radeon hd4650 problem

[Robert Noland]

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:07 +0100, beni wrote:
> 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.

That was with radeonhd, which doesn't output the clue that I'm looking
for.

> Where do i put that option ? In the Section Device ?

Yes, exactly.  The same for the options adjusting the AGPMode.

robert.

> Thanks for your help !
> Beni.
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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