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

Néstor Amigo Cairo nestorac at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 08:38:20 PDT 2008


I know the person who posted it. It's me :-P I thought there was no
relationship between those two bugs. I must apologize.

2008/3/10, Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com>:
> 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
>
>
>  --
>  Jordan Crouse
>  Systems Software Development Engineer
>  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>
>


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