Hi,
I have a recent ATI Radeon 7500, which I thought to be original ATI when
I bought it, but it turned out to be made by PowerColor.
I have a problem where by XFree 4.2.1, from Linux Mandrake cooker
sometimes, maybe 50% of the time, does not initialize itself correctly,
causing the display to go into powersave / wrong sync mod (the normally
greed led turns yellow, and display is blank). On those times X eats
99% of the CPU. If I then issue 'killall -s 9 X' from the remote login
as root, eventually X comes up OK, not necessarily after the first
kill.
Looking at logs, on the failed attempts the last lines have been:
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Dotclock is 157.5 Mhz, setting ecp_div to 0
(II) RADEON(0): No MM_TABLE found(II) Loading sub module "theatre"
(II) LoadModule: "theatre"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/theatre_drv.o
(II) Module theatre: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
On the successfull attempts it has continued after that as:
(II) RADEON(0): Device 0 on VIP bus ids as 0x00000055
(II) RADEON(0): Device 1 on VIP bus ids as 0x00000055
(II) RADEON(0): Device 2 on VIP bus ids as 0x00000055
(II) RADEON(0): Device 3 on VIP bus ids as 0x00000055
(II) Loading sub module "i2c"
.
.
.
A couple of times, but not always I've also seen on failed attempts the
lines:
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmSetBusid failed (7, PCI:1:0:0), device or
resource busy
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
My MB is ATI K7A, Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 GHz.
I do occasionally dualboot for WinXP for games, and the catalyst drivers
I downloaded from ATI seem to work fine - I'm not experiencing any
problems there, which I would think rules out any obvious hardware
problems.
I've read that third party ATI chipset cards can have problems under
linux, which is somewhat annoying, especially as NVidia cards to my
experience have not had that type of trouble.
Any ideas?
Harri
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