ATI M7 + XFree86

Amoeba · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:54 pm Post subject: ATI M7 + XFree86

Ive looked around and seen no solution to my problem, maybe someone here knows. I have a laptop with a M7 and whenever i run X using the ati or radeon driver, the screen is hideous. Vesa works fine and if i were to take a screenshot, it looks fine! I think it might be my screen/video/driver not working together. I have a XGA screen and have updated my modules from dri.sf.net

any help would be fantastic! vesa is slow
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jaanv · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 12

Not a Presario 2800 by any chance?

Amoeba · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 9:04 pm Post subject: hmm

Actually yeah it is a 2800......
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slikdigit · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 73 Location: US

I have an M7 and it works fine... perhaps you don't have a 32 bit depth screen in your XF86Config? I didn't initially (topped at 24 from XF86cfg) and the screen dropped to 8 bit color=hideous. I updated the file and now its fine.
Just a thought.
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jaanv · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 12

Guess this won't be any consolation - but you are not alone having problems getting Presario 2800 to work with the radeon drivers. Vesa driver works ok though.
Sadly not even xf-4.2.1 solved the striping problem (I surmise that's your problem too).
Strange thing is the radeon driver gives a perfect screen if I plug in an external TFT - I guess this suggests it's a matter of finding a correct modeline (and disabling EDID/DDC)

Amoeba · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 8:04 am Post subject: Yeah..

When i took a screenshot of it, it was perfectly crisp! but what i saw was incredibly distorted! http://amoeba.hf-z.com/morepics/screenshot.jpg

as you can see the driver produces a nice image, but the screen is messing it up!
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cde · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2002 Posts: 1

I have an Asus laptop w. a M7, and have been trying to get tvout. Anyone has any success with that? I tried installing ATI-4.2.0-15.i386.tar.gz and drm-kernel-1.2.0-15.tar.gz from gatos, but /var/log/XFree86.0.log still says

(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xd08b5000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xd08b5000 to 0x40016000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf0000000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch.
[dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.2.x is needed.
[dri] see http://gatos.sf.net/ for an updated module
[dri] Disabling DRI.
(EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel

Otherwise, X works briliantly... speek up if you want to see my XF86Config file...

frankenstein · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 12:13 pm Post subject:

Hi,
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch.
for working DRI copy the radeon.o from the drm-kernel to
/lib/modules/*version*/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o
and you must enable /dev/agpgart and Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)
and ! ATI Radeon as a module !

Frank