On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Cameron Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Radeon Mobility HD 5470 in my laptop, but XVideo does not work. > xvinfo reports there are no adaptors present. > > Xorg.0.log reports this: > (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable > (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable > (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so > (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 > > I am running kernel 2.6.34, xorg ati video driver 6.13.0 and I have the > firmware package installed for DRM (Debian sid, pkg > firmware-linux-nonfree). > > I think the problem is that this card is too new and there is no > firmware for it yet. All the firmware in /lib/firmware/radeon is for > R/RS/RV cards, but my card is a CEDAR (post-RVxxx naming). There doesn't > seem to be any firmware for it, and the linux kernel drm does not seem > to try to load any firmware. > > Other things seem to work OK. I've got KMS working, fbconsole on > radeonfb. I don't know how well 3D works, since I dont use it. > > Is this something I will just have to wait until ATI makes firmware > available before I can get XVideo support? Can I tweak anything to get > it going? Have I got it all wrong and my problem is somewhere else?
The firmware is available and newer kernels will load it, but the exa/xv/3d accel code is not available yet. Alex _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
