TFT goes into suspend with radeon driver

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko at wonkology.org> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I cannot get X to run on a friend's machine I just upgraded. That is, I do
> not get any errors and probably X is running fine, but the display goes
> into suspend mode immediately. I replaced the TFT with a CRT monitor, and
> it also shows nothing and complains about bad frequencies. It happens both
> with and without xorg.conf. And also with the radeonhd driver, but that is
> not suited for this graphics adapter. With vesa, the same happens, and
> additionally the system freezes, I cannot switch to a text console (even
> after Alt-SysRq-R). fglrx is no longer an option with this card.
> I am out of ideas (apart from replacing the graphics adapter), and hope you
> can help me. Any insights are greatly appreciated.
>

Logs look fine.  Do either of the following options help?

Option "NoAccel" "TRUE"
Option "DRI" "FALSE"

If vesa doesn't work, it could be that the card is going bad.

> The system runs an up to date Gentoo Linux. These are the specs:
>
> wonko at tanja ~ --> uname -a
> Linux tanja 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #4 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 19 23:43:54 CEST 2009
> x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ AuthenticAMD
> GNU/Linux
>
> wonko at tanja ~ --> lspci|grep ATI
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV505 [Radeon X1550
> Series]
> 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV505 [Radeon X1550
> Series] (Secondary)
>
> Software versions:
> x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.6
> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.4 (also tried 6.12.1-r1)
> x11-drivers/ati-drivers (fglrx) is not installed as it does not work with
> this card, so no fglrx.ko module is loaded together with radeon.ko.
>
> drm part of dmesg:
> [...]
> [46624.744461] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [47086.578902] mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,10000000 found
> [47565.338458] mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,10000000 found
> [47646.769378] mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,10000000 found
> [48428.741653] mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,10000000 found
> [48444.857254] mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,10000000 found
> [48604.753538] pci 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [48604.755280] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on
> minor 0
> [48608.930781] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> [48608.931067] [drm] Loading R500 Microcode
> [48608.931091] [drm] Num pipes: 1
> [48608.931099] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> [48612.697407] [drm] Num pipes: 1
> [48614.332575] mtrr: MTRR 5 not used
> [48670.548491] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> [48670.548772] [drm] Loading R500 Microcode
> [48670.548795] [drm] Num pipes: 1
> [...]
>
> Log files and xorg.conf can be found here:
> http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/tanja/
>
> Thanks for any help you can give,
>
>        Wonko
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