Bug 9934

Summary: xserver 1.2.0 fails to start on a Radeon X300
Product: xorg Reporter: Brice Goglin <brice.goglin>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Description Flags
Xorg.0.log of failing to start xserver 1.2.0
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xorg.conf (but xserver 1.2.0 also fails to start without any config file) none

Description Brice Goglin 2007-02-09 16:56:43 UTC
Hi,

I am testing the new xserver 1.2.0 package that will enter Debian
experimental soon. It works fine on i945 (even without any config file,
great job :)). But, I can't get X to start on a Radeon X300 box. Both
machines work fine with xserver 1.1.1 (Debian Testing). I am using the
ATI driver 6.6.3. Kernel is 2.6.20 but 2.6.18 does not change anything.

What happens is that the X server does not start at all. The screen
remains black and the server fails to start. I will attach the corresponding Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf below.
I tried disabling DRI, it still fails. Fortunately, the vesa driver works.

With the ATI driver, I got a "mtrr : no MTRR for c00000000,40000000
found" in dmesg. Looking at /proc/mtrr before and after start X, I see:
    reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
    reg01: base=0x1ff00000 ( 511MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
After starting xserver 1.1.1, I get an additional line that I don't
get with 1.2 (maybe because it fails before touching the mtrr):
    reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1
I can't be sure it is actually related to the bug.

The machine is a Thinkpad T43 with 512MB of RAM. The video card is:
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M22
    [Radeon Mobility M300] [1002:5460]

I also tried without any xorg.conf, it fails at the same point.

Any idea?

Thanks,
Brice Goglin
Comment 1 Brice Goglin 2007-02-09 16:57:18 UTC
Created attachment 8652 [details]
Xorg.0.log of failing to start xserver 1.2.0
Comment 2 Brice Goglin 2007-02-09 16:58:06 UTC
Created attachment 8653 [details]
xorg.conf (but xserver 1.2.0 also fails to start without any config file)
Comment 3 Dave Airlie 2007-02-09 17:06:06 UTC
The log you attached fails at the int10 initialisation, I've no idea why this might happen on 1.2.0, is that all the log prints?
Comment 4 Brice Goglin 2007-02-09 18:15:44 UTC
The bug disappears once a Debian int10 patch is removed. Closing then. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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