building / configuring X correctly

[Christopher Barry]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:51:06 +0900
Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

>On 06.08.2015 12:13, Christopher Barry wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 11:29:16 +0900
>> Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 06.08.2015 09:04, Christopher Barry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> I got a new video card (radeon r9 390) to replace my aging hd7850
>>>> and it caused total system lockups in debian sid after just a few
>>>> minutes in Blender. I decided to try to compile X and friends from
>>>> source to get the latest of everything (using build.sh). I compiled
>>>> and installed the latest LLVM and glamor as well. I've used
>>>> multiple sources of information from the web, but I'm stymied at
>>>> this point.
>>>>
>>>> Bottom line: I get no hw acceleration, only two of my three
>>>> monitors are displaying, and it's not clear to me if I have
>>>> radeonsi running right or not or at all.
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping someone can spot something obviously wrong I'm doing.
>>>> There's a bunch of different log and system output data in the
>>>> linked zipfile that may prove useful in understanding what's not
>>>> right. 
>>>>
>>>> https://filetea.me/t1sY8IXSi6CTVivPu7e3oRTsw
>>>>
>>>> The build log shows a bunch of attempts at getting mesa to compile,
>>>> but indeed it finally did. I'm not sure my options are correct
>>>> though.
>>>
>>> Looks fine to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>From Xorg.0.log:
>>>
>>>> [     9.806] couldn't get display device
>>>> [     9.806] (EE) RADEON(0): glamor detected, failed to initialize
>>>> EGL.
>>>
>>> glamor fails to initialize EGL, so you're currently not using any
>>> hardware acceleration. Can try running Xorg with the environment
>>> variable EGL_LOG_LEVEL=debug and get the stderr output from that?
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> I honestly didn't really know how to do what you asked, but I tried
>> this:
>> 
>> export EGL_LOG_LEVEL=debug; Xorg :1 -terminate \
>> 2>&1 >> /tmp/egl-debug.log & sleep 2 ; DISPLAY=:1 xterm
>
>Yeah, that's basically what I had in mind.
>
>
>> Nothing got output to /tmp/egl-debug.log, and these errors were in
>> the new Xorg.1.log:
>
>The permission errors aren't in the Xorg.0.log you referenced before,
>so I don't think they're relevant.
>
>
>It looks like libgbm fails to initialize. According to the ldconfig.log
>you referenced, libgbm.so.1 isn't getting picked up from /opt/xorg,
>fixing that might help.
>
>

OK, cool. Seems I'm actually closer than I thought :)

Thanks so much for the realtime help Michael!

Cheers