Bug 9250

Summary: X starts only with vesa driver after world update
Product: xorg Reporter: Ilias <meteora>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: highest CC: voip
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
URL: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-521619.html
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Ilias 2006-12-04 21:01:58 UTC 
As this is my productive workstation and I had to study a lot I did not make a
world update since about 4 months. Till this last world update everything worked
fine. I could use open or closed source ati drivers for my ati radeon x1300 le
pciexpress. I had just to switch the loaded module in
/etc/modules....bla..kernel-2.6 and the driver in xorg.conf. 

But after this world update only the vesa driver brings my a graphical ui,
though it is very slow. 

Now I downloaded a new gentoo liveimagecd and setup my system from the
beginning. After three days of compiling I ended up in the same situation. Still
only x with vesa driver, although the radeon and fglrx modules are built and
loaded at boot, x refuses to start. 

I opened a thread in the gentooforum and they think it looks like a bug. Should
I open a bug at ATI too, or do you first take a look at it ?

I apologize if not beeing correctly reporting but its my first bug ;-)

Looking forward for a soon fix as I desperately need my x and vesa is so damn
slow...

Is there another alternative for vesa that would be faster ? VGA is worse I was
told...

For any further information please just ask me and i will try to provide
anything needed to solve this as quickly as possible.

Best Regards
Ilias

PS. This PC has a an onboard graphic chip intel i915 which is unused. I did
ignore it, i mean no device in xorg.conf for it as there is no monitor pluged
there. And unfortunately it cannot be deactivated in BIOS. 

Any further informations including xorg.conf and xorg.0.logs can be found in the
following link: 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-521619.html
Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2006-12-04 22:08:53 UTC 
The xorg radeon driver does not support the new avivo based radeons (X1x00). 
They have a completely new display engine that is not compatible with the older
one.  Until ati releases specs, we will not have support.  Your only options are
vesa and fglrx.  You'll have to take up the fglrx issues with ati.
Comment 2 Michel Dänzer 2006-12-05 05:10:54 UTC 
Resolving per Alex's comment.
Comment 3 Michel Dänzer 2006-12-05 05:11:34 UTC 
*** Bug 9234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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