TFT goes into suspend with radeon driver

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Also, if you previously had fglrx installed, make sure it is
completely removed before trying the open drivers or vesa.

Alex

>
>> 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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