support. I found that when DRM support was not enabled I would get errors such as this.

I tried too many things on different versions.
I tried to document as much as possible.
Was not able to get it successfully working with Jaunty, but I was able to get it working multiple times in Debian Lenny.

Good luck.