radeon hd4650 problem
beni
beni at brinckman.info
Mon Mar 15 14:19:02 UTC 2010
On Sunday 14 March 2010 18:53:40 Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:32 +0100, beni wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm running 8.0-RELEASE-p2.
> > I am trying to use the radeon (or radeonhd) driver for my Sapphire HD4650
> > card. But it doesn't work. I get a black screen just before the
> > logon/login screen should appear. And my pc freezes. I can not get into a
> > console with alt-f<x>. The only way out is a cold reset/reboot.
> > The only driver working now is Vesa in 1280x1024, but that leaves a black
> > border of 7-8 cm on both sides of my 23 inch monitor...
> > I asked for help on the OpenSuse mailinglist (i found their email address
> > in the Xorg.0.log) but they said it is the drm kernel module that is not
> > up to date (see thread on
> > http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/2010-03/msg00012.html). I manually
> > recreated a new /root/xorg.conf.new and copied it to /X11, but with the
> > same negative result so far.
>
> The linux folks don't know much about what is going on in FreeBSD...
> Especially not the suse folks. The ATI/AMD folks are fairly aware,
> but...
>
> > I am pasting my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log here.
> > Please cc me as i not subscribed to the list.
> > Thanks for any help !
> > Beni.
>
> This is an agp card?
This is indeed an agp card.
> I have an idea of what is going wrong, but I would like to see an Xorg
> log file using the radeon driver to verify. Based on the addresses
> reported, I suspect that your ring buffer is being mapped inside of the
> framebuffer, which usually appears as corruption along with other odd
> issues. If so, I already have patches for that...
>
> Other possible things to try are to force it into pci mode.
>
> Option "BusType" "PCI"
>
> robert.
>
The Xorg.0.log file was below in the previous mail, under the xorg.conf file.
But i can post it pastebin if you want it.
Where do i put that option ? In the Section Device ?
Thanks for your help !
Beni.
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