Summary: | x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 - blank screen on xorg-server-1.5.5 and ATI RS690M | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | George Shapovalov (RETIRED) <george> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Luca Barbato <lu_zero> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | jakub.sochor, je_fro, x11-drivers |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
output of "X -configure"
Xorg.0.log xorg.conf kernel .config new xorg.conf |
Description
George Shapovalov (RETIRED)
2008-11-29 12:49:54 UTC
Created attachment 173741 [details]
output of "X -configure"
Trying to configure X anew fails, as can be seen in the attached file.
Here is a more detailed lspci output:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 0206
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fe9f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Memory at fea00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
Kernel modules: fglrx
Created attachment 173742 [details]
Xorg.0.log
If I use old xorg.conf, it starts, but only gives blank screen, as described above. However, accordingly to this Xorg.log the card is detected (and reported as supported). No "EE"'s could be spotted either.
Created attachment 173745 [details]
xorg.conf
This is the xorg-conf with which this was observed. The bunch of uncommented options in the Device section were originally unset. I tried to randomly force some stuff to see if I can rescue this, however no difference in behavior was observed.
Please don't CC maintainers when you don't assign the bug as well. Could you try with a fresh configuration from aticonfig? Created attachment 173853 [details]
kernel .config
I did try it earlier, and just did again. Got the same result. BTW, the configuration created by aticonfig is basically the same.
Could it be related to kernel configuration? I am also attaching kernel .config just in case..
Well, I have a development, and a quite weird one. I was trying to hook up an external monitor and added appropriate fields to the xorg.conf (by rerunning aticonfig --initial=dual-head) and that made the screen work. In fact, not only this allowed the 2nd screen to work, the primary screen ceased to be blank and started working both with and without external monitor connected. Although I must mention that sometimes it takes ~10 sec for X to properly come up (but never significantly more), while more ofthen it takes the normal 1-3 secs. Plus, a few times I had it go into the blank mode again, usually (or even always) after issuing /etx/init.d/xdm restart, which was cured by reboot.. BTW, Jakub Sochor, who is on CC here, contacted me directly via email saying that he has the same issue, with the same model of laptop. So, this may be some kind of hardware issue specific to ati on Dell or even this particular model. Created attachment 174300 [details]
new xorg.conf
I am attaching the new xorg.conf that made the screen(s) work, for reference.
Please note, some of the options are commented out in this version. However, as I mentioned above, I started originally with even less options in a single-head xorg.conf setup and tried enabling some of the options that could or even could not, theoretically, affect the issue. So, I am sure the options are not responsible for this..
I am leaving the bug open, in case you want to investigate it further. However feel free to close it, it does look like hardware issue after all..
I'm afraid that you got your lcd mapped in a wierd way, xrandr shows it as the right device? using the opensource drivers show the same issue? I'm tempted to let it go as upstream but maybe that will tell use if the issue is in the driver or in the hardware. No, radeonhd driver (the one selected by X -configure if I unmerge ati-drivers) did not have such an issue, nor did the earlier version (~2 iterations back) of ati-drivers with xorg-1.4. With xarndr all I get is: $ xrandr Can't open display The device spexs did not seem to have changes since the earlier ati-drivers/xorg or radeonhd, according to Xorg.?.log files. Pushing the issue to upstream then |