I've got an annoying problem. I just built a new system for a media PC, and as such, I only have a TV to hook it into, no monitor. I've got my Radeon 8500 in it, and it boots to the console (displaying on the tv) no problem. Then I installed xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1 and ati-drivers-3.9.0-r1, and ran fglrxconfig to generate a config file (symlinking the resultant file to xorg.conf). I've used this same process on my main desktop on an NForce2 board with my Radeon 9800, and it works fine. However, when I startx, the (tv) screen just goes blank, and stays blank. Checking the X Server log, as far as its concerned everything has worked fine, there are no errors in it that I don't see in a working setup. Also, if the X server is killed (cntl-alt-backspace), the internal framebuffer is messed up, so I see 4 tiny miscoloured versions of the console onscreen. This is also different behavior from my Radeon 9800 hooked up to the same TV using the same drivers, but on an NForce2 board. I assume this is some problem with the SiS 746 chipset, as I've seen lots of posts about it around. However, everyone seems to think that fixes are in 2.6.7, and that's the kernel I'm running, so I'm not sure what else to do. Anyway, here's my emerge info: ecw root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r13) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bzlib cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cdrom clamav codecs crypt cups curl dnd dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif faac faad fam ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb freetype ftp gd gdbm geoip gif glut gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 image imlib imlib2 joystick jpeg kerberos libcaca libg++ libgd libwww lirc lm_sensors lufsusermount lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska md5sum mikmod mime mmap mmx mng monkey motif mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 mplayer mysql mythtv ncurses net network nls nocd oav offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdf pdflib perl physfs png pthreads python quicktime radeon readline rtc samba sdl shared sharedmem slang sndfile sockets speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg t1lib tcpd theora tiff timidity transcode truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 wmf x86 xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xpm xrandr xv xvid yv12 zlib"
Please attach: - lsmod before and after X - dmesg before and after X using a different ati-driver version solves the issue?
Re: different ATI driver, I think I've already got the newest one installed? I had problems with older ones on my Radeon 9800, so I can't imagine that going to an older, buggier version would help anything? Anyway, here's lsmod before startx: unit3@ecw unit3 $ lsmod Module Size Used by uhci_hcd 28560 0 snd_emu10k1 89864 0 snd_rawmidi 19748 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 82184 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 20228 1 snd_pcm snd_seq_device 6664 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 65284 1 snd_emu10k1 usbhid 29760 0 snd_page_alloc 9096 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 3456 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 7172 1 snd_emu10k1 snd 44900 8 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep sata_sis 4480 0 libata 34180 1 sata_sis sis900 16900 0 ehci_hcd 25348 0 ohci_hcd 18180 0 sis_agp 6020 1 agpgart 27176 1 sis_agp usbcore 95968 6 uhci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd And dmesg before startx: unit3@ecw unit3 $ dmesg Linux version 2.6.7-gentoo-r13 (root@ecw) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3-r6, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #2 Mon Aug 9 23:53:54 CST 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 255MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 65520 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 61424 pages, LIFO batch:14 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000faae0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT SiS740XX 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x0fff0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT SiS740XX 0x00000011 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x0fff0030 ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT SiS740XX 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x0fff00c0 ACPI: DSDT (v001 SiS 748 0x00000100 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 6:7 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option. Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 devfs=mount noapic Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes) Detected 1200.400 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Memory: 255440k/262080k available (2521k kernel code, 5900k reserved, 871k data, 160k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 2375.68 BogoMIPS Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000020 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: AMD Duron(tm) stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1199.0855 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 199.0975 MHz. NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb31, last bus=2 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) SCSI subsystem initialized ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 12 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 12 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing Machine check exception polling timer started. apm: BIOS not found. devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 udf: registering filesystem SGI XFS with large block numbers, no debug enabled Initializing Cryptographic API ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1) mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Using anticipatory io scheduler Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) nbd: registered device at major 43 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5 SIS5513: chipset revision 1 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD6240E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1818KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 PM: Reading pmdisk image. PM: Resume from disk failed. ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3) ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed Adding 979956k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04Aborted Command Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected SiS 746 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: irq 10, pci mem d099c000 ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2) ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: irq 12, pci mem d09a1000 ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#3) ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: irq 11, pci mem d09e1000 ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: irq 10, pci mem d09e3000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:03.3 ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 8 ports detected sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003 eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xc000, IRQ 10, 00:0b:6a:52:30:bf. ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: remote wakeup libata version 1.02 loaded. ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD800 ctl 0xD402 bmdma 0xC800 irq 12 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD000 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xC808 irq 12 ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: remote wakeup ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi0 : sata_sis ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi1 : sata_sis usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using address 2 usbcore: registered new driver hiddev input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:03.1-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using address 2 input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [PSX for USB Converter] on usb-0000:00:03.2-2 USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex Now, I'll run startx from work, and then stop it, to get the difference. ;) This is lsmod after: ecw root # lsmod Module Size Used by fglrx 212004 0 uhci_hcd 28560 0 snd_emu10k1 89864 0 snd_rawmidi 19748 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 82184 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 20228 1 snd_pcm snd_seq_device 6664 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 65284 1 snd_emu10k1 usbhid 29760 0 snd_page_alloc 9096 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 3456 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 7172 1 snd_emu10k1 snd 44900 8 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep sata_sis 4480 0 libata 34180 1 sata_sis sis900 16900 0 ehci_hcd 25348 0 ohci_hcd 18180 0 sis_agp 6020 1 agpgart 27176 1 sis_agp usbcore 95968 6 uhci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd And this is what was added to dmesg (starting from the endpoint above): eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 198 MBytes. [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.9.0 [May 11 2004] on minor 0 Fire GL built-in AGP-support Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M agpgart: Detected SiS 746 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 Power management callback for AGP chipset installed [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000207 (hardware caps of chipset) AGP: Found 2 AGPv2 devices AGP: Doing enable for AGPv2 [fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f000304 (selected caps) [fglrx] free AGP = 54800384 [fglrx] max AGP = 54800384 [fglrx] free LFB = 61325312 [fglrx] max LFB = 61325312 [fglrx] free Inv = 0 [fglrx] max Inv = 0 [fglrx] total Inv = 0 [fglrx] total TIM = 0 [fglrx] total FB = 0 [fglrx] total AGP = 16384 mtrr: no MTRR for c0000000,200000 found mtrr: no MTRR for c0200000,100000 found mtrr: no MTRR for c0300000,20000 found mtrr: no MTRR for c0320000,8000 found mtrr: no MTRR for c0328000,4000 found Note that it is using the external AGP interface (ie, using kernel's agpgart). I also tried booting with the "noapic" kernel option, and that made no difference.
Created attachment 37284 [details] Xorg runtime log Here's the log from the most recent startx. I can't see anything of particular note in it, but I did work on this late last night, so it's entirely possible I missed something. ;)
I dug up an additional monitor yesterday night, and did some more testing. The VGA output works *fine*. It just that *no* TV output mode (no combination of primary, secondary, clone, dual-head) works whatsoever. The best I got was at one point it showed a dark-grey fill on the TV instead of staying totally black. Also, I upgraded to ati-drivers-3.11.1-1, with no change in the problems I'm having. If only ATI's VGA->Component dongle was supported under Linux, I could just use that, since at least I know there's signal coming out of the VGA port. :P
Just an update: gentoo-sources-2.6.8, ati-drivers-3.14.1, still broken. :(
is still broken with the latest releases?
With latest sources (gentoo-dev-source-2.6.10-r6) and latest ati-drivers (8.8.25-r3), X won't even start with a config I used to use. The Xorg.0.log file just says "closing due to signal 11", and there's nothing useful in the dmesg output. So I'd guess that the TV output is still not working. ;)
xorg-x11 version?
xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4. It works fine with the Xorg-supplied Radeon driver, although I am having unrelated video errors with multiple versions of xorg-x11 and multiple kernel versions that I think are related to motherboard stability issues. (video framebuffer corruption after using the machine for a random period of time > 1 hour)
Could you confirm the hardware issue or could you test the latest drivers?
Yep, the Radeon 8500 I had in that machine is completely dead now, so there was definitely hardware problems there. I put in a Geforce (1) card I had kicking around in as a replacement, and now that one is having issues as well, so it's really starting to look like that motherboard is cooking my video cards. :( In any case, I imagine this invalidates this bug.
Sorry for you hardware, marked invalid
