[Bug 457182] New: Geode LX graphics not working
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 Summary: Geode LX graphics not working Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: RC 1 Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: SaX2 AssignedTo: sndirsch@novell.com ReportedBy: osl2008@googlemail.com QAContact: sax2-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: Beta-Customer Auto-detected graphics on Geode LX based panel PC tries to use module "amd" but it does not exist -> starts in text mode only. This is in part because the module was renamed "geode" - see http://wiki.x.org/wiki/AMDGeodeDriver However: Starting sax2 with "-r -m 0=geode" fixes graphics but in turn breaks the text consoles which all now show just a white screen. Using module "vesa" works without breaking consoles, but doesn't provide acceleration. Sax log to be attached. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User osl2008@googlemail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c1 --- Comment #1 from richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> 2008-12-08 03:32:01 MST --- Created an attachment (id=258558) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=258558) sax log files -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User osl2008@googlemail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c2 --- Comment #2 from richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> 2008-12-08 07:27:41 MST --- I meant to add - this may have some connection with bug #358344 though that was for 10.3 and is shown as Resolved - Fixed... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 Luc Verhaegen <lverhaegen@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lverhaegen@novell.com AssignedTo|sndirsch@novell.com |lverhaegen@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 Luc Verhaegen <lverhaegen@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #258558|text/x-log |text/plain mime type| | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sndirsch@novell.com AssignedTo|lverhaegen@novell.com |sndirsch@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c6 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |osl2008@googlemail.com --- Comment #6 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-19 06:01:56 MST --- Richard, what would you prefer as default? unaccelerated vesa driver or geode driver with broken Linux console? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User osl2008@googlemail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c7 richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|osl2008@googlemail.com | --- Comment #7 from richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> 2008-12-21 08:40:25 MST --- Well, until the geode driver is fixed there is only one sensible answer: the default must be the (unaccelerated) vesa driver. At present (11.1 RC1, not yet had a chance to try 11.1 final) the default is to install a module that has been renamed & so doesn't exist - resulting in text mode only. Manually configuring "geode" in place of "amd" results in an even more badly broken machine, I assume that this is a bug in the X.org geode driver? The AMD web site has a message the driver being "mainstreamed" and a (broken) link to freedesktop.org where there seems to be a fair bit of activity including the recent release of 2.11.0. I don't know how to tell which version OpenSuSE offers, but the X.Org video drivers pacakage (xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.6) is from July 2008 so won't have this new version. Is testing the latest version as easy as grabbing the source from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode/snapshot/xf86-video... and building it? I've never dived that deep into video drivers... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c8 --- Comment #8 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-21 09:14:10 MST --- Created an attachment (id=261669) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=261669) xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.4.1.i586.rpm RPM which includes latest geode driver 2.11.0. Please test. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |osl2008@googlemail.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User osl2008@googlemail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c9 richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|osl2008@googlemail.com | --- Comment #9 from richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> 2008-12-22 01:45:27 MST --- No different. To test, I installed the provided package using "rpm -Uh xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.4.1.i586.rpm" (no errors, and "rpm -q" confirms), edited /etc/xorg.conf to reinstate driver 'geode' in place of 'vesa' and finally rcxdm restart to reinitialise X. Graphical login re-appeared and I was able to log in, but Alt-F1 gives a mess - a screen that appears almost animated as it fills white, or sometimes in a light colour. Just the same as with xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.6 Finally I tried reverting to vesa and running "sax2 -r -m 0=geode", this had exactly the same result. I will load up 11.1 final before trying anything else... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c10 --- Comment #10 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-22 03:38:41 MST --- Ok. So obviously updating to latest geode driver didn't help. Switching to vesa driver for this chip. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c11 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #11 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-22 04:18:52 MST --- done for SLE11 and STABLE. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User osl2008@googlemail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c12 --- Comment #12 from richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> 2008-12-22 12:45:11 MST --- Thanks. I consider this more of a work-around than a fix but at least this documents the problem for any future users. Can anyone comment re. upstream driver work? Is a fix likely soon / sometime / never? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User dmueller@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c13 Dirk Mueller <dmueller@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | --- Comment #13 from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@novell.com> 