Problems with X on Dell Inspiron 5100?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 04:30, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Is anybody using X and -CURRENT on a Dell Inspiron 5100?  I've spent
> the last couple of days trying to get the *(&*&* to work, and I'm
> still having a lot of trouble.  X dies with a SIGSEGV:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x20000) was already clear
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc0000,0x40000) was already clear
> (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
> (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c57)
> (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf0000000
> (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xe0100000
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was already clear
> (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM)
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was already clear
> (II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect
> (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2
> (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
> (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535
> 
>    *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
>    *** be the reason for the server aborting.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> This happened when I ran X -configure.  The same laptop works fine
> with Knoppix (CD-based Linux distro), so I took the Knoppix config
> file and tried that.  Modulo a couple of minor differences it happened
> again.  It also happens both with 4.2.1 and 4.3.0
> 
> The corresponding Knoppix output at this point was:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
> (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility LW (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c57)
> (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf0000000
> (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xe0100000
> (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM)
> (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2
> (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: G08303141XD
> (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 1024x768
> 
> Somehow it looks as if FreeBSD isn't reading the Video BIOS parameters
> correctly.  Has anybody seen this and done something about it?  I'll
> continue playing around, but it would be nice to hear of some solution
> close at hand.

Can you send me your XF86Config?  I got X working no problem on my 5150
yesterday, but I think we have slightly different Radeon cards.

Joe

> 
> Greg
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