What Kernel? Look's like there has been some work done in the drm parts recently.. Also via is bitchy sometimes. IANAKH, though.
Hans-Peter On Tuesday 24 September 2002 22:55, Harri Pasanen wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
