X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[John covici]

Hi.  I Have a Radeon 9200c and ever since some time in the 2.6.9
series, I cannot get X to start using this card.  It dies in such a
way that there is no way to get the vga console out of that console
and chvt from another terminal just hangs and xinit cannot be
cancelled.

This is the lspci for the agp card.
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
[Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
     Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c26
     Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
     Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
     I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
     Memory at fbe00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
     Expansion ROM at fbd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
     Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
     Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
     Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c27
     Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
     Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
     Memory at fbf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
     Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Any assistance would be appreciated.

-- 
Your life is like a penny -- how are you going to spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[Andrew Morton]

John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.  I Have a Radeon 9200c and ever since some time in the 2.6.9
> series, I cannot get X to start using this card.  It dies in such a
> way that there is no way to get the vga console out of that console
> and chvt from another terminal just hangs and xinit cannot be
> cancelled.

John, it would be useful if you could test 2.6.12-rc1-mm1, which has a few
fixes in this area.

Would it be correct to assume that you are not using either of the radeon
fbdev drivers?

And are you using the kernel's DRI drivers?

Thanks.

> This is the lspci for the agp card.
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
> [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>      Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c26
>      Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
>      Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>      I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
>      Memory at fbe00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>      Expansion ROM at fbd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>      Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
>      Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
> 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
>      Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c27
>      Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
>      Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>      Memory at fbf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>      Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
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> 
>          John Covici
>          covici@ccs.covici.com
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Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[John covici]

Yep, no fb drivers, but someone did point me in the direction of the
x.org server and the crash went away using that server.  These are
unofficial Debian packages -- for more information look at
http://www.nixnuts.net/files .

on Monday 03/21/2005 Andrew Morton(akpm@osdl.org) wrote
 > John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > Hi.  I Have a Radeon 9200c and ever since some time in the 2.6.9
 > > series, I cannot get X to start using this card.  It dies in such a
 > > way that there is no way to get the vga console out of that console
 > > and chvt from another terminal just hangs and xinit cannot be
 > > cancelled.
 > 
 > John, it would be useful if you could test 2.6.12-rc1-mm1, which has a few
 > fixes in this area.
 > 
 > Would it be correct to assume that you are not using either of the radeon
 > fbdev drivers?
 > 
 > And are you using the kernel's DRI drivers?
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > > This is the lspci for the agp card.
 > > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
 > > [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
 > >      Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c26
 > >      Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
 > >      Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 > >      I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
 > >      Memory at fbe00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 > >      Expansion ROM at fbd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 > >      Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
 > >      Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
 > > 
 > > 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
 > > 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
 > >      Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c27
 > >      Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
 > >      Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 > >      Memory at fbf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 > >      Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
 > > 
 > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
 > > 
 > > -- 
 > > Your life is like a penny -- how are you going to spend it?
 > > 
 > >          John Covici
 > >          covici@ccs.covici.com
 > > -
 > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
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Your life is like a penny -- how are you going to spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[Andrew Morton]

John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>
> Yep, no fb drivers, but someone did point me in the direction of the
> x.org server and the crash went away using that server.  These are
> unofficial Debian packages -- for more information look at
> http://www.nixnuts.net/files .

It's a bit sad that xfree _used_ to work (2.6.9?) and now it doesn't work,
and the fix is to switch to the x.org server.

Do we know what changed to cause this?  Was it deliberate?

Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[Dave Airlie]

> 
> It's a bit sad that xfree _used_ to work (2.6.9?) and now it doesn't work,
> and the fix is to switch to the x.org server.
> 
> Do we know what changed to cause this?  Was it deliberate?

If I was a guessing man and I am due to lack of time.. I'd say the
address space layout changes .. I doubt the macro removal patches
could have done anything that bad.. I suppose I could go and
re-install Fedora Core 1 somewhere...

Dave.

Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[Andrew Morton]

Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 
>  > It's a bit sad that xfree _used_ to work (2.6.9?) and now it doesn't work,
>  > and the fix is to switch to the x.org server.
>  > 
>  > Do we know what changed to cause this?  Was it deliberate?
> 
>  If I was a guessing man and I am due to lack of time.. I'd say the
>  address space layout changes ..

Ow.  I never saw any such reports.

It should be pretty easy to test that: do

	echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout

before starting X.

Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[Dave Airlie]

> >  > Do we know what changed to cause this?  Was it deliberate?
> >
> >  If I was a guessing man and I am due to lack of time.. I'd say the
> >  address space layout changes ..
> 
> Ow.  I never saw any such reports.

as I said only a guess .. when someone mentions 2.6.9 to me I always
think address space changes :-)

I've hopefully got a full day barring jetlag to try and get the 2.6
drm straightened out.. of course on my machine it all works
wonderfully... so I need to get more machines :-)

Dave.

Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[Dave Airlie]

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> 
> It's a bit sad that xfree _used_ to work (2.6.9?) and now it doesn't work,
> and the fix is to switch to the x.org server.
> 
> Do we know what changed to cause this?  Was it deliberate?

Okay I installed Debian Sarge today and found a bug in the drm version
ioctls alright with the older interface that XFree86 4.3 uses...

Anyone want to test this patch (Andrew I'll put it my -mm tree ASAP)...

I'm still at a loss to reproduce the brige problems ppl are seeing..
time to switch to i865 chipset ...

Dave.

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===== drivers/char/drm/drm_drv.c 1.63 vs edited =====
--- 1.63/drivers/char/drm/drm_drv.c	2005-03-10 20:19:42 +11:00
+++ edited/drivers/char/drm/drm_drv.c	2005-03-24 17:07:16 +11:00
@@ -144,6 +144,12 @@
 	if (dev->driver->pretakedown)
 	  dev->driver->pretakedown(dev);
 
+	if (dev->unique) {
+		drm_free(dev->unique, strlen(dev->unique) + 1, DRM_MEM_DRIVER);
+		dev->unique = NULL;
+		dev->unique_len = 0;
+	}
+
 	if ( dev->irq_enabled ) drm_irq_uninstall( dev );
 
 	down( &dev->struct_sem );