Bug 2087

Summary: [ATI/mach64] ATI video 264VT failure in xwindows
Product: xorg Reporter: residentgenius <residentgenius>
Component: Driver/mach64Assignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: major    
Priority: high CC: erik.andren, fufutos610, libv
Version: 6.7.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description residentgenius 2004-12-15 17:42:07 UTC
My Dell Poweredge 2200 has a ATI Mach64 264VT PCI 1mb video controller built
into the board. This system was  running xwindows KDE fine under Slackware 9.0.
Now that I upgraded to Slackware 10.0 and with it Xorg 6.7.0 the video
controller is no longer supported under xwindows. The console video was perfect.
The first time I tried startx my system spontaneously did a hard reboot. This
never happened again. Most of the times I entered startx the system would start,
and my monitor would reset and go blank. Ctrl+Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace,
Ctrl+Alt+'+', none worked. The only thing I could do is Ctrl+Alt+Delete. It was
as if the system failed to load and returned to the console mode without the
video controller processing it. Under some more general and minimal xorgconfig's
it would fail to load xwindows and the video processor would drop back to the
console. Under every circumstance I would have this error in the logs.

"XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server":0.0" after 0
requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining."

Tried multiple config's but nothing worked. Added a ATI Rage Pro Turbo PCI 4mb
and xwindows is running fine now.
Comment 1 Luc Verhaegen 2006-04-17 22:12:30 UTC
Please get me at least a log.
Comment 2 Erik Andren 2006-06-01 07:50:55 UTC
Ping!
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:24:49 UTC
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 4 George - 2007-03-05 13:26:33 UTC
Closing due to lack of activity, reopen if it persists.

Possibly a duplicate of bug #6332 which is more comprehensive.

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