Broken video drivers in new modular X

[Hans de Goede]

Erwin Rol wrote:
> The radeon driver is still broken, and only works without acceleration
> (anything else causes hard lockup of the whole machine).
> Will Xorg 7.0.0R3 be available for rawhide ?
> 

Erm, my radeon 9250 works fine for me. Including DRI ppracer, this is on 
x86_64

Regards,

Hans


> - Erwin
> 
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:22 +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 02:44 -0500, Sadda Teh wrote:
>>> Hi all, just writing to say that on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop
>>> (latest BIOS) with ATI Mobility M4 video the modular X vesa and r128
>>> drivers do not work properly. 
>> My Radeon locks the machine hard, meaning no network, no nothing, only
>> can press the reset/power switch. I have seen previous reports here with
>> the same problem, but there was talk about that AGP might be the
>> problem, but i have a PCIe card (01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI
>> Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] ). 
>> That card worked fine with the old Xorg before the switch to mod-X.
>>
>>> When X is configured to use the vesa driver it comes up, but the
>>> picture is distorted (looks like 2 vertical desktops overlapping one
>>> another at various points, also colors are messed up). 
>> When i use the vesa driver i see things like that too. The icons of
>> applications have the wrong colors (looks like R and G and B are
>> switched) and they are also at the wrong place (shifted 20 pixels or
>> so).
>>
>> I am now running with the fbdev driver on top of the radeonfb this works
>> but is of course not optimal. 
>>
>>> As for trying to use the r128 driver, X cannot even load when
>>> configured this way, it fails with an error along the lines of the
>>> r128_drv.so could not be opened. Has anyone else seen issues like this
>>> with the new modular X packages? Should I file bugs for these in
>>> x.org's bugzilla? Thanks.
>> Well if it are really the same issues i dunno, but i sure have issues
>> with mod X.
>>
>> - Erwin
>>
>>
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