[Gllug] XF86Config-4 and ATI R128

[Axel Segebrecht]

Thanks for the thorough reply Simon :)

I'll try.

Axel

On 2/2/03 5:14, "Simon A. Boggis" <simon at dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 23:40, Gary Ford wrote:
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Axel Segebrecht <axel at segebrecht.co.uk>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:47:51 +0000
>> To: GLLUG <gllug at linux.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Gllug] XF86Config-4 and ATI R128
>> 
>>> I've tried several different servers now and still the same result ;'(
>>> 
>>> Further fiddling with the XF86Config-4 didn't bring much joy either... .
>>> 
>>> Please take a look at my current config here:
>>> http://asegebrecht.plus.com/xwoes/
>> 
>> You know, I just went through the same experience and I found that the 4.1
>> version of X just wouldn't ever work regardless of how much I tinkered with
>> it.  I had to upgrade to sid/testing where I picked up 4.2 and it worked soon
>> there after.  Just an FYI...
>> 
>> Gary
> 
> I doubt it is the X server package, unless debian have accidentally
> uploaded a new one which is completely broken (if so I imagine this
> would be fixed very rapidly, so "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" would
> fix it).
> 
> Looking at http://asegebrecht.plus.com/xwoes/, the XFree86.0.log
> shows a segmentation fault - it seem unlikely that this this a log from
> a session which ran with a low refresh rate (the original problem):
> 
> [snip]
> (--) R128(0): MMIO registers at 0xdf000000
> (--) R128(0): BIOS at 0xdffe0000
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> Leaving that aside, and looking at your XF86Config-4 and
> XF86Config-4.bak (I assume that .bak is your previous one?) it seems
> that you've lost all your old modeline entries in the Monitor section.
> They might not be needed (my monitor/card combo can auto-detect/setup)
> in which case this wouldn't matter. Everything else looks OK.
> 
> Does your setup work with direct rendering (with Section "Module", lines
> "dri" and "glx" commented out)? If it does, it might be that you need
> the very latest DRM stuff for your card. You can get it from:
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/ which will tell you to use:
> deb    http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/    ./
> You'll need to install xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk and also
> drm-trunk-module-src, and then unpack, build and install the drm kernel
> modules to be found in /usr/src/drm-trunk.tar.gz.
> 
> Once X is running with DRM on a R128, lsmod-wise you'd expect to see
> agpgart used by r128 (in your lsmod, agpgart is not used, and r128
> hasn't been loaded by X).
> 
> Hope some of the above helps / isn't what you already know - repost an
> XFree86.0.log w/o core dump and I'll have another look at it.
> 
> Simon


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