On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Zhang Weiwu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit Desktop, with two Radeon cards on it. > > yulia...@andalusia:~$ lspci | grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530LE [Radeon X1600] > 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7290 (rev 9a) > > > Half of the time X could start, half fail. When it fail, Xorg.0.log look > like this: > > [ 17.082] (II) RADEON(0): PCIE card detected > [ 17.082] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: enabled > [ 17.082] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > [ 17.090] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0 > [ 17.090] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > [ 17.095] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 > [ 17.095] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 > [ 17.100] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 > ... > [ 17.201] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 > [ 17.201] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) > [ 17.201] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) > [ 17.201] drmOpenDevice: Open failed > [ 17.201] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2 > ... > [ 17.283] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card15 > [ 17.290] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for > pci:0000:01:00.0: No such file or directory > [ 17.290] (EE) RADEON(0): Kernel modesetting setup failed > > > > A check at /dev/dri is like this: > > yulia...@andalusia:~$ ls -lh /dev/dri/ > total 0 > crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 64 2010-10-25 16:06 controlD64 > > > Kernel dmesg showed various error message on drm as well as radeon > module. I don't know which line is significant, thus have to attach the > full dmesg to this email. > > Full xorg.0.log is at the bottom of this email. I put it to the content > of the email because other googlers might look for error message in > Xorg.0.log to reach this message post. Please trim when reply. Thanks. > > > What do you think is my problem and how to fix it so X always starts on > boot? Thanks in advance.
The drm is not able to access the rom on your secondary card so it's not able to initialize it. From your dmesg: [ 16.705425] radeon 0000:02:00.0: Invalid ROM contents [ 16.705469] radeon 0000:02:00.0: Invalid ROM contents [ 16.705480] [drm:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM Alex > > Zhang Weiwu > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
