Bug 72790

Mike do you have hw to reproduce this?

I do not have access to it here.

Mike H - any progress?

Same PCI ID as Radeon 8500.  Should just work.  I've got a FireGL
entry in the hardware database for it, however, removing that from
the database won't prevent the card from being detected anyway since
it has the same PCI ID as Radeon 8500.   There's nothing we can
do about this for our final release at this point.  I will investigate
it for the future however.

On my machine, the card is detected properly and I can go through the
installation process. Attached XFree86 log and lspci output below.

Created attachment 88997 [details]
lspci output

Created attachment 88998 [details]
XFree86 log

Adding info from IRC:

<hadess> ok, it's P/N 102-85720-00

That is for the last two comments

The PCI ID is different from other FireGL 8800's, which indicates ATI makes
boards with different PCI IDs all called FireGL 8800.  Grrrrrrrrrr.

Oh well, I should be able to fix this easily enough I think.

Ok, I am going to download ATI's Catalyst and FGL drivers for Windows and
Linux and see if I can extract all known PCI IDs from them and add support
across the board.

Good news.  I have implemented support for these FireGL chips, and it will
be in rawhide hopefully for the next beta.  There is some other missing
hardware I want to add in as well first, and clean some things up.  I'll
update the report as soon as I have official test rpms available though.

I'll also backport it to 4.2.1 later on too, so 8.0 is supported in erratum.

Bug was marked private unnecessarily for some reason.  Marking public.

*** Bug 81225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Updated the machine to the new Phoebe beta. XFree86 -configure detects the card,
but uses the vesa driver. Trying to use the radeon driver fails.

Attached XFree log below when trying to use the radeon driver.

Created attachment 89459 [details]
log when trying to use the radeon driver

FWIW: this happens with redhat-config-xfree86-0.7.2-2

Script started on Fri 31 Jan 2003 01:02:01 PM GMT
[root@lotte root]# rpm -qf `which redhat-config-xfree86`
redhat-config-xfree86-0.7.2-2
[root@lotte root]# redhat-config-xfree86
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-xfree86/xconf.py", line 357
    current_card_driver = current_card.getCardData()["DRIVER"]
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[root@lotte root]# rpm -V redhat-config-xfree86
[root@lotte root]# 
Script done on Fri 31 Jan 2003 01:02:40 PM GMT

Is this to be expected?

I haven't applied my patch to the rawhide builds yet because I was waiting
for upstream major changes to finish so I didn't have to redo everything
several times.  Now the majority of upstream Radeon driver changes seem
to be almost complete.  I'll be porting my patch to the current codebase
and putting it in rawhide soon.

pcfe: Upgrade r-c-x to the latest version in the internal development tree
and if it still fails, file a bug report against r-c-x.

to not leave the last question open-ended:

the syntax error does not happen with redhat-config-xfree86-0.7.2-3, it
recognizes the card as Radeon 9700. Dunno if Fire GL X1 = radeon 9700 but at
least X comes up.

FireGL X1 is R300 based and is basically the high-end version of the
Radeon 9700 Pro.  I don't have this hardware, nor the details, but if
time permits I'll try to make it autodetect properly also.

Please attach lspci -vvn for the X1.

I have now added my patches to an official build.  Support for 8 previously
unsupported Radeon R200 family chips including various Radeon 8500 chips,
FireGL 8700, FireGL 8800, and the new Radeon 9100 from Sapphire are now all
supported in both 2D, 3D, and Xv in XFree86-4.2.99.4-20030129.4 in rawhide.

In addition, over 30 new ATI Rage 128 chips that were previously unsupported
are now supported including previously missing Rage 128 Pro Ultra chips,
and other Rage 128 Pro chips as well.

I have not yet updated the hwdata package for all of these new chips, but
the FireGL ones are in there already IIRC.

Please test this out and let me know how it works for you.  I have tested it
on the FireGL 8800 that Jim sent me and it seems to work well.

Oh, I forgot to mention... please change the bug state to RAWHIDE after
confirming the new driver works properly.  Open new bug reports if new
problems are encountered, or set this one to ASSIGNED if it doesn't work
for you.

Thanks for being patient guys while I waited for CVS to stabilize.  It saved
me a lot of work.

Created attachment 89805 [details]
lspci -vvn

as this is a Dell machine, you can look up it's specs via the service tag
398J521

2D seems to work fine (same as comment #17), 3D does not. tuxracer and chromium
are slow as hell. Output from glxinfo and xdpyinfo follows.

XFree86 4.2.99.4-20030129.4

kernel-smp-2.4.20-2.30.i686.rpm

from the internal Surrey mirror of rawhide

Created attachment 89808 [details]
glxinfo

Created attachment 89809 [details]
standard err when calling glxinfo

Created attachment 89810 [details]
xdpyinfo

Created attachment 89811 [details]
XF86Config generated by redhat-config-xfree86-0.7.3-1

Created attachment 89812 [details]
log of XFree86

pcfe: 3D will be slow indeed, because that card is not 3D accelerated under
DRI.  The new Radeon 9500/9700 are 2D *only* in XFree86 CVS and will be
in 4.3.0 as well.  There will be no 3D support for Radeon 9500/9700 or
ATI newest FireGL products in open source drivers anytime soon.

Any chip that is R300 based will be 2D only in XFree86 4.3.0 and in
our next Red Hat Linux release.

If it works in 2D, then it's working right now properly to the extent
of what we support.

I will however update our hardware database to make sure this card is
cosmetically named properly in the config tools and anaconda et al.  I've
also databased your lspci info in my stash.  Thanks for the details.

Since such a card is super expensive - even if it is a freebie..  you
probably will want to try ATI's binary drivers from their website, which
provide full 3D support, etc. for the card.  Note however that just like
Nvidia's proprietary driver that we don't support it yada yada.  ;o)

Take care.

Mike,

O.K. will use the ATI binary drivers once all the testing is done, untill then
duty comes before playing ;-P

Is it possible for you to remove the 'Enable 3D support' button on cards where
we do not support 3D? Preferably replacing it with a text '3D not supportred on
this hardware'? That should cut down on the support calls we'll get on these cards.

PCFE
BTW: As far as I'm concerned the bug can be closed once the cosmetic changes
have been made (even if the request about disabling the 3D support button does
not go in)

The redhat-config-xfree86 tool is not part of XFree86, and not something
I maintain.  Feel free to make a request for enhancement against the
tool though, and Brent can investigate.

Note that right now there is no easy way to determine wether or not 3D
is supported on a given video card.  Only the driver source code knows
for sure.  We grey out the 3D accel box (which really should be called
DRI because it is NOT just for 3D acceleration) if the whole driver
does not support 3D.  For a driver which supports 3D on some subset of
the hardware it supports, we have no way of telling what hardware is
supported programatically.  So this wont likely change for our next
release.

OK, as we have no way of telling I will not do an RFE then.

Upgraded XFree86 makes my FireGL card work, minus 3D acceleration. Thanks for
the work Mike.

3D acceleration should work as long as you are using rawhide kernel.
If it doesn't, please open a new bug report against rawhide for
FireGL 3D not working and attach new config file, log file, and
/var/log/messages to it.

Thanks hadess.

Closing as RAWHIDE as indication it works above.  I plan on backporting
this to 8.0 sometime in the future though also.

Finally installed XFree from Rawhide with Rawhide kernel.  FireGL8800 came up no
problem.  Started Chromium and it ran fine.

Thanks a lot for the work Mike