[Xorg-driver-geode] BUG: AMD Geode driver fails on AMD Geode A830 board complaining about Modes

[Jordan Crouse]

On 09/03/08 19:27 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Néstor Amigo Cairo <nestorac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello!!
> >  I have a problem, probably a bug, using AMD Geode X.org Driver v.2.7.7.6
> >  on X.org Server v1.1 (X.org 7.1), Debian Etch (stable) 32bits.
> >  I have a A830 motherboard, with AMD GeodeLX-based 5536 Chipset and
> >  GeodeGX processor (so GX processor on LX board, but works fine). The
> >  board has a 800x600 CRT panel attached to the Motherboard. Everything
> >  works fine with vesa driver.
> >
> >  The problem is that when I configure xorg.conf with AMD driver:
> >
> >  [...]
> >  Driver "amd"
> >  [...]
> >
> >  And I try to start X.org, using xinit, I get the following error
> >  message:
> >
> >  (EE) AMD(0): No valid modes were found
> >  (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> >
> >  What's wrong with it??
> >
> >  I suspect that it does not detect the Display properly.
> 
> Could you attach your full Xorg.log so that we can get a better idea
> of what's happening? Thanks!

Also see -
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10205

Known issue with the kernel, bug in the X driver.  

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.