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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:46:10 +0200
From: Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Beta4 - debugging the disastrous Radeon 7500 support
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It seems I'm not the only one having problems with the Radeon 7500:

http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2386&lang=en
(search on the page for Radeon).

Since this is a DRI card, it could be the kernel or X. So I (with some
effort) installed a kernel from RH. Same behaviour (machine just dies,
screen goes to power saving when trying to test or start X).

So, it probably wasn't the kernel. Then I upgraded (with even more
effort, I had to hack some files, rpm --nodeps --force with some RPMs,
- --justdb with others) to the XFree86 in Rawhide, and after it all, I got
to the point where X would actually start. A bit later, I could log in,
and I could even run Tuxracer. I can't benchmark with glxgears (RH 7.3
stock was running 1000FPS), since glxgears are in different packages in
RH and Mandrake. Now I just have to figure out why I have no keyboard
when starting X via the dm service (starting it as root from a console
works fine).

So, it would appear Mandrake XFree86 package is at fault.

Attached is the log file from when XFdrake tried to setup the card with
the Mandrake XFree86 RPMs. Logs available on request (but maybe not for
long) for the current working setup.

Note that I used the config file created by XFdrake, so it is definitely
not Drakx or XFdrake.

I have copied a section of the log that looks relevant:

(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xc8921000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc8921000 to 0x40012000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xd0000000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version
mismatch.
[dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.2.x is needed.
[dri] see http://gatos.sf.net/ for an updated module
[dri] Disabling DRI.
(EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel


I would really like to see this fixed before final, as there is no
Mandrake release that I have tried (8.2, 9.0b3, 9.0b4) that works out
the box on this card, so I will have to start suggesting people use
Debian or (even worse) Redhat on desktops.

Regards,
Buchan

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