Having a bad time w/OSS driver on a new Slackware 13.1 install.
Box is AMD AthlonXP w/1 Gig Ram, SiS963/741 chipset
Card is a new Asus Radeon HD 4650 w/1 Gig video ram on an AGP 8x bus
Monitor does 62khz and is 1440x900
Slackware uses libdrm-2.4.20, mesa-7.8.1, xf86-video-ati-6.13.0, xorg-server-1.7.7 & kernel 2.6.33.4
Problems:
bash-4.1$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
To fix the interrupts, I was told to put "options radeon modeset=1" in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf. When I do that, the monitor switches off! I see the no signal thing and then it powers down (tft monitor, btw). A hard reset is the only way out of this. 3 fingered salutes are ignored.
Also, If I jump to a console, (Ctrl_Alt_Fn) I get there - modeset if fine, but if I come back (Alt_F7) a hard reset is the only way out. I can see the top & bottom bars, but the screen is blank and I'm locked out - keyboard, mouse, nothing.
This thread refers, and you can see what's been tried.
I feel a recompile of git coming on, but I want to be told what, & hopefully why.
Box is AMD AthlonXP w/1 Gig Ram, SiS963/741 chipset
Card is a new Asus Radeon HD 4650 w/1 Gig video ram on an AGP 8x bus
Monitor does 62khz and is 1440x900
Slackware uses libdrm-2.4.20, mesa-7.8.1, xf86-video-ati-6.13.0, xorg-server-1.7.7 & kernel 2.6.33.4
Problems:
bash-4.1$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
To fix the interrupts, I was told to put "options radeon modeset=1" in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf. When I do that, the monitor switches off! I see the no signal thing and then it powers down (tft monitor, btw). A hard reset is the only way out of this. 3 fingered salutes are ignored.
Also, If I jump to a console, (Ctrl_Alt_Fn) I get there - modeset if fine, but if I come back (Alt_F7) a hard reset is the only way out. I can see the top & bottom bars, but the screen is blank and I'm locked out - keyboard, mouse, nothing.
This thread refers, and you can see what's been tried.
I feel a recompile of git coming on, but I want to be told what, & hopefully why.
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