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eth0_

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Registered: 2006-07-31

Posts: 14

Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

I'm trying to get XGL and Beryl with Gnome working, I've managed to get fglrx drivers working, but it's so slow I can't work properly so I've switched to the open source radeon drivers (xf86-video-ati) as I've heard they work better, yet for some reason, Xorg doesn't want to start. I get a black screen and my system hangs and I have to end up restarting. I've followed the Arch Beryl howto in the Wiki (and a few other wikis), but I just can't to seem get X to work.

Useful files:
Xorg config
Xorg config [AIGLX]
Xorg log
errors.log
As you can see, my xorg.conf is pretty standard, yet X still doesnt start.

Same with my xorg.conf.old of which I've tried varried options such as disabled AIGLX, disabled Composite extension, using option "MonitorLayout", etc.

I can't see nothing in Xorg.0.log that may help me...

Heres my kernel.log:

Nov 21 00:24:03 eth0 [drm] Module unloaded
Nov 21 00:25:03 eth0 [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
Nov 21 00:25:03 eth0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 17
Nov 21 00:25:03 eth0 [drm] Initialized radeon 1.24.0 20060225 on minor 0
Nov 21 00:26:26 eth0 agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Nov 21 00:26:26 eth0 agpgart: Badness. Don't know which AGP mode to set. [bridge_agpstat:1f00420a vga_agpstat:ff00021b fell back to:- bridge_agpstat:1f004208 vga_agpstat:ff00021b]
Nov 21 00:26:26 eth0 agpgart: Bridge couldn't do AGP x4.
Nov 21 00:26:26 eth0 agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 0x mode
Nov 21 00:26:26 eth0 agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 0x mode
Nov 21 00:26:27 eth0 [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
Nov 21 00:26:27 eth0 [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
Nov 21 00:26:27 eth0 [drm] writeback test failed

Not sure what the "Badness. Don't know which AGP mode to set." or the "Bridge couldn't do AGP x4." means. Google hardly shows anything..

errors.log shows a few DRM errors, not sure what they mean.

Can anyone help me, please? I've been looking around for days, nothing seems to have worked. I've even tried the beyond kernel and compiling my own, yet X still freezes.

I have a nForce2 chipset so I'm loading agpgart nvidia_(something, not on Arch box atm but I got it with hwdetect --show-agp) and radeon - I've tried these in various orders, nothing.

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vredfreak

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Registered: 2004-11-20

Posts: 66

Re: Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

Looks like you're using a Radeon 9800 Pro.

The last time I checked (it's been a little while), the xorg ati drivers only supported 3D for 9200-9600 or so, above that you had to use ATI's proprietary drivers (fglrx) to enable 3D acceleration.

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eth0_

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Registered: 2006-07-31

Posts: 14

Re: Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

According to http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon the R350 chip and 9800 Pro are supported.

Edit: Just re-read what you said, 3D is "not well supported", 2D rendering works at least which should get me an X normal desktop running, right?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

Just FWIW, this isn't a system hang... X just locks up like that. If you can SSH in from another machine, you can kill it. I think Verynice might also be able to handle it, though I've never tried it myself.

NecroRomancist

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Registered: 2005-01-02

Posts: 53

Re: Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

It seems that agpgart could not set an AGP mode for you..try to add it to your xorg.conf under the device section

Option    "AGPMode"        "8"

This is how i have it
Hope it helps

Mefju

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-07-12

Posts: 104

Re: Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

To restart only X server press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. IIRC open-source ati drivers doesn't support 3D in Radeons above 9250.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

When XOrg hangs up, it won't respond to that.

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: Xorg 7.1.1 with OS ATI driver, SYSTEM HANG

To restart only X server press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. IIRC open-source ati drivers doesn't support 3D in Radeons above 9250.

They do for quite some time now but then again, these features are limited to only a small subset of cards that work stable and also not all of GLX's features are in yet. If you don't plan to work with astounding features of blender you could be fine with the free drivers.

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