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Infragilis

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Registered: 2010-10-26

Posts: 25

Radeon driver: KMS problem in ATI X1200

hello, excuse my bad english in advance

when booting the system, this mode is enabled by default, the daemons are loaded, then the mouse pointer appears, I can move, but after about 3 seconds to load KDM, the screen goes completely black for a second, then returns to normal, but frozen, as I show in the picture, sometimes a resolution is so small, you see several rectangles of KDM on the monitor, the system no longer responds, the mouse does not work, try pressing ctrl + alt + f1, ctrl + alt + backspace or ctrl + alt + delete and nothing .... is just off and on again

I tried to dispense with KDM, KDE starting directly, by doing so the system also fails to respond, but now the screen goes staining gradually white, tried to start KDM as a daemon, such as changing the inittab file and same thing happens.

This appears in the file /var/log/errors.log

Oct 18 13:18:10 localhost kernel: ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Oct 18 13:18:10 localhost kernel: ata5: softreset failed (device not ready)
Oct 18 13:18:10 localhost kernel: ata3: softreset failed (device not ready)
Oct 18 13:18:10 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 18 13:18:10 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 18 13:18:10 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 18 13:18:13 localhost NetworkManager[1550]: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_$
Oct 18 13:18:18 localhost kdm_greet[1594]: Cannot load /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory
Oct 18 13:18:18 localhost kernel: [drm:drm_release] *ERROR* Device busy: 1
Oct 18 13:18:18 localhost kdm[1580]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Oct 18 13:18:19 localhost kernel: [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id

This appears in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log (is an excerpt of the file)

[infragilis@myhost ~]$ cat /home/infragilis/xorgmalo | grep WW
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 19.717] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 19.717] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.
[ 19.724] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
[ 19.730] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 21.146] (WW) USB Optical Mouse: ignoring absolute axes.

[infragilis@myhost ~]$ cat /home/infragilis/xorgmalo | grep EE
[ 19.716] Current Operating System: Linux myhost 2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 29 07:17:20 UTC 2010 i686
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 19.720] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 19.724] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

[infragilis@myhost ~]$ cat /home/infragilis/xorgmalo | grep drm
[ 19.730] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 19.730] drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
[ 19.730] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:05.0
[ 19.730] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 19.730] drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
[ 19.730] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 9
[ 19.731] drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:05.0

I'm not using an xorg.conf file, I tried to use a xorg.conf file that generated the distribution chakra that if it worked the KMS, did not work

Here is an image of how the screen is frozen KDM:

Information:

PC: Notebook e-machines e625
Kernel: 2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 29 07:17:20 UTC 2010 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor TF-20 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tarjeta gráfica: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]

Installed packages:

xorg-server 1.9.0-1
libdrm 2.4.21-2
xf86-video-ati 6.13.2-1 (xorg-video-drivers)
libgl 7.8.2-3
ati-dri 7.8.2-3
mesa 7.8.2-3
kdebase-workspace 4.5.2-1 (kde)

This file is the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log: https://pastee.org/yxbf6

Thanks in advance.

Until next time.

Hyugga

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 335

Re: Radeon driver: KMS problem in ATI X1200

Try disabling KMS.  It works for me fixing some problems. I have the same video card.

There is a file called menu.lst in /boot/grub, (for example: sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst) so open it with your favourite text editor (with root access).
In the file there is a part that looks like this:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

In this line:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro

Add the option "nomodeset", it would look like this:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro nomodeset
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro nomodeset
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

With that you disable KSM at boot time.
Good luck!

Last edited by Hyugga (2010-10-26 14:43:04)