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tld
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 Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 with Rage Mobility? [SOLVED] |
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I have an IBM thinkpad with this video chipset:
| Code: | | 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) |
With the following xorg.conf for the device:
| Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x"
ChipSet "ati"
ChipId 0x4c4d
ChipRev 0x64
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
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This worked fine with x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3. After the upgrade to x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1, startx fails with the following:
| Code: | X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux genthink 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 14 09:33:36 EDT 2008 i686
Build Date: 29 June 2008
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Sep 15 10:44:22 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(WW) MACH64: Chipset "ati" in Device section "Card0" isn't valid for this driver
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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I haven't found any bugs or other posts here about anything similar. Anyone else heard of any issues like this?
I was able to get going by downgrading back to 6.6.3.
Tom
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szczerb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Shouldn't the chip id and chip rev values be in quotes?
Also did you do a 'Xorg -configure' with the new driver? |
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Sadako
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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The r128 and mach64 drivers were split out into separate packages, although I thought this had only happened starting with xf86-video-ati 6.9...
Anyways, xf86-video-mach64 is probably what you want now.
Considering how what the xf86-video-ati package contains is just called "radeon" upstream, it would probably make more sense if they renamed all the xf86-video-ati ebuilds after the split to xf86-video-radeon, and made xf86-video-ati a meta-package which pulled in the correct driver depending on your VIDEO_CARDS setting...
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tld
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Yup...the xf86-video-mach64 was what I needed.
I had to unmerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati because any version of it less than 6.9 blocks x11-drivers/xf86-video-mach64. However, oddly enough the only available version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mach64 is 6.8, and it was masked by ~x86. That restructuring is really confusing. It also seems odd that an upgrade to a stable xf86-video-ati forces me to either mask it's stable version or unmask xf86-video-mach64....but in any case it seems to be working.
Also, I had to comment out the ChipSet, ChipId, and ChipRev assignments in my xorg.conf and change the Driver assignement to mach64:
| Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "mach64"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x"
# ChipSet "ati"
# ChipId 0x4c4d
# ChipRev 0x64
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
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It especially didn't like the ChipSet no matter what was there. I found that out by running an Xorg -configure to see what it would come up with and it had none of those entries for the device.
Thanks!
Tom |
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