Hi Damien, Have you resolved your issue??? I am also getting the similar issue with icop PDX089T device.
Could you please help me out to resolve this if you solved this ?? Damien Borie wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > This is my first message in this list, so forgive me if I'm not quite > clear. > > First, the situation. > We work on a panel PC, the Icop PDX-089T, which contains a graphic > chipset XGI Volari Z9S, a screen of size 8'9, a touch screen, and some > other things. > We have installed a Linux distribution, a customized one created with > Buildroot. The aim is to execute three applications, and one of them is > a graphic application (made with QT). So we need a nice displaying, with > mode 1024x600x16. > > Before that, we used a PDX-057T, which is exactly the same device but > with a smaller screen (5'7). We used Framebuffer with Vesa driver and > succeed to obtain the good resolution (640x480x16). > But the same Linux distribution on the PDX-089T doesn't offer a good > resolution. The best is 800x600x8, and there is no mode with depth 16. > We have concluded that there is a memory limit in Framebuffer which not > allow depth of 16 with the same chip on a larger screen. > > So we had to active Xorg in our distribution. After some epic battles, > we succeeded in creating a new distribution with Buildroot with Xorg and > the drivers XGI and SiS installed. Then we tried to set up and launch a > X server, but for now without success. > > The first try was with Xorg 1.5.3, XGI drivers 1.5.0, SiS drivers > 0.10.0, which were all include in Buildroot last release (2010.02). > The issues : > *Framebuffer + Vesa* : Max resolution : 800x600x8. No depth 16 > *Xorg + XGI* : No apparent error, but black screen. Interrupt doesn't > return to the console. > *Xorg + SiS* : No apparent error, but black screen. Interrupt allow to > return to the console. > *Xorg + XGIZ* : We try to install several version on the XGIZ driver, > which is provided by XGI (and some other providers like Icop). No one > seems to correspond to Xorg version 1.5.3, and no one works. > > After some search, we decided to try with the last snapshot of > Buildroot, as a lot of X update have been made. > Second try : Xorg 1.7.1, XGI driver 1.5.1, SiS driver 0.10.2, included > in the snapshot, and XGIZ driver 2.70.1201 provided by Icop support > service. > *Framebuffer + Vesa *: Max resolution : 800x600x8. No depth 16 > *Framebuffer + sisfb *: No display, black screen. Option problems? We > didn't search any further... > *Xorg + XGI* : Load module failed with this error : > "LoadModule: Module xgi does not have a xgiModuleData data object." > I don't know where this error comes from. > *Xorg + SiS* : No apparent error, but black screen. Interrupt allow to > return on the console. > *Xorg + XGIZ* : Load module failed with this error : > "dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/xgiz_drv.so: undefined symbol: > resVgaMemShared" > > We are searching for long days now, for no result. All these drivers > should works and be compatible with the chip. But, as we're not at all > specialist of Xorg, we must have missed something. > > What I search here is : > - any suggestion about the errors when loading module for XGI and XGIZ > drivers. > - any idea about why SiS driver doesn't seems to fail but do not display > anything > - any others suggestion from anybody who has already use this chip and > encounters some problems. > - any explanation about the apparent Framebuffer limit, as the provider > confirm that 1024x600 resolution should be supported. > - any suggestion about the options to set in xorg.conf, as I tried many > things but with no results, and without understand everything. > I have all the Xorg.0.log files saved if it's needed. > > I'll try to debug the source code of the driver, but I don't know if I > could find something. So before I post here, in the hope to obtain some > informations by people more specialized. > Sorry for the very long message, and thank you for your time. > > Best regards. > > -- > Damien Borie > > TERAWATT / AENERGIA S.A.S. > ZA DUBOSCOA > 64990 Villefranque > FRANCE > > tel : +33 (0)5 59 44 26 08 > fax : +33 (0)5 59 31 15 11 > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Xorg---Buildroot-distribution---chip-XGI-Volari-z9s-tp28030267p33929590.html Sent from the Free Desktop - xorg mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
