On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:17 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd > > Version: 1.2.1-2 > > Severity: important > > > > Might warrant higher severity, since it prevents any graphical use of the > > system. > > > > No. Higher severity are for packages breaking the system. Not having X > is far from preventing the system from working :) > > > In fact, my immediate reaction was that the installation had failed; > > console based virtual > > terminals (and switching to them) still work. > > Might be a bug in some installer component. > > > > Why? Your xorg.conf looks good. If there's a bug, it's more likely in > the X driver or server. That was just a guess based on the "No matching Device section" warning. > > > This was a fresh install on new hardware (multi-core 64 bit Xeon; amd64 > > architecture) with > > the released Lenny installer. I did the graphical install, selecting KDE > > under advanced > > options. I don't recall even a chance to customize the video, and I > > haven't touched it. > > > > That's the expected behavior, the Xserver is supposed to configure many > things automatically. > > > Oddly, there are no errors, and only 2 warnings (full logs below): > > (WW) RADEONHD: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) > > found > > > > You can ignore this. > > > (WW) RADEONHD(0): Failed to set up write-combining range > > (0xd0000000,0x10000000) > > > > Shouldn't cause any problem, maybe just some lower performance. > > > The system arrived with Debian Etch installed, and had video then. I > > believe a proprietary > > driver was installed; that will be my next move. Some vanilla vga driver > > is another possibility. > > > > You should try radeonhd 1.2.4 but it's only built for experimental so > far. So I rebuilt for Lenny for at > http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/radeonhd-1.2.4-Xserver1.4/ Thanks. I installed the amd64 non-debug flavor. It seems to behave the same. I noticed a few more things (probably same as before): In vt7 the power light on my monitor flashes and there doesn't appear to be any power to the monitor.
Although nothing is visible, kdm and X are running. That's consistent with the lack of fatal errors. FYI I had also installed fglrx-driver and related packages (no 3D stuff). These caused X to fail and print a backtrace. I removed them and the open source drivers seemed to get control back. I had never installed proprietary drivers at the time of my original bug report. > > If radeonhd fails, you should then try the radeon driver as well. There > 6.9.0 in Lenny which may work on your board. It does! Thank you! (I added Driver "radeon" to xorg.conf.) How do radeonhd and radeon differ? > If it doesn't, you could > try amd64 packages of the very recent radeon 6.11.0 at > http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/ati-6.11.0-Xserver1.4/ > > Brice > -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 r...@biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
