Problems with an Ati ES1000 in a HP ML310 (onboard)

[Jerome Glisse]

On 6/23/06, Hartmut Wöhrle <hartmut.woehrle at mail.pcom.de> wrote:
> Hello Forum,
>
> I have huge Problems with the grafics card mentiones above. It is the onboard
> card in a ML310 Server, so I cannot unmount it :)
>
> The system is a Linux Fedora Core 5 with the Xorg 7.0 and standard radeon
> drivers.
> When reaching runlevel 5 the screen gets dark and the server doesn't react on
> any keyboard input  (CTRL-ALT-F# oder CTRL-ALT-DEL).
> When connecting via ssh from an other computer I realize that the X-Server
> runs mad (output of top):
> PID   USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2662 root      25   0 27532 4536 3264 R   99  0.2   0:30.36 Xorg
>
> see the 99% (sometimes even 150%, because of dualcore).
> Output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log at the end
> .....
> (**) Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys"
> (**) Keyboard0: XkbVariant: "de_nodeadkeys"
> (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
> (**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
> (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
> (EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
> (EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
> (EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
>
> and the last lines repeating forever.
> The server doesn't even react on the reboot or halt command and I have to
> switch it off. Is this a known problem??
>

Maybe know, i don't know to which family belong the ES1000 but
try commenting out dri modulue in xorg.conf (disabling dri). It's
likely the reason of the lockup.

best,
Jerome Glisse