radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> I'm on my third video card.
> The first was a radeon.
> After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with
> an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it.
> Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one,
> I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650.
> It was the AGP card I could find.
> Knoppix 5.1.0 runs just fine.

I tried Xorg -probe
X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
just produced a messy screen.  No discernable image.
Here is /root/xorg.conf.new :
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> 	FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
> 	FontPath     "built-ins"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load  "dbe"
> 	Load  "glx"
> 	Load  "dri2"
> 	Load  "record"
> 	Load  "dri"
> 	Load  "extmod"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> 	Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 	#DisplaySize	  340   270	# mm
> 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> 	VendorName   "AOC"
> 	ModelName    "LM720/LM720A"
> 	HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
> 	VertRefresh  55.0 - 75.0
> 	Option	    "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "Dac8Bit"            	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "BusType"            	# [<str>]
>         #Option     "CPPIOMode"          	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "CPusecTimeout"      	# <i>
>         #Option     "AGPMode"            	# <i>
>         #Option     "AGPFastWrite"       	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "AGPSize"            	# <i>
>         #Option     "GARTSize"           	# <i>
>         #Option     "RingSize"           	# <i>
>         #Option     "BufferSize"         	# <i>
>         #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"   	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "EnablePageFlip"     	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "NoBackBuffer"       	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DMAForXv"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "FBTexPercent"       	# <i>
>         #Option     "DepthBits"          	# <i>
>         #Option     "PCIAPERSize"        	# <i>
>         #Option     "AccelDFS"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "IgnoreEDID"         	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DisplayPriority"    	# [<str>]
>         #Option     "PanelSize"          	# [<str>]
>         #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"   	# <freq>
>         #Option     "ColorTiling"        	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
>         #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal" 	# <i>
>         #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort" 	# <i>
>         #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort" 	# <i>
>         #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort" 	# <i>
>         #Option     "TunerType"          	# <i>
>         #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath" 	# <str>
>         #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType" 	# <str>
>         #Option     "ScalerWidth"        	# <i>
>         #Option     "RenderAccel"        	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "SubPixelOrder"      	# [<str>]
>         #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DynamicClocks"      	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "VGAAccess"          	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ReverseDDC"         	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"       	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "AccelMethod"        	# <str>
>         #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ConnectorTable"     	# <str>
>         #Option     "DefaultConnectorTable" 	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DefaultTMDSPLL"     	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "TVDACLoadDetect"    	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ForceTVOut"         	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "TVStandard"         	# <str>
>         #Option     "IgnoreLidStatus"    	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DefaultTVDACAdj"    	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "Int10"              	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "EXAVSync"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ATOMTVOut"          	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "R4xxATOM"           	# [<bool>]
> 	Identifier  "Card0"
> 	Driver      "radeon"
> 	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
> 	BoardName   "Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series"
> 	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Card0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     1
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     4
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     8
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     15
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     16
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     24
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection

I hate it when things just don't work.

-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."