MostAwesomeDude: Gah, gotta go get food.
MostAwesomeDude: As soon as I sign off, bridgman will sign on.
MostAwesomeDude: Just watch.
MostAwesomeDude: ...Did I miss him?
dmb: yup
MostAwesomeDude: See, what'd I tell ya.
airlied: MostAwesomeDude: nope.. I think you need new light bulbs :)
dmb: o/j
MostAwesomeDude: airlied: XD
MostAwesomeDude: Wait.
MostAwesomeDude: Light bulbs?
MostAwesomeDude: Is that Aussie slang?
airlied: MostAwesomeDude: nope.. for the bridgman signal.
MostAwesomeDude: Oh.
airlied: I didn't see no ATI logo in the clouds.
MostAwesomeDude: Hmm.
MostAwesomeDude: Oh. I put in the AMD template instead.
MostAwesomeDude: Maybe I need theatrical smoke and lights, too?
MostAwesomeDude: Maybe he's looking for his cape?
dmb: maybe he's asleep :P
MrCooper: merely mentioning 'bridgman' used to work within minutes :)
MostAwesomeDude: MrCooper: It depends. This late, he's prolly asleep.
MostAwesomeDude: I just wanted to get it somewhere into the backlog.
MrCooper: he definitely should be, but I'm pretty sure I've seen him up way beyond this :)
MostAwesomeDude: Yeah, the funny thing about insomnia is that it never kicks in when you need it. :3
spiritssight: Is there any one here that could tell me if I can use the open source drivers for ATI x1300 mobile to use mythtv
legume: got a HD3850 AGP for his birthday :-)
legume: If I want to add it's PCIID - what do the last fields in radeon_chipinfo_gen.h mean?
spiritssight: legume do you know how to setup ati driver open source so that I could watch TV
agd5f: spiritssight: yes, the x1300 is supported
spiritssight: my gf geting mad at me not able to watch TV for a week now
spiritssight: could you PLEASE PLEASE help
agd5f: spiritssight: what's the problem?
spiritssight: when I go into mythtv its blank for watch TV and I was told its a video setup issue
spiritssight: I have the log if you want to see it
agd5f: spiritssight: sounds like a mythtv issue
agd5f: if mythtv requires Xv, make sure you ahve the latest drm installed as that is requierd for Xv on r5xx cards
spiritssight: how do you install XV
spiritssight: Xv
agd5f: spiritssight: the driver and xserver provide it
TobiasTheCommie: woohoo, just got new telly, so no longer need tv-out, now i just need to get opengl to work on my rv530.. guess i'll start seeing if xbmc can work correctly with it next week(since compiz should work with the git version, well, it might work with xbmc as well)
MrCooper: what's xbmc?
TobiasTheCommie: not really relevant here
TobiasTheCommie: just wanted to rejoice
TobiasTheCommie: xbmc = xbox media center
TobiasTheCommie: being ported to linux, still alpha
bridgman: MostAwesomeDude: reading the TGdaily article now; interesting
bridgman: not sure if it's a Good Thing or an IP trap
bridgman: btw there really aren't alarms when my name appears in IRC
bridgman: unless you type it three times of course ;)
glisse: bridgman: while you here do you know anythings on cmdfifo format ? :)
bridgman: specifically...?
glisse: a sec
agd5f: glisse: reg specs don't say anything about the format
glisse: bridgman: http://pastebin.com/m619ee46b dump from cmdfifo at lockup time :)
glisse: i don't understand command fifo content
glisse: agd5f: airlied was saying that r200 doc speak of register/data pair
glisse: but on r200 there is 2 reg to dump cmdfifo
glisse: while on r300 according to doc only 1
agd5f: bridgman: regs 0xe70, 0xe74, 0xe7c
glisse: i am good at asking hard question :)
glisse: i should start a show on tv with such question ;p
bridgman: there are 64 entries so that argues for a single register I guess
bridgman: or are you concerned that's a circular argument; there are 64 cause doc told you 1 reg ;)
jjl: hi guys, i bought yesterday a HD3650 (http://www.kmelektronik.de/main_site/main.php?action=Product_Detail&ArtNr=18127&Shop=0). Im using 2 analog monitors with dvi-vga adapters, but mirror-mode does not work.
