issues with ATI Moblity Radeon HD 5830

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:17 +0100, Maróy Ákos wrote: 
> 
> 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.

None of the above indicates (let alone explains) 


> (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 :(

These issues sound like they might be due to running a non-KMS-capable X
driver on top of a KMS enabled kernel.


Providing at least the full Xorg.0.log(.old) file from a gdm crash might
give us at least some of the missing information.


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