From: <dr...@bi...> - 2001-01-23 08:18:41
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Sorry the original post had the wrong return address. Hi, I have a rather major problem with the radeon drivers. I've been trying to make ti work on and off for a couple of months now. The problem is that upon loading the radeon drivers the screen switches off and teh machine locks up completly. I've tried the radeon branch, i tried the DRI trunk two days ago, and i tried the xfree 4.02 offical release. All do this, seemingly without fail. I've tried a number of different xf86configs, and most recenlty, when i tried the cvs trunk checkout, i booted the xserver without installing. I have an athlon 750, and the AGP is an AMD IronGate. I'm at a loss to figure out where to begin to fix that. Please, as i am at my wits end (the next option is to put another card in). Any ideas ? If not, what steps would you like me to take in an effort to provide some useful information about my setup, to help debug this. The card does work under windows quite nicely, I haven't tried the accelerated X server yet, to see if that works, but I was hoping to get the free drivers to work first. Besides in the long run they will probably be better :) Anyway, please help, I will find someway to get a pizza to the party that manages to sort this out for me. Jason |
From: Robert D. <rd...@di...> - 2001-01-24 19:42:20
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I submitted a similar bug awhile ago. See if it's the same. Although, I haven't tried any more recent code since it's a different machine working properly. http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121904&group_id=387 -- Rob On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 dr...@bi... wrote: > I have a rather major problem with the radeon drivers. > > I've been trying to make ti work on and off for a couple of months now. > > The problem is that upon loading the radeon drivers the screen switches > off and teh machine locks up completly. > > I've tried the radeon branch, i tried the DRI trunk two days ago, and i > tried the xfree 4.02 offical release. > > All do this, seemingly without fail. > > I've tried a number of different xf86configs, and most recenlty, when > i tried the cvs trunk checkout, i booted the xserver without installing. > > I have an athlon 750, and the AGP is an AMD IronGate. > > I'm at a loss to figure out where to begin to fix that. > > Please, as i am at my wits end (the next option is to put another card > in). > > Any ideas ? If not, what steps would you like me to take in an effort to > provide some useful information about my setup, to help debug this. > > The card does work under windows quite nicely, I haven't tried the > accelerated X server yet, to see if that works, but I was hoping to get > the free drivers to work first. Besides in the long run they will probably > be better :) > > Anyway, please help, I will find someway to get a pizza to the party that > manages to sort this out for me. |
From: <dr...@bi...> - 2001-01-25 06:10:48
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> I submitted a similar bug awhile ago. See if it's the same. > Although, I haven't tried any more recent code since it's a different > machine working properly. > > http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121904&group_id=387 Well assuming my mother board is the same (wish i could find tha manual, is there another way to check easily ?) then yes. A radeon 32MB DDR with an athlon 750 chip and an AMD Irongate AGP. Jason |
From: Gareth H. <ga...@va...> - 2001-01-25 06:28:57
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dr...@bi... wrote: > > > I submitted a similar bug awhile ago. See if it's the same. > > Although, I haven't tried any more recent code since it's a different > > machine working properly. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121904&group_id=387 > > Well assuming my mother board is the same (wish i could find tha manual, > is there another way to check easily ?) then yes. > > A radeon 32MB DDR with an athlon 750 chip and an AMD Irongate AGP. Try running with: Option "AGPMode" "1" -- Gareth |
From: <dr...@bi...> - 2001-01-25 08:11:03
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> Try running with: > > Option "AGPMode" "1" I'll give it a whirl. Jason |
From: Crossbones <fx...@ho...> - 2001-01-30 05:17:55
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Gareth Hughes" <ga...@va...> To: <dr...@bi...> Cc: "Robert Dale" <rd...@di...>; <dri...@li...> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon Bug (I think) (fwd) > dr...@bi... wrote: > > > > > I submitted a similar bug awhile ago. See if it's the same. > > > Although, I haven't tried any more recent code since it's a different > > > machine working properly. > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121904&group_id=387 > > > > Well assuming my mother board is the same (wish i could find tha manual, > > is there another way to check easily ?) then yes. > > > > A radeon 32MB DDR with an athlon 750 chip and an AMD Irongate AGP. > > Try running with: > > Option "AGPMode" "1" > > -- Gareth I've got the same setup, so I thought I'd comment on my end of this. :) Before using the option above, just getting in to X was tricky at best. It would sometimes work, but in lower resolutions with lower refresh rates. Using that option, X will always come up. I can't, however, exit from X. With about a half-dozen tries, only once did X actually exit without crashing. When it exited, the console was corrupted (scroll produced lines that had already gone off screen long ago, the cursor was never on the line text was being typed on.) Usually when exiting, the monitor goes in to something similar to standby. If I can be of further assistance, just holler! (heh) Steve |
From: Philip W. <pg...@do...> - 2001-01-30 10:19:35
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Yesterday, Crossbones wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gareth Hughes" <ga...@va...> >To: <dr...@bi...> >Cc: "Robert Dale" <rd...@di...>; ><dri...@li...> >Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:27 PM >Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon Bug (I think) (fwd) > > >> dr...@bi... wrote: >> > >> > > I submitted a similar bug awhile ago. See if it's the same. >> > > Although, I haven't tried any more recent code since it's a different >> > > machine working properly. >> > > >> > > http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=121904&group_id=387 >> > >> > Well assuming my mother board is the same (wish i could find tha manual, >> > is there another way to check easily ?) then yes. >> > >> > A radeon 32MB DDR with an athlon 750 chip and an AMD Irongate AGP. >> >> Try running with: >> >> Option "AGPMode" "1" >> >> -- Gareth > > I've got the same setup, so I thought I'd comment on my end of this. :) >Before using the option above, just getting in to X was tricky at best. It >would sometimes work, but in lower resolutions with lower refresh rates. >Using that option, X will always come up. I can't, however, exit from X. >With about a half-dozen tries, only once did X actually exit without >crashing. When it exited, the console was corrupted (scroll produced lines >that had already gone off screen long ago, the cursor was never on the line >text was being typed on.) Usually when exiting, the monitor goes in to >something similar to standby. If I can be of further assistance, just >holler! (heh) You can fix a lot of console corruption problems by adding a call to vga_reset to your xdm shutdown script. If you then change runlevel from graphical to text mode it will work OK... Of course this won't work on RedHat or Mandrake which start xdm in a different (and far less sensible BTW) way, but you can easily change a RedHat or mandrake system to do it properly... Regards, Philip Willoughby |