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

[dougfractal]

sorry I copied the displayed link not the actual link

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=6

[lobiik]

Hi, I have Compaq Evo N400c with this card

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

And running 2.6.22-14-generic kernel, but

root@evo:~/mach64-20060403-linux.i386# modprobe mach64
WARNING: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting drm '/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mach64.ko': Invalid module format

And when I tried to compile modules from your howto, then common was compiled OK, but:

root@evo:~/mach64-20060403-linux.i386# cat dri.log
make DRM_MODULES=mach64.o modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/mach64-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build  SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
  CC [M]  /root/mach64-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o
In file included from /root/mach64-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.c:36:
/root/mach64-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drmP.h:44:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/root/mach64-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/root/mach64-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/mach64-20060403-linux.i386/drm/linux-core'
make: *** [mach64.o] Error 2

On one mailing list I found, that config.h is deprecated and removed from kernel sources 2.6.19+ (iirc).

I've also downloaded already precompiled modules, but they're for 2.6.18 kernel, so they will obviously not work. Any ideas?

In my xorg.conf is now being used driver "ati", but glxinfo says indirect mesa

And another thing - I've tried to compile older kernel, but it failed to boot 1st (can't recognize /dev/hda or sda, only UUID), solved that, but with same problems.

[mr_meuble]

Hi there !
Well I installed the dri drivers (i can't remember how but it was painful)

The device :

# lspci | grep VGA
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage MobilityP/M (rev 64)

The strange thing :

# lsmod | grep mach64
mach64     44896   0
drm       132824   1   mach64

The problem :

# glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

The complete diagnostic archive :
coming...

[dougfractal]

lobiik please try this link as your drm is from 03/04/2006
use the git version
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...69&postcount=6

[lobiik]

ok, some more progress with 2.6.22 kernel, 1st part passed ok:

sh ../scripts/create_linux_pci_lists.sh < ../shared-core/drm_pciids.txt
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-2-686/build SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-2-686'
CC [M] /src/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o
...
LD [M] /src/drm/linux-core/mach64.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 2 modules
CC /src/drm/linux-core/drm.mod.o
LD [M] /src/drm/linux-core/drm.ko
CC /src/drm/linux-core/mach64.mod.o
LD [M] /src/drm/linux-core/mach64.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-2-686'

Success

But ati drivers:

In file included from atidripriv.h:40,
from atistruct.h:40,
from atimach64io.h:37,
from atibus.c:32:
/usr/include/GL/glxint.h:28:19: error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from atidripriv.h:40,
from atistruct.h:40,
from atimach64io.h:37,
from atibus.c:32:
/usr/include/GL/glxint.h:95: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'GLboolean'
make[1]: *** [atibus.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/xf86-video-ati-6.6.192/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

---> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1646660

Soulution:

make banged me with an error because gl.h was missing.

sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev

fixed that.

Ok, modprobe mach64 loads module, but when I change settings to "mach64", then X doesn't startx. It says that module mach64 and module dri doesn't exists. With "ati" in xorg.conf it starts ok. Log output:

evo:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep dri
X.Org XInput driver : 0.7
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
(II) UnloadModule: "dri"
(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7
(EE) No drivers available.

evo:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep mach64
(II) LoadModule: "mach64"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module mach64
(II) UnloadModule: "mach64"
(EE) Failed to load module "mach64" (module does not exist, 0)

evo:~# slocate mach64.so
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/gfxdrivers/libdirectfb_mach64.so

/lib/libdri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.so
/root/common-20060325-linux.i386/core/libdri.so

so I did:
evo:~# cp /lib/libdri.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/
evo:~# cp /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/gfxdrivers/libdirectfb_mach64.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/

Result:
evo:~# ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions///libdri.so |grep drm
libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0xb7f6e000)

But X doesn't start saying undefined symbol: drmSetServerInfo, tried to do http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-b...msg316110.html
but still the same

evo:~# ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0xb7f31000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7f0c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7dc4000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

And this is where I am currently stuck. Now it doesn't start even with ati driver. Will try to install again latest ati drivers (used in that scrip) and will see.

And if you will find anything usefull, feel free to add into howto's

[dougfractal]

xf86-video-ati-6.6.192 is last years ati driver (june 2006) download the 6.7.192 or 6.7.195 from web site

hope that works for you.

[lobiik]

Ok, started from scratch, done that script (manually, error appeared on line 26 - last line) and got it working

[oasick]

IMPORTANT: The xf86-video-ati_6.7.195 and mach64 modules compiled are ONLY for Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 and kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (maybe works on 386 kernel too but i couldn't tried it)

This modules are compiled with the dougfractal's post (thank's for your great work )

1. Download this files:

xf86-video-ati_6.7.196_gutsy.deb
mach64 Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic.tar.gz

2. Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati

sudo apt-get uninstall --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati

3. install xf86-video-ati_6.7.196_gutsy.deb with gdeb or:

sudo dpkg -i /where/is/xf86-video-ati_6.7.196_gutsy.deb

4. uncompress mach64 Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic.tar.gz and enter the directory with console and:

sudo cp *.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/

sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe mach64

restart X and you have 3D acceleration

I hope that this solution works for you


UPDATED xf86-video-ati 6.7.195 to xf86-video-ati 6.7.196

[Offoffoff]

Last solution works for me! Great thanks! For my friend's laptop Compaq Evo n400.
But why I can see Slackware Package?

[oasick]

Don't worry Offoffoff . Slackware package appears because i created the deb file with alien and by default put this. But the compilation is for ubuntu gutsy