jjl: somebody an idea?
agd5f: jjl: what's the problem?
glisse: bridgman: well what i don't understand is how is stored the register where data should be writen
glisse: bridgman: from my understanding the fifo hold register offset/data to be written
jjl: agd5f: sorry, i mean the mirror-mode is only working
glisse: but i can see anythings that looks like that
jjl: both monitors show the same
glisse: r200 had 2 register to read one command fifo entry
glisse: one register was to get register offset
agd5f: jjl: use xrandr to setup dualhead
glisse: one to get register data to be written
agd5f: jjl: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
bridgman: yeah, all the different interpretations make sense; I'm trying to get a definitive "what is connected to what" diagram of the chips so maybe that will help
glisse: bridgman: someone still remember how the things is wired ? :)
jjl: agd5f: this does not work, if i use "xrandr --output HDMI-0 --right-of DVI-0" nothing happens
agd5f: jjl: you'll probably need to assign one to another crtc
agd5f: jjl: xrandr --output HDMI-0 --crtc 1 --mode
agd5f: then xrandr --output HDMI-0 --right-of DVI-0
jjl: agd5f: my xorg.conf -> http://rafb.net/p/sTPhsJ62.html
agd5f: xrandr should be fixed to choose independent crtc when non-clone setups are asked for
jjl: some frind has an HD3650 too but only other card (clubD3) and ist works
agd5f: jjl: it should work. got a log?
jjl: agd5f: http://rafb.net/p/1I3sfI38.html
jjl: agd5f: xrandr out -> http://rafb.net/p/sIpgpi14.html
agd5f: jjl: can you change modes ok? xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1024x768
jjl: i figured out, that if i first start x with the fglrx-driver (dualhead works) and then swith to free raeon-driver (only X restart) so all works correctly
agd5f: jjl: so it only works if you start fglrx first?
jjl: [17:40]
jjl: ok, with the fglrx-driver (under winxp too!) I'm not able to change the refreshrate of the 2. crt
jjl: agd5f: changing modes works
agd5f: jjl: how about turning off one head then turning it back on and then switching to dualhead
jjl: agd5f: xrandr --output HDMI-0 --off => dualhead goes off, but both crts stay on
jjl: agd5f: xrandr --output DVI-0 --off => both crts goes off
agd5f: jjl: weird
jjl: agd5f: dualhead works (my desktop has 2560x1024), the problem is, that both crts show the same
agd5f: jjl: yeah, got it
jjl: i don't know if this is important, but my video card has an white dvi-connector and the other is yellow
agd5f: jjl: shouldn't matter
agd5f: jjl: what version of the driver are you using?
jjl: i also tried the radeonhd-driver, but this was weird too
jjl: [17:59]
agd5f: jjl: does it work if you start X with only one monitor attached and then add the second one after X has started?
jjl: i will try it
MostAwesomeDude: bridgman: It occurs to me that if nVidia is really willing to just let anybody use CUDA, we could get it in writing that they won't sue us, and then add CUDA to Gallium.
Ori_B: MostAwesomeDude: so a CUDA based OpenGL driver?
Ori_B: that would be.. interestnig =P
jjl: agd5f: no this does not work, if i use "xrandr --output HDMI-0 --auto" the 2. crt stys off, but xrandr tell that its on (!)
MostAwesomeDude: Ori_B: No, a CUDA interface to Gallium.
