[SOLVED] X and Sony Vaio with ATI HD5600 not working

zainin · 2010-10-23 12:47:27

I think Arch doesn't like my ATI card. When I've installed Arch and xf86-video-ati everything was fine. Then I tried to install catalyst-test drivers from AUR and since then startx doesn't work.

Installation went fine, I've set up everything according to Arch Wiki and rebooted. X was trying to start, but everything I was getting was black screen and X error:

fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI :0@1:0:1) found

I was trying "aticonfig --initial", "X -configure", reinstalling drivers, even editing xorg.conf manually... Nothing helps. I gave up. I thought: "drivers from Arch repo wasn't that bad, at least they work" and installed them again (I've removed catalyst first).
And, what a surprise, it doesn't work! When I'm trying to start X with xorg.conf from "X -configure", manually edited xorg.conf or without it the only thing I get is strange white screen with some kind of artifacts. I can't do anything but hard reboot, because system is not responding to anything.

I'm running Arch with 2.6-35-ARCH kernel and xorg-server 1.9.0-1
My notebook is Sony Vaio EB2S1E/BQ with ATI Mobility Radeon HD5600.
I guess it might have something to do with fact that my notebook is from Sony: on Windows official drivers from ATI don't work and I must install drivers downloaded from Sony site. That's what they say:

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:
(...)
- Sony® VAIO® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for
driver support for these notebooks)

I hope I'll run my X again someday with your help. I just don't know what else could I do.

EDIT
I've tried catalyst-generator 10.10-1 from AUR. Doesn't work either.

Last edited by zainin (2010-10-26 16:51:22)

Mr.Elendig · 2010-10-24 01:25:00

If catalyst does not support the card, then there is nothing much you can do about it, except that it will be supported at some point in the future.

Anyway: Did you reinstall libgl, and enabled kms again?

And what does the xorg log and dmesg say?

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-10-24 01:27:27)

zainin · 2010-10-24 12:13:21

Yes, I did.
There's one problem with xorg: when I get this "white screen" xorg log is empty after reboot...

I tried to start X with enabled as well as disabled KMS (I was following instructions from Arch Wiki) - it changes nothing. I still get white screen.

By dmesg I guess you mean "dmesg | grep radeon", am I right?
Here's output with KMS enabled:

Command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro radeon.modeset=1
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro radeon.modeset=1
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
radeon 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 1024M 0x00000000 - 0x3FFFFFFF (1024M used)
radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x40000000 - 0x5FFFFFFF
[drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
radeon 0000:01:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon: using MSI.
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[drm] radeon: power management initialized
fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.5.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

And KMS disabled:

Command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro radeon.modeset=0 vga=0x3F0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro radeon.modeset=0 vga=0x3F0
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

Adding "pci=nomsi" doesn't work.

EDIT

Well, looks like Fluxbox doesn't like starting programs with xinit.
If anyone else gets this problem do this: run only Fluxbox with xinit and leave autostart to Fluxbox "init" file. It works (for now).

Last edited by zainin (2010-10-26 16:55:06)

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#1 2010-10-23 12:47:27

[SOLVED] X and Sony Vaio with ATI HD5600 not working

#2 2010-10-24 01:25:00

Re: [SOLVED] X and Sony Vaio with ATI HD5600 not working

#3 2010-10-24 12:13:21

Re: [SOLVED] X and Sony Vaio with ATI HD5600 not working

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