Radeon Mobility X700 failure / current CVS

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:03:29PM +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to get xorg running on my new Acer Ferrari 4000
> notebook. The graphics card is identified as 'ATI Technologies Inc
> Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)' from lspci.
> 
> >From reading the list and bugzilla I understand that this card should
> work with recent CVS, so I've tried it with CVS from 29/09/2005.
> Unfortunately it doesn't work for me.
> 
> I tried the laptop's native resolution of 1680x1050, and 1400x1050
> (which I'm currently using ok with the VESA driver), and both give the
> same result. X appears to detect the card and start and run OK, but the
> screen doesn't show. Instead it goes absolutely jet black to start with.
> Then it fills up with very dark grey (what would normally be black) from
> the bottom right corner. It fills up in a most bizarre manner, rather
> like if I spilt oil on it! But quite repeatable.

Same issue on a friends laptop that has an X700 aswell.  Hardcoding the
resolution to 1280x800 (it's native resolution) and 24bit colourdepth
makes it start up, although with an 800x600 resolution.