OpenGL is not working: KDE4.10.5 RadeonHD7870 xf86-video-ati

Question

Good evening sirs.
I am using a fresh installation of KDE 4.10.5, a Radeon HD 7870 graphics card and the xf86-video-ati open source driver.
Unfortunately I am not able to use the effects of Kwin which require OpenGL.
When I try to set de compositing type from XRender to OpenGL there is no error but after I close and reopen the settings menu this is reset to XRender (without any warning!).
The reason is:
~/.xsession-errors
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.2, 128 bits)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.1.4
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
Driver: LLVMpipe
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 2.1
GLSL version: 1.20
Mesa version: 9.1.4
X server version: 1.14.2
Linux kernel version: 3.9.9
Direct rendering: yes
Requires strict binding: yes
GLSL shaders: yes
Texture NPOT support: yes
Virtual Machine: no
NO VSYNC! glXGetVideoSync, haveSwapInterval, glXIsDirect false false 1
kwin(3689): OpenGL driver recommends XRender based compositing. Falling back to XRender.
kwin(3689): To overwrite the detection use the environment variable KWIN_COMPOSE
kwin(3689): For more information see http://community.kde.org/KWin/Environment_Variables#KWIN_COMPOSE
kwin(3689): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled
kwin(3689): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up
kwin(3689) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_startupfeedback" is not supported
kwin(3689) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_blur" is not supported
kwin(3689) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_wobblywindows" is not supported
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c001b6
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c001ad
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c001a4
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c0019b
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c00192
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c00189
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c00180
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1c00177
Also the module seems to be loaded.
lsmod | grep radeon
radeon 754506 2
i2c_algo_bit 5391 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 35086 1 radeon
ttm 65164 1 radeon
drm 230077 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
i2c_core 22479 5 drm,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
I would be really grateful if anybody could help me to get this stuff running.
Kind regards,
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Last edited by whirlpool (2013-07-07 14:48:55)

Answer 1

pacman -Qs xf86-video
local/xf86-video-ati 1:7.1.0-3 (xorg-drivers xorg)
X.org ati video driver
I want to run
Xorg :0 -configure
to create all the necessary *.conf files by the X-Servers autodetection.
The problem is that I get an error while running the command above.
Is there any better way to create a "fresh" X installation?
Error when trying to create the X servers configuration files:
X.Org X Server 1.14.2
Release Date: 2013-06-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.9.7-1-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux neptun 3.9.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 3 22:45:16 CEST 2013 x86_64
Kernel command line: cryptdevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/7e5fe344-36ef-4ee6-95ed-5eece0eb20c1:cryptroot root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot ro initrd=../initramfs-linux.img BOOT_IMAGE=../vmlinuz-linux
Build Date: 01 July 2013 10:48:42AM
Current version of pixman: 0.30.0
Before reporting problems, check [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jul 8 00:01:51 2013
List of video drivers:
radeon
ati
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3d) [0x57f71d]
(EE) 1: Xorg (0x400000+0x183489) [0x583489]
(EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f7aefc20000+0xf0e0) [0x7f7aefc2f0e0]
(EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (0x7f7aed8f8000+0x440b4) [0x7f7aed93c0b4]
(EE) 4: Xorg (DoConfigure+0xd46) [0x469426]
(EE) 5: Xorg (0x400000+0x7869a) [0x47869a]
(EE) 6: Xorg (0x400000+0x266d0) [0x4266d0]
(EE) 7: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f7aeea81a15]
(EE) 8: Xorg (0x400000+0x26bfd) [0x426bfd]
(EE)
(EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x18
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
which seems to be a known problem:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164147
Last edited by whirlpool (2013-07-07 22:21:04)