(needs xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.13.99) Radeon HD 5670 doesn't use accelerated 3D

[Chris]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver , the Radeon HD 5670 should have accelerated 3D support.

Mine is using software rendering on both Maverick and the latest Natty. If it makes any difference the computer is a new iMac (2nd of the 4 standard configurations).

Thank you for your help,
Chris

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.13.2-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-8.21-generic-pae 2.6.37-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.DisplayPort.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.Embedded_DisplayPort.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1920x1080
 edid-base64: AP///////wAGEN2cAAAAAAoUAQSlMBt4Im+xp1VMniUMUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBGjaAoHA4H0AwIDUA2wsRAAAaAAAAAgEGEAEKAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/ABDb2xvciBMQ0QKICAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFU=
Date: Sun Dec 12 23:53:15 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
MachineType: Apple Inc. iMac11,2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-8-generic-pae root=UUID=433a3a94-2314-433f-b6bb-68769b589f5a ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
dmi.bios.date: 05/03/10
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: IM112.88Z.0057.B00.1005031455
dmi.board.name: Mac-F2238AC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 13
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F2238AC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrIM112.88Z.0057.B00.1005031455:bd05/03/10:svnAppleInc.:pniMac11,2:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F2238AC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct13:cvrMac-F2238AC8:
dmi.product.name: iMac11,2
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: natty
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.37-8-generic-pae

[Chris (ccouzens)]

Hi Robert,

I see you recently updated xserver-xorg-video-ati to version 6.13.99 in your xorg-edgers ppa. I added the ppa and I now got hardware rendering. I hope 6.13.99 or newer will make it to the final release of 11.04.

Unfortunately I can't mark this bug as solved, maybe an admin can.

Thank you for your help,
Chris

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

Thanks for checking if things work okay with the PPA, we want to keep this open because the fix isn't in Ubuntu yet. The fix will definitely be in there by natty's release, it's just a matter of finding out if there are any official plans for a release soon or if we need to pull in a git snapshot of the development code to do it in the interim.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I'd be okay with us shipping 6.13.99 even if the release doesn't make it in time. -ati tends to be quite stable compared with other video drivers, so I think it may be worth the risk.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

# apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-ati:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

While it's called 6.13.2, it's a recent git snapshot of what will be 6.13.99 which includes the fix for this bug.