On my laptop with an ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility card, I've had basically no luck at all getting the Xorg 6.8.99.x series of snapshots to work. I have tried both Xorg's "radeon" driver and the "flgrx" driver from ATI, both of which do not work. I've focused on the Xorg driver because I know ATI's drivers haven't been updated yet. When I launch X, the display becomes a garbled mess. There will be a top band that contains several copies of the contents of console I just used to launch X from and a bottom band that seems to contain copies of whatever was last in the video memory. I get the exact same results if I try to use xdm or kdm in /etc/rc.conf. I'm not trying to use 3D acceleration or compositing at this point. I just want to be able to login! :) I've created a seperate Gentoo installation on a different partition to work on this issue. Any help would be great, as I've been trying figure this out for weeks! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi aim alsa arts audiofile avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts cairo cdda cddb cdio cjk crypt cups dga divx4linux dpms dvd dvdr dvdread encode fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gif glitz gpm gtk gtk2 hal imlib jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ libwww lzo mad mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mng motif moznomail mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real sdl sndfile spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales win32codecs wxwindows xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 63097 [details] Xorg Config File This may seem a bit jumbled/crazy, I've been trying to disable anything I can think of that might be causing the problem.
Created attachment 63098 [details] Xorg Log Aside from the "INVALID MEM ALLOCATION" that seems to tracked in another bug, I don't see any obvious problems here. Oh, and 6.8.2 works just fine with both the Xorg and ATI drivers.
Here are the use flags I compiled xorg with: x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.14 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts +cjk +debug +dlloader -doc -font-server +insecure-drivers -ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint +xv
What do you expect? The ati driver is closed source and 6.8.99 is not even a official release.
Well, I'm not expecting the ATI driver to work at all, so I agree with you there. I've been trying to say that I'm attempting the built-in Xorg "radeon" driver, with no success. I know these are experimental snapshots, but from threads in the forums it seems a lot of people are having no trouble at all, which is why this worries me. I fear that when this does become the stable branch, it's not going to work for me, thus the bug.
Ryan, did you notice: (EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module does not exist, 0) Try re-emerging the synaptics module.
Created attachment 63422 [details] Xorg Log Well, the synaptics driver won't compile with these Xorg versions without a patch (see xorg 6.8.99 forum thread), so I just commented out all of that in my xorg.conf and used my USB mouse as the only one. That gets rid of the error, but I still get the same garbled display. Perhaps this problem only affects Mobility Radeons (laptops)? I'm still not sure what the cause is. Could I use gdb to find out what happens right before X finishes loading and the garbled screen appears? I don't know how to use gdb, but if that will help, I can try to figure something out there. Thanks for the help so far!
Created attachment 63423 [details] Xorg Config File
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/DebuggingTheXserver should help you out.
Well, I tried that out, but since Xorg never crashes, gdb isn't helping me too much. The interesting thing is if I've set kdm to load in /etc/rc.conf (for example), I can switch back to a console and see all the processes running for Xorg, kdm, and such, but I just can't see them when I switch back to X! I just get this static image which contains copies of consoles tiled around the screen. At a resolution of 1024x768, there are four console "tiles" visible. I feel like there is just some startup routine missing in the driver because with 6.8.2, I see the same console tile effect when I switch from a console back to X, but a second later the tiles disappear and X returns to normal.
Alright, one more thing to try: could you try all the various previous versions and see where the breakage occurred? Once done, file the bug at bugs.freedesktop.org and drop the link here.
Sorry it took me a while to get back to this... First off, I got rid of my "ricerish" CFLAGS and replaced them with "-O1 -march=athlonxp -pipe". Also, I'm now using the synaptics driver from the ebuild (which compiles with the new patch). I've determined that this broke between 6.8.99.3 and 6.8.99.5. I'll soon try out 6.8.99.4 (that one never had its own ebuild, but it shouldn't be too hard). After that, I'll attempt to find anything obvious in the code that might have caused this, though I know nothing about the Xorg codebase, so that probably won't get me anywhere. ;)
6.8.99.4 is the first snapshot that exhibits this behavior, and there was quite a bit of code added to the Radeon driver then, but mostly for Theatre support. I couldn't figure out what may have caused the issue, though Xorg's codebase isn't the easiest to work with. I'm currently testing Donnie's modular 7.0 ebuilds. If I still see it present there, I'll file upstream.
Ryan, have you had more luck with splited ebuilds? I'm having a problem and it's quite similar to this bug...
Well, I haven't even been able to fully install the modular Xorg, but I didn't spend enough time on it most likely. I'll give that a try in the next few days if I can, assuming school doesn't get in the way.
I've just installed xorg (cvs) from the fluidportage tree and I still suffer from the same problem, so I don't know where the problem could be...
What ATI chip do you have Luis? Here's the respective output from 'lspci -v' from my computer: 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8355 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 11 Memory at a8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) I/O ports at c100 Memory at e0010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
So, is it working now?
File a new bug if you can reproduce this w/ current x11-base/xorg-server x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati versions. Thanks.
