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  • Rv670 + fglrx == fail fail fail

    Hey Phoronix,
    Yea im the new hi all

    I have very very similar problems like many have in a few related threads, trying to get fglrx up and running with hw accel.

    Never got it working, all time "booting into black screen",
    X -configure with fglrx enabled really fails and give me a backtrack ( i havent noted but i can reproduce it if someone needs it)

    Got the famous sb600 Mainboard and following stuff

    SB600 ALiveXFire eSATA2
    AMD64 X2 6000+
    4GB RAM (mem=2048 wont help)
    ATI Technologies Inc RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850] CardExpert Technology Device 0401

    full lspci output:
    http://rafb.net/p/aa0m2o50.html

    The really funny and blaming part is really all components are from AMD / ATI AND THEY DONT EVEN GET WORKING DRIVERS FOR OUR WOUNDERFULl OPENSOURCE COMMUNITY ?!?! WTF (sorry capslock)

    No , really....I have spend my whole life to get it working, stuck 2-3 Month with that, i had NO success to get it proberly working w/ full hw accel.

    @ kizo
    he described this issue in his thread
    see this ahci 0000:00:12.0: controller can't do 64bit DMA, forcing 32bit
    your right, We definitely have some DMA issues but i think they are not the reason...
    I tried another board with that system too, dont remember the SB but it was a nforce board. It produced the same issues


    I tried Debian with many different kernel versions and Xorg configurations - No succes.

    Then i read here ati does test drivers more on ubuntu etc so i gave it a try.
    Ubuntu says at booting something about memory hole IOMMU stuff but i dont have option to disable that.

    Anyway same issus booting into black
    same X -configure fail w/ fglrx and backtrack

    i dont get it... i have absolutely no clue where to go further...
    Hope someone can get a little light into this one

    Im glad if i can help or test a little if someone has an idea about that - ill try it out

    im attching a few logs maybe theyr helpfull...
    That was on Ubuntu 8.10 w/ config described above

    xorg.log after "booting into blackscreen" http://rafb.net/p/XWnQPc81.html
    dmesg http://rafb.net/p/iJLukz53.html


    so far
    luna

    keep the moon shining
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