Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Version: 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
Severity: important
The xserver radeon package leaves a completely unusable screen on the
Hewlett-Packard BW-PCs; since
this is a popular machine ordered in masses by the district of
Baden-Württemberg in Germany for all
public institutions, this renders Debian lenny unusable for a large user class,
including universities
and student pools.
Problem description is that the vertical frequency of the monitor is
mispredicted - the HP monitor
reports that the card generates a vertical frequency of 90Hz, much too high for
the monitor to follow,
so likely the EDID/DDC data arrives corrupted.
The graphics driver *did/does* work for OpenSuSE 10.2 in the 6.6.3 kernel
package with one SuSE-specific
patch applied.
Here's more information on the hardware:
t...@latraviata:~ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address
Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress
200]
01:05.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress Series (RS482)
3f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
Interestingly, the driver reports that a LVDS type of connector is in use,
though this is a desktop
(HP dc5750 Microtower), not a laptop, and the monitor is connected via DVI, not
LVDS.
(II) RADEON(0): Port0:
Monitor -- AUTO
Connector -- VGA
DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
TMDS Type -- None
DDC Type -- 0x68
(II) RADEON(0): Port1:
Monitor -- AUTO
Connector -- LVDS
DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
TMDS Type -- Internal
DDC Type -- 0x68
(II) RADEON(0): Port2:
Monitor -- AUTO
Connector -- STV
DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
TMDS Type -- None
DDC Type -- 0x0
Full report below.
The following line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf seems to work around this problem and
gives me a display:
Section Device
BoardNameRadeon XPRESS 200 5974 (PCIE)
BusIDPCI:1:5:0
Driver radeon
Identifier Device[0]
Option LVDSProbePLL off # this one
VendorName ATI
EndSection
which is in agreement to the above.
Full Xorg log:
X.Org X Server 1.4.2
Release Date: 11 June 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-10)
Current Operating System: Linux latraviata 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10
17:57:00 UTC 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 09 January 2009 02:16:05AM
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Mar 7 13:36:35 2009
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) ServerLayout Layout[all]
(**) |--Screen Screen[0] (0)
(**) | |--Monitor Monitor[0]
(**) | |--Device Device[0]
(**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard
(**) |--Input Device Configured Mouse
(**) Option Xinerama off
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
(==) RgbPath set to /etc/X11/rgb
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/modules
