On Son, 2002-11-17 at 02:37, Pascal Mainini wrote: > > I'm running Debian unstable on a Sony Vaio GR316MP-Notebook. > > I was able to set up XFree as delivered on unstable to work > correctly > > for the ATI Radeon 7500 and the Vaio's LCD with 1600x1200 pixels. > > Last friday (8th of November), I upgraded via apt-get update / > apt-get > > upgrade and since then my XServer is broken, I only see diagonal > > lines. Mouse seems still to work, also I'm able to login via gdm > > (I see the colors of my gnome-desktop-wallpaper), but its all > displayed > > as those diagonal lines. I thought this would probably have to do > > with horiz/vert refresh and I fixed that with no effect. Also, > replacing > > the XFree86Config with the original one didn't work around. > > Have there been some changes in the X-server, especially the ATI > > driver last week which can cause this? > > I have a few updates to this: > Some people asked me to include logfiles. I don't put'em in > the mail due to size but put it on www.guerk.li/linux/xfree.tar.gz. > The tarball contains XF86Config-4, XFree86.0.log, .xsession-errors > and xfree-diag.txt which contains the output of dpkg -L for xfree. > Very interesting is that the mouse works fine and doesn't move > in the diagonal stripes in which the rest of the screen is > displayed. So I think it can't have to do with refresh-rates > or something like that - the mouse should also be part of > the stripped output - am I wrong?
Perfectly right. It's a mismatch of the line pitch between radeonfb and the radeon driver we've had with the r128 before. The quick workaround is to tell it not to use the framebuffer device. > Another thing I saw in the XServer-log in /var/log/messages is > that there seems to be a problem with the drm (what is that?). The Direct Rendering Manager is needed for 3D hardware acceleration. > I googled around a little bit and found that this could be > an issue with a module of the kernel - is that possible? > I tried to rebuild the kernel (I don't have any modules, > everything built-in) but it didn't help. Should I build something > as module or am I completly wrong? You only need to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
