ATi 3870 with Hardy Heron/Latest Drivers Locks Up X

[kingtaurus]

Hi,

I've installed Hardy Heron on my new desktop. Specs:
Intel Core 2 Q9450 (Stock speeds)
4GB of DDR2 Memory (G-Skill PC2 8500)
Asus P5K-E/Wifi-AP
HIS 3870 (AMD/ATI 3870)

If I tried to enable or install the ATi binary driver and attempt to use an Xgl server or X server (using AIGLX). I get a full lock of the system (no kernel panic, Alt-SysRq-<keystroke> has no affect, <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace or Delete> has no affect, ...)

I've tried using the hardy restricted driver package, envyng builds (8.3 ATi driver), and the 8.4 driver installer. In the Xorg logs, I get the following (which looks like the xorg.conf is getting the wrong configuration)... the warnings from the log file are below



(WW) RADEON(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x10000000)
..
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled
...
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

[sayems]

"sudu apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx"

[kingtaurus]

Thanks for the reply.

I've done that. Currently, I'm using the vesa instead fglrx. I think I may have found another thread that might have the solution (it looks like mtrr is not being setup properly). Re: HD3850, ATI drivers and Hardy (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768426&page=2)

[kingtaurus]

I think there is a bug when using 4GB of memory and an ASUS motherboard with memory remapping enabled. If I disable it, I can use the fglrx drivers, and I'm getting (awesome fps from glxgears):


gking@bender:~$ glxgears
53864 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10772.776 FPS
54057 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10811.272 FPS


further,


gking@bender:/etc/X11$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 3355540 kB
MemFree: 2068500 kB
Buffers: 4044 kB
Cached: 604932 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 695972 kB
Inactive: 336824 kB
SwapTotal: 8000328 kB
SwapFree: 8000328 kB
Dirty: 112 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 423876 kB
Mapped: 91144 kB
Slab: 63700 kB
SReclaimable: 45944 kB
SUnreclaim: 17756 kB
PageTables: 16008 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 9678096 kB
Committed_AS: 880996 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 41952 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359696351 kB


Further, mtrr shows all being write-back:


gking@bender:/etc/X11$ cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1


I got this solution from this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768426&page=2

However, I don't have access to the entire amount of system memory.


When memory remapping is enabled - it looks like this ...


reg00: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1

[kingtaurus]

I've submitted this to lauchpad as a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24/+bug/224404