Two Radeon Cards, Dell Dimension, Linux and x.org

[Ricky Rivera]

On 5/12/06, Ricky Rivera <ricky.rivera at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/2/06, Ricky Rivera <ricky.rivera at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/2/06, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Not to revive a long since deceased horse, but I just thought I'd
> > > mention
> > > > for posterity that this problem seems to be fixed in XOrg 7.1RC2.  I
> > > > believe due to Bug #6751.
> > > >
> > > > I do still get a hard-lock if I enable DRI and try to use both cards
> > > at
> > > > once, but as far as I know this has always been a problem...
> > >
> > > So it works until you run glxgears on both cards? or it blows up
> > > before then?
> > >
> > > could you try reboot, modprobe radeon and then starting X to see if it
> > >
> > > makes any difference?
> > >
> > > Dave.
> >
> >
> > If I load the DRI module and use a layout (I generally try
> > "DualDisplay"[1]) that activates both cards, X locks up the computer right
> > around the time it blanks the screen.  It doesn't respond to keyboard or any
> > other input, and I have to do a hard reboot.  Here's the log from my latest
> > attempt:
> > http://s88382932.onlinehome.us/files/Xorg.0.log-rc2
> >
> > Rebooting and modprobing radeon beforehand does not seem to matter.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ricky
> >
> > [1] http://s88382932.onlinehome.us/files/xorg.conf
> >
>
> For further info, starting just  the PCI card with DRI also causes the
> computer to lock up (although not a hard lock, X just seems to be stuck in
> an infinite loop).  This at the end of the log multiple times:
> "(**) RADEON(0): Idle timed out: 64 entries, stat=0x80010140
> (EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
> (**) RADEON(0): EngineRestore (16/16)"
>
> The whole log can be found here:
> http://s88382932.onlinehome.us/files/Xorg.0.log-rc2_pci
>
> If I can do anything to be of help, just let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Ricky
>  <http://s88382932.onlinehome.us/files/Xorg.0.log-rc2><http://s88382932.onlinehome.us/files/Xorg.0.log-rc2>
>
>
In case anyone was wondering, the 7.1 final roll-up didn't bring with it any
solutions.  Which, I suppose makes sense since the ati drivers didn't seem
to get bumped for 7.1 final.  (For what it's worth, TV-in stopped working
too.)

Thanks,
Ricky
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