Ati driver and lack of firmware

[starsc]

Hi guys, I tried to compile ati driver as you suggest here:
http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... ATI_Driver

and all the procedure goes well, but when I reboot and the system load runlevel 4 it crashes and the only thing possible is to reboot again.
Tryin' to find the problem, I found this:

dmesg | grep drm
[ 1.682980] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 1.765169] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[ 1.765171] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 1.766777] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (JUNIPER 0x1002:0x68BE).
[ 1.766841] [drm] register mmio base: 0xFBDC0000
[ 1.766843] [drm] register mmio size: 131072
[ 1.770185] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=1024M, BAR=256M
[ 1.770188] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[ 1.770273] [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready
[ 1.770275] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[ 1.770355] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 1.770358] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[ 1.770960] [drm] Loading JUNIPER Microcode
[ 1.776157] [drm:evergreen_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

Have I to install a specific firmware for my graphic card in /lib/firmware/radeon/ by myself?
Thanks in advance.

[starsc]

Nobody can gimme an answer?
Please..

[Akuna]

Sorry I never came across that problem. It seems odd.

For my ati card, I simply issue:

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# sh ati-driver-installer-<release>-<architecture>.run

Without first creating a package, and it usually works fine. Maybe you could try that way?

[starsc]

I tried both of the ways, with same result..

[Akuna]

And you did install kernel-source...

[starsc]

Yes I did

[starsc]

I've installed many times ati driver on slackware but this is the first time I have this kind of error..

[Akuna]

Yes, never encountered that either.

[thenktor]

Are there any firmware files?
ls -l /lib/firmware/radeon/

[OxygenThief]

I just installed Salix64 on a HP Laptop and had a similar problem. I fixed it by installing the radeon folder from the separate linux firmware tree here. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to give the link as this is my first post, so just google "linux firmware git" and you should find it. I just copied the radeon folder to /lib/firmware, rebooted and everything runs smoothly.