The ati-drivers don't include support on the internal AGPGART of the driver for users with a via chipset. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Without the patch, starting X attempting to use the internal AGPgart driver causes a black screen that can't be killed. Expected Results: Started X properly supermario@supermario ~ $ /sbin/lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South] . . .
Created attachment 49578 [details, diff] Adding this patch to the ebuild resolves the issue
Had same problem here, amd63, same VIA chipset. The black-screen was in conjunction with a kernel oops... Applied the patch, confirmed it is working now(!)
the external agpgart is working correctly?
Yes, the external had worked correctly. But at first time I had configured that driver, it had used the internal one, causing the crash "black screen" and kernel oops. It was then a quick guess, to change that to external one. The average user will not guess that, not even thinking about external/internal. So apply the patch!
Changing the severity accordingly. I'll put it in short time, if nobody else will do before me. Hopefully it will make upstream too. Last time I checked I suggested warmly the use of the external agpgart.
should be fixed long time ago...