MostAwesomeDude: Just like how the XvMC interface to Gallium doesn't use OpenGL either; it's making commands for the cards without needing to go through Mesa.
bridgman: MostAwesomeDude: yeah, I don't know the legal status of CUDA today. Don't think it is an open standard, it's more like DirectX, but will find out
BigBrain: MostAwesomeDude: However, a CUDA interface wouldn't be much of use in _Gallium_ as it's Nvidia only, isn't it?
agd5f: BigBrain: well, it's juat an API
agd5f: it's just that it's nvidia's and no one else uses it
bridgman: BigBrain: that's the whole question; an outside developer seems to be implementing Cuda on Radeon and getting support from NVidia to do so
BigBrain: ah, okay. Makes more sense then
MostAwesomeDude: BigBrain: It's no different from BTM or Brook+, it's just an API that somebody could write a Gallium driver for.
BigBrain: Gallium really offers __many__ possibilities, I see :D
MostAwesomeDude: bridgman: I believe that it is completely legal to implement DirectX, as demonstrated by Wine. I'm REALLY hoping that somebody makes a D3D frontend for Gallium. :3
MrCooper: s/driver/state tracker/ :)
bridgman: But the obvious trap there is that if Cuda exists on Radeon but we don't have rights to make a good implementation ourselves then that devaulues our API but leaves the only real good implementation on nvidia products
MostAwesomeDude: bridgman: Kinda, but Gallium has value that nVidia's driver doesn't have.
MrCooper: MostAwesomeDude: already done
MostAwesomeDude: MrCooper: ?
MrCooper: MostAwesomeDude: we did it in-house for one of our customers
MostAwesomeDude: MrCooper: That's awesome. Will you guys be sharing with the rest of us?
bridgman: makes sense
MrCooper: MostAwesomeDude: I think that's up to the customer; note that it's Windows specific
MostAwesomeDude: MrCooper: That's awesome. Will you guys be sharing with the rest of us?
MostAwesomeDude: People historically have used nvidia's driver over nv because it has so many more features, but now with Gallium+nouveau, the community finally is starting to have features that nvidia can't/won't support.
MostAwesomeDude: ...Stupid laptop keyboard.
MostAwesomeDude: CUDA is one of those things that nvidia might really try to hold on to.
agd5f: MostAwesomeDude: I don't rally see much value other than supporting nvidia's API, which is probably tuned to their hw
MostAwesomeDude: agd5f: Yeah. We don't have nv_f_p for that reason.
bridgman: I don't see CUDA being a good fit with Larabee, for example
bridgman: IMO it's the upper level APIs that are more important (GPGPU tools like Rapidmind, Brook), game APIs like Havok & PhysX etc...
MostAwesomeDude: Yeah.
MostAwesomeDude: Definitely.
bridgman: since they are high enough to be largely hardware independent
MostAwesomeDude: Actually, we shouldn't even be thinking of adding more state trackers until we get a Radeon pipe going.
bridgman: I don't think we're pushing CAL as a cross-vendor standard because neither it nor CUDA were designed for that; they're the gateway into specific hardware and drivers
MostAwesomeDude: kicks himself to get going on radeon pipes
bridgman: Gotta run. MostAwesomeDude, remember to pick up light bulbs ;)
MostAwesomeDude: bridgman: Will do.
MostAwesomeDude: See ya.
Ori_B: MostAwesomeDude: ah, I see what you mean.
dmb: MostAwesomeDude, if someone made a d3d frontend to gallium, would that mean easier porting of games?
MostAwesomeDude: dmb: One better. It means that you could bring D3D games directly over to Linux.
MostAwesomeDude: UT2004, for example, would need to change their input code a bit. That's it. They already use OpenAL.
dmb: MostAwesomeDude, well, that would require the use of wine anyway
dmb: oh
nha: basically, it means the Wine people wouldn't have to translate things into OpenGL calls
MostAwesomeDude: Okay, UT isn't a good example, but yeah.
