issues with ATI Moblity Radeon HD 5830

[Maróy Ákos]

Hi,

I have some issues using the ati / radeon driver with an ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 5830 video card. the card, according to lspci is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device
[1002:68a1]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1522]
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 2: Memory at d4100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at d4140000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [58] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s
<4us, L1 unlimited
                        ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr-
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1,
Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain-
CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information <?>



I'm using the following xorg-video-ati driver version:


 	 1:6.12.99+git20100213.221ef11b-0ubuntu0sarvatt

built on 13th February, from here:
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=lucid

and when gdm wants to start up, I get the following error:

(**) "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad": Device: "/dev/input/mouse1"
(EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad""
(II) config/udev: Adding input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation"
(/dev/input/event3)
(**) "Macintosh mouse button emulation": Device: "/dev/input/mouse0"
(EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""Macintosh mouse button emulation""


and with this error gdm crashes after system boot, though startx works
out fine.

I also get the following:


(II) RADEON(0): RADEONInitMemoryMap() :
(II) RADEON(0):   mem_size         : 0x10000000
(II) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION   : 0x00cf00c0
(II) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION  : 0x003f0000
(II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default
(II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (2048,8191)
(II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1920) to (2048,1922)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 2048 x 6269
(II) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() :
(II) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION   : 0x00cf00c0 0x003f0000
(II) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION  : 0x003f0000
(==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled


additionally, when I close an X session (after startx), the text console
is not visible anymore (the screen is all black). of course typing
blindly works, but that's rather annoying :(


what could I do to fix these errors?

thanks,


Akos