Bug#746409: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: No 3D acceleration with radeon driver.

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Владимир Титов <megauser at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.14.4-8
> Severity: normal
>
> Greetings everyone.I installed Debian Wheezy 7.5 on HDD. OS boot and GNOME 3
> loading in fallback mode with error. I installed firmware-linux-nonfree package
> and reboot. GNOME loading in fallback mode again.
> ..xsession-errors says:
> openConnection: connect: Нет такого файла или каталога
> cannot connect to brltty at :0
> gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support.
> gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256
> gnome-session[3321]: WARNING: Session 'gnome' runnable check failed:
> Завершено с кодом 1
> dmesg|grep radeon command says:
> [    5.404816] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> [    5.406813] radeon 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [    5.411254] radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 512M 0x0000000000000000 -
> 0x000000001FFFFFFF (512M used)
> [    5.411263] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000020000000 -
> 0x000000003FFFFFFF
> [    5.412519] [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
> [    5.412524] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> [    5.415360] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
> [    5.474763] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent loaded
> radeon/RV730_pfp.bin into memory
> [    5.614678] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent loaded radeon/RV730_me.bin
> into memory
> [    5.678174] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent loaded radeon/R700_rlc.bin
> into memory
> [    5.682544] radeon 0000:01:00.0: WB enabled
> [    5.682639] radeon 0000:01:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
> [    5.682650] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon: using MSI.
> [    5.682703] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
> [    5.906783] [drm:r600_ring_test] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed
> (scratch(0x8500)=0xCAFEDEAD)
> [    5.906846] radeon 0000:01:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration
> [    5.923350] radeon 0000:01:00.0: f712dc00 unpin not necessary
> [    5.924982] radeon 0000:01:00.0: f712d800 unpin not necessary
> [    5.925979] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
> [    5.992586] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
> [    6.069809] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
> [    6.073226] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.16.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on
> minor 0
> So there is no 3D acceleration even with firmware loaded.I tried to install ATI
> proprietary driver(fglrx-legacy-driver), it work only if I create file
> /etc/modprobe.d/fglrx-kms.conf and write "options fglrx modeset=1". Otherwise X
> Server isn't loading - only black screen. With working fglrx GNOME also loading
> in fallback mode. In Windows graphic card work correct.
>

Can you try a newer kernel?  3.2.0 is pretty old.

Alex