new Xorg (KMS, etc.) for Radeon 9600

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:34:24 +0100 dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
> Tijl Coosemans wrote, On 11/11/2013 10:07:
>> On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:20:29 +0100 dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
>>> error: [drm:pid667:r100_cp_init_microcode] *ERROR* radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeonkmsfw_R300_cp"
>>
>> Make sure you have /boot/kernel/radeonkmsfw_R300_cp.ko.
> 
> Oops, my bad. I had WITHOUT_SOURCELESS=1 in /etc/src.conf.
> 
> Now the said 3D application works, though the performance is crappier
> than with the old Xorg...

That could be because of this:

info: [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M
info: [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 257392 kiB
[TTM] Initializing pool allocator
info: [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
info: [drm] radeon: 0M of GTT memory ready.
info: [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes initialized.
drmn0: warning: (-12) create WB bo failed
drmn0: error: Disabling GPU acceleration
info: [drm] radeon: cp finalized
info: [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[TTM] Finalizing pool allocator
[TTM] Zone  kernel: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB
info: [drm] radeon: ttm finalized
info: [drm] Forcing AGP to PCI mode

It fails to use AGP.  I have the same problem.