[Possibly solved, WIP] Need help with fglrx and ATI X1550 (RV505)...

dav7 · 2008-06-10 01:17:59

Ugh. This ATI X1550 (RV505)-based card has given me nothing but trouble in the past: if it isn't segfaulting usermode apps, it's crashing X, making my eyes bleed, or similar ilk. However, in my latest "let me give that card another go" (I frequently try it, discover that I absolutely cannot make it "go", then switch back to my integrated graphics)... I discovered /etc/ati/amdpcsdb (and /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default) and I think I finally convinced it to run my display at 1400x1050 at 84Hz, not 83Hz, so at least my [very picky] eyes don't feel like they're bleeding dry anymore.

So, in the middle of all that I try out Compiz Fusion again. Compiz Fusion has never, ever worked on this card properly; its latest game is to not redraw the background (and wallpaper etc), which is what it did last time I tried to make Compiz work. Now, after poking about in xorg.conf, I've done... *something* to X, and now everything that wants acceleration segfaults. At least I was able to enjoy a game before I poked xorg.conf the wrong way.

At least this card runs my screen at a waywayway more... something setting, resulting in MUCH crisper display of text.

Also, I now don't have to worry about my integrated Intel... sorry excuse for a chipset continually asploding when I change resolutions now, which was part of my motivation to try and make this card "go" again. 82845G FTL!

Here's my xorg.conf, if you can make sense of it and tell me what I might do to stop everything relating to this card from segfaulting - running amdcccle, compiz, fglrxinfo, glxgears, fgl_glxgears, etc etc ad nauseum all currently produce "Segmentation fault".

I also think that video isn't being accelerated at all, because moving windows - even slowly - uses 100% CPU. Scrolling slowly in Firefox doesn't though...

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "AIGLX" "True"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/monospace"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts-2"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/windows-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/advent"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/FON"
EndSection

Section "Module"

#    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "freetype"
#    Load  "type1"
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"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "IBM"
    ModelName    "IBM C190 CRT"
    DisplaySize  370    277
    HorizSync    30.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
    ModeLine     "1400x1050@84.0Hz" 177.0 1400 1504 1656 1912 1050 1051 1054 1102 -hsync +vsync
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#    Option        "DRI"            "True"
#    Option        "AccelMethod"        "XAA"
#    Option        "NoDDC"            "True"
#    Driver        "intel"
#    BusID        "PCI:0:2:0"
#    Option        "VideoOverlay" "off"
#    Option        "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
#    Option        "Textured2D" "on"
#    Option        "TexturedXrender" "off"
#    Option        "UseFastTLS" "1"
#    Option        "BackingStore" "on"
#    Option        "DRI" "true"
#    Option        "TVOverscan" "on"
#    Option        "DesktopSetup" "single"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device"
    Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "True"
#    Option        "TexturedVideo" "on"
    Option        "UseFastTLS" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
        Modes    "1400x1050_84.0Hz"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
        Modes    "1400x1050_84.0Hz"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"

#        Modes        "1400x1050_84.0Hz"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"

#        Modes        "1400x1050_84.0Hz"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"

#        Modes        "1400x1050_84.0Hz"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"

#        Modes        "1400x1050_84.0Hz"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "RENDER" "Enable"
    Option        "DAMAGE" "Enable"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by dav7 (2008-06-11 00:47:15)

B15HOP · 2008-06-10 03:19:51

Yeah my x1600 doesn't work with fglrx anymore either. The radeonhd works though. But slow..

dav7 · 2008-06-10 06:17:55

How do I at least get basic acceleration then?

Last edited by dav7 (2008-06-10 06:18:15)

dav7 · 2008-06-10 12:08:05

*bump*

No acceleration is just impossible. It's throwing all graphics operations at the CPU. I need help! Please!

I can't go back to integrated video...

Last edited by dav7 (2008-06-10 12:08:49)

wirechief · 2008-06-10 12:19:40

Have you tried the www.phoronix.com forum ? they specialize in ATI graphics card problems and John Bridgman usually looks at users posts so you have a good chance and a solution.

Last edited by wirechief (2008-06-10 12:20:20)

dav7 · 2008-06-10 23:28:38

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=35011

Now I wait in anticipation.

Who is John Bridgman btw?

dav7 · 2008-06-11 00:46:17

Well, he responded:

bridgman wrote:

Might be a good time to give radeon a try; if you feel up to building mesa, drm, radeon and xserver from git the result is a pretty complete open driver (2d, 3d, textured video etc..). It only became complete in the last couple of weeks, which is why you need to build so much from git...

I'm heading off to do that now, and while I've no idea if it'll work, I recommend everyone else do the same.

Last edited by dav7 (2008-06-11 00:46:52)

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[Possibly solved, WIP] Need help with fglrx and ATI X1550 (RV505)...

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