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[Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx>]

NIcklas, Well over the weekend, I tried installing the fglrx driver from ATI
and it completely blew up my install. I ended up reinstalling from scratch,
following my notes. A couple of things, 1. I will wait for better support of
the PMD Graphics card before trying again ;) 2. I didn't need to upgrade
MESA to get full 3d/compiz working with the 3.1.0-rc6 kernel. MESA 7.10.2
works just fine. Everything else went in fine as per my notes. vaio patched
kernel, WWAN, Clickpad, Power Management, FN buttons, etc. Maybe I'll post
my install notes. See if you can see anything different.

DoTheDog

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Yes,
>
> Maybe I should try to strip out the other patches. It really sounds like
> you have achieved a stable system somehow :)
>
> I will keep digging and recompiling.. Thanks for the input btw!
>
> Nice weekend to everyone on the list!
>
> /nicklas
>
>
> On 2011-09-23 19:41, Rob Mukai wrote:
>
> Nicklas,
> Yeah, I forgot you were on Arch. I don't know a ton about Arch (I only have
> a linhes box that runs it and I rarely have to touch it:-). I am running
> Ubuntu 11.04.  I wonder if it could be some of the aur patches. For example,
> I only used the vaio patch on the vanilla torvalds 3.1.0-rc-6 kernel. I
> noticed that the aur package had another i915 patch but it didn't appear to
> be relevant so I didn't apply it. I only recompiled the mesa git pull using
> make linux-dri-x86-64. I'm not sure how to proceed troubleshooting this. But
> at least your  "stable" mesa works for now correct?
>
> DoTheDog
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> Well, my build is based on this package:
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/me/mesa-git/PKGBUILD
>>
>> And then I also compile all the dri, drm, gl, intel and the likes from
>> GIT. There are packages for that too on AUR...
>>
>> They are installed and replace all the stable drivers of the same name.
>> But maybe i did something wrong, or missed a package :)
>>
>> /Nicklas
>>
>>
>> On 2011-09-23 17:49, Rob Mukai wrote:
>>
>> Nicklas, I'm sorry to hear that. Just a question what was your make
>> statement? I have been using make "linux-dri-x86-64". I wonder what the
>> difference could be. Also are you running it out of /usr/local? or did you
>> change the configs/default to /usr?
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> Just followed your "advice" and tried the latest mesa HEAD... That did
>>> not turn out the way I expected.
>>>
>>> 1. My GDM crashes are now happening very frequent, even without going to
>>> pages with flash. It can happen at basically any time - while switching
>>> workspaces or dragging windows around
>>> 2. The issue with my external monitor on HDMI is still present (black
>>> screen on login)...
>>> 3. The drawing of my desktop seems nicer on the external monitor,
>>> however, on the build in screen it's the same.
>>>
>>> Have not tried 3d performance though... I have reverted to stable Q3
>>> release for now. Might try again in a few weeks.
>>>
>>> /Nicklas
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2011-09-22 14:04, Rob Mukai wrote:
>>>
>>>  Damien,
>>> In answer to your questions.
>>> 1. DHCP
>>> 2. With Flash
>>> 3. cat /proc/mtrr
>>> reg00: base=0x000000000 (    0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
>>> reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size=  512MB, count=1: write-back
>>> reg02: base=0x09b000000 ( 2480MB), size=   16MB, count=1: uncachable
>>> reg03: base=0x09c000000 ( 2496MB), size=   64MB, count=1: uncachable
>>> reg04: base=0x0ffc00000 ( 4092MB), size=    4MB, count=1: write-protect
>>> reg05: base=0x100000000 ( 4096MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
>>> reg06: base=0x180000000 ( 6144MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
>>> reg07: base=0x1c0000000 ( 7168MB), size=  256MB, count=1: write-back
>>> reg08: base=0x1d0000000 ( 7424MB), size=  256MB, count=1: write-back
>>> reg09: base=0x1dfe00000 ( 7678MB), size=    2MB, count=1: uncachable
>>> 4. recompiled removed the proprietary fglrx driver now I have 3d working.
>>> ExtremeTuxRacer now gets 60 FPS. So I am still running mesa 7.12-dev, but it
>>> seems to be working now.
>>>
>>>  DoTheDog
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Damien R <damienrg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On 21 September 2011 21:36, Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, here is my info:
>>>>> VPC-z2190X, i5-2540, 6GB ram, 128GB SSD dm-raid 0, PMD, 1600x900
>>>>> screen, Linux: Ubuntu Natty 11.04 with custom compiled 3.1.0-rc6 x86-64 (no
>>>>> sparse_irq, vaio patch), gnome 2.32.1
>>>>>
>>>>> Ethernet timeout: no (although before I moved to rc6 I had compiled the
>>>>> r8168 driver from realtek. I can't compile it for some reason on rc6 but it
>>>>> does appear that the r8169 driver works ok.)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a dhcp or static IP address ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  Rendering problem: haven't noticed...
>>>>> Random crash: sometimes. but not really noticeable.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is flash installed or not ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I do have the mtrr errors:
>>>>>
>>>>>  $ dmesg | grep -i mtrr
>>>>> [    0.000000] MTRR default type: uncachable
>>>>> [    0.000000] MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
>>>>> [    0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
>>>>> [    2.603613] mtrr: no more MTRRs available
>>>>> [    2.603618] [drm] MTRR allocation failed.  Graphics performance may
>>>>> suffer.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  $ sudo cat /proc/mttr
>>>>> cat: /proc/mttr: No such file or directory
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah sorry, I misspelled the command, it is:
>>>> cat /proc/mtrr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> And 3d graphics are not that great. Extreme Tux Racer I get like 2 FPS.
>>>>> Actually now I can't even get glxinfo to show... I wonder what I did...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Try with default drm and mesa packages if you have compiled your own
>>>> (maybe you can install packages from 11.10).
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Damien R.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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