Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start and nearly hangs machine

[Mario Frasca]

On 2007-0225 10:48:42, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Mario Frasca wrote:
> You have a r128 board. So "radeon" cannot help. I should have said
> "r128" instead.

I will give it a try...

> > Section "Module"
> [...]
> > 	Load	"dri"
> [...]
> > EndSection
> >   
> 
> Could you try without "dri" ?

YES

that was it.

Driver "r128" also works (after disabling "dri")...
is one "better" than the other and in which sense?

> > Section "Device"
> > 	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
> > 	Driver		"ati"
> > 	#Driver		"fbdev"
> > 	BusID		"PCI:0:16:0"
> > 	Option		"UseFBDev"	"true"
> > 	#Option		"AGPMode" 	"4"
> > EndSection
> >   
> 
> Could you try without "UseFBDev" "true" ?

I first tried without the 'dri', then also disabled the UseFBDev option.
it remained on just out of lazyness while I was switching between fbdev
and ati...  does it have any effect when I'm not using the "fbdev" driver?

> > Section "Monitor"
> > 	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
> > 	HorizSync	59-63
> > 	VertRefresh	43-95
> > 	Option		"DPMS"
> > # Modeline "1024x768" 80.50 1024 1060 1156 1348 768 781 784 820 +hsync +vsync
> >   Modeline "1024x768" 80.50 1024 1052 1148 1348 768 777 780 812 +hsync +vsync
> >   ModeLine "640x480" 49.9 640 653 717 832 480 481 484 514 +hsync +vsync
> >   Modeline "800x600" 62.40 800 825 905 1040 600 601 604 632 +hsync +vsync 
> > EndSection
> >   
> 
> That's probably not causing your problem here, but do you really need
> these Modeline, HorizSync and VertRefresh lines ?

yes, I need them.

otherwise not all of the screen is visible.  I would miss some 15 pixels
on each of the four sides.  quite annoying and also the main reason for
me to go directly into gdm and not startx from text mode.

> > (II) Attempted to read BIOS 64KB from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:10.0/rom: got 0KB
> > (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!
> > (WW) R128(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!
> > (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not found!
> > (II) R128(0): Primary Display == Type 3
> > (WW) R128(0): Can't determine panel dimensions, and none specified.
> > 	Disabling programming of FP registers.
> >   
> 
> Not sure either...

maybe source of the problem which I solved adding those modelines?

> 2 years ago, it was claimed to be related to DRI. Disabling it as I said
> above could help.

I usually manage to find information googling, I must be aging...  I
still don't find the page you say was written 2 years ago...

thanks a lot for your time.
Mario

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