Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

John covici
2005-03-22T00:35:29Z

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.
> >
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> >
> > John Covici
> > covici@ccs.covici.com
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