On Die, 2002-09-24 at 22:55, Harri Pasanen wrote: > > 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"
Looks like a problem with the GATOS code Mandrake integrate in their drivers. Unless the same problem occurs with stock XFree86, you'll have to ask Mandrake or GATOS for support. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