MostAwesomeDude: nha: Yeah, that's the real benefit.
dmb: i thought ut used gl in the first place?
dmb: i guess not
MostAwesomeDude: dmb: On Windows it uses D3D.
dmb: oh
dmb: which reminds me, we will soon being seeing the steam platform on linux soon
MostAwesomeDude: Really?
dmb: in less then 2 months (According to close sources)
nha: huh
dmb: never mind
nha: other sources close to Valve say that's just a big hoax
dmb: nha, nope
dmb: nha, i'm friends with one of the people porting it
dmb: anyway, i shouldn't be talking about that in the first place, work time
beata: Hoy. I'm having framerate trouble with a Radeon 9550 and xorg driver.
beata: Has conf and log up at http://dalhagen.net/public/xorg.aiglx.conf and http://dalhagen.net/public/Xorg.aiglx.log, glxinfo says I have direct rendering enabled and that my vendor is SGI.
agd5f: beata: sounds like you have fglrx leftovers still around
beata: I shouldn't..but what would I check for?
agd5f: OpenGL vendor string should say DRI R300 Project
agd5f: beata: fglrx installs it's own libGL and a few other things
jaj: hmm, should hardware acceleration work on a Radeon Mobility X1400 (R500 based I think) ?
redeeman: jaj: in git i believe it should
agd5f: jaj: yes
agd5f: jaj: you need bleeding edge bits however
MostAwesomeDude: jaj: Yeah, use Mesa 7.1rc3.
jaj: I'm trying to make it work under OpenBSD but DRM support is quite experimental so I don't know if the problem comes from the radeon driver or from DRM
MostAwesomeDude: jaj: You'll need DRM 1.29.
beata: I loaded the output of glxinfo into the same place as the other files.
agd5f: jaj: BSD's are a crap shoot, the drm isn't as up to date
jaj: hmm I have Mesa 7.0.3 so that means no ATM I guess :)
agd5f: jaj: you need mesa from git for r5xx
agd5f: 7.0.3 is too old
jaj: agd5f: yeah, I'll just wait for time to pass until it gets imported
MostAwesomeDude: jaj: You might be waiting until Mesa 7.1 is released...
agd5f: beata: looks fine. what's the problem?
beata: I get under 1fps with anything that actually uses it, besides 'glxgears'.
agd5f: beata: use ldd to see if your apps are using some other libGL
agd5f: beata: you might also try LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
agd5f: to see if there are any error messages
jaj: oh and I have another question, sorry if this is a FAQ but I couldn't find an answer. Why is there radeon and radeonhd? It seems to me like both drivers share the same goals.
tormod: jaj, see http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11244
beata: Uploaded to libgl_debug.log
jaj: tormod: thanks!
beata: It's saying something but I'm not sure what it means.
agd5f: beata: you need to disable low impact fallbacks
agd5f: in your .drirc
beata: I don't know what that is.
beata: Is attempting to look it up though.
arekm: it's a one of these options that allow people to write long posts on web pages explaining "how to get radeon working with x"
beata: I just found out about driconf. It says low impact fallbacks are disabled already.
agd5f: beata: your libgl debug output would seem to inidicate otherwise
agd5f: although maybe that line gets printed anyay
agd5f: yeah, looks like they are not enabled
agd5f: er disabled
beata: Hmm. Not sure. But anyway, having it create a drirc made the app speed up somewhat.
agd5f: beata: keep trying until that message disappears
beata: I think it's working. Getting around 18fps window'd now and no warning.
agd5f: there you go
beata: Now to work on another X server issue: disabling modes my monitor doesn't support.
beata: Which are all the VESA modes. :/
beata: Which isn't (I don't believe) radeon-specific.
agd5f: beata: the xserver adds a variety of modes which fit into the monitor's sync ranges as reported by ddc
beata: Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to disable them though, since my monitor screwes up when displaying them.
agd5f: beata: you'll either have to edit the xserver code or use xrandr to remove them
agd5f: xrandr --delmode