Bug#630345: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Xserver crashes with HD6700M card

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Willian Veiga <wiltave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex Deucher, I have an AMD Radeon HD 6470M but I can't select which
> card I want to use in  the BIOS setup.
>
> How do I know if my GPU display is MUXes or MUX-less? I've tried to
> select the discrete card using vgaswitcheroo but i get a black screen
> and the computer crashes.
>

Most new systems are muxless, so it's probably muxless.  Can you post
the dmesg from your system?

Alex

> # lspci -v
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc NI
> Seymour00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd
> Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev
> 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        Subsystem: Dell Device 04ca
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 54
>        Memory at f6400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>        I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
>        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
>        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
>        Kernel driver in use: i915
>
>  [AMD Radeon HD 6470M] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        Subsystem: Dell Device 04ca
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 56
>        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>        Memory at f7b20000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
>        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
>        Expansion ROM at f7b00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
>        Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
>        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
>        Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
>        Kernel driver in use: radeon
>
> # uname -a
> Linux willian 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 17 04:08:52 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
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