[HD3650] radeonhd ver. 1.2.5 no X, whole bunch of new error messages in Xorg.0.log

[kwandtum]

Good morning everyone,

I installed xf86-video-radeonhd ver. 1.2.5 via git on my Toshiba Satellite A350-12D/Ubuntu 9.04, because fglrx did not work for me, but starting the machine with Driver "radeonhd" does not work either. All I get is a bash promt and a whole bunch of new error messages in Xorg.0.log.

lspci says:

lspci | grep ATI ->
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]

Why is the videocard also an audiodevice?

Anyway, here is a best of from the error messages:

(EE) RADEONHD(0): rhdAtomLvdsDDC: unknown record type: b8            
(EE) RADEONHD(0): D1CRTCDisable: Failed to Unsync CRTC 1             
(EE) RADEONHD(0): rhdAllIdle: unable to stop CRTC: cannot idle MC 
 
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

 ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

And the whole Xorg.0.log is in the pastebin.

I hope, someone can help me out.

Yours, kw

[bridgman]

Looking at the log now... whoa, that blew up real good. Don't think I have seen that failure before. Suggest you join the radeonhd mailing list and post a link to your log there.

http://en.opensuse.org/Mailing_Lists

The 6xx-and-higher GPUs include an HD Audio controller so that you can get audio and video combined on a single HDMI output connector. That way you don't have to externally patch an audio signal from your mobo or sound card back into the video card.

EDIT - this is the same system where the radeon driver blew up thinking you had 4GB of video ram, isn't it ? If so, pls mention that in the mailing list post.

Thanks,
John

[kwandtum]

Did that, thanks for the suggestion.

[agd5f]

I think this is an issue with how the bios sets up mtrrs with 4 GB of ram installed. try removing 2 GB and I bet it will work.

[kwandtum]

You are right, it works, but, for obvious reasons, I don't like that solution...

Xorg.0.log for that case can be found here.

Chris

[nanonyme]

I think this is an issue with how the bios sets up mtrrs with 4 GB of ram installed. try removing 2 GB and I bet it will work.

Hmm, would you say this is a BIOS bug and if so, what do you think a workaround should be? Can the kernel work around faulty BIOS MTRR information and setup something more useful? God, I'm so full of questions today...

[bridgman]

There is some additional discussion on the radeonhd mailing list. Apparently there is a kernel boot option to clean up the MTRR values.

http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/2.../msg00070.html