XOrg fails on PowerMac G4/Radeon/Linux 2.6.8

Andreas Tobler toa at pop.agri.ch
Sat Dec 11 10:36:39 PST 2004


Hi Albrecht,

Albrecht Dreß wrote:

> Booting into 2.6.8, X doesn't start any more. During the start process,
> the screen shortly flickers, and then it ejects saying that no usable
> screens have been found. Switch back to 2.4 - works fine again, with the
> same xorg and config. The failed log is attached again.

I have here an old pm9600 with a radeon 9200 PCI. Bare Xorg fails nearly 
the same way as yours.

Benh recently posted a bunch of patches which are aboslutely needed 
here. With them I have now my radeon 9200 running fine.

See here: 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-December/004950.html

The first patch.

And here a bug report of mine:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2020

Gruss
Andreas



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