I have a mobility radeon-hd 3650 video card and when trying to use the open source radeonhd driver for X I'm getting a screen with just vertical white lines that are pulsing and changing color. The machine is still responsive as I can log in even though I cannot see anything. X works with the radeon driver (even though I have some repainting issues with that driver) but there's no compositing. Fglrx doesn't work with Xorg-1.7.1 yet. I am using : [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0 USE="-debug" 0 kB Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set driver to "radeonhd" in xorg.conf 2.start gdm 3. Actual Results: Screen corrupted Expected Results: Screen should be fine and showing the GDM screen emerge --info: Portage 2.1.7.4 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8400_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US ca en_CA bg" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonjour branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups dbus dri dvb dvd dvdr encode exif faac faad ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gnome gnome-keyring gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipod ipv6 irda java java6 joystick jpeg lame laptop libnotify mad mmap mmx mmxext modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png policykit pppd pulseaudio python readline reflection samba session spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi x264 xcomposite xinerama xorg xulrunner xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US ca en_CA bg" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa radeon radeonhd fglrx" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 210285 [details] Xorg.0.log Here's my Xorg.0.log when using the radeonhd driver
If you have the darn fglrx module loaded such artifacts may happen. You have to rmmod it or even reboot to get the graphics card into a sane state. Also, radeon tends to work better than radeonhd, you may wish to use that. Please reopen if you can reproduce this without fglrx loaded etc.
The fglrx module isn't loaded when this happens. Nevertheless I uninstalled ati-drivers and tried the radeonhd driver again and still a no-go. Just the same garbled screen.
As this card is now unsupported by upstream and masked in Portage. The xorg-driver should also get updated to not include a flag for it...
Closing then.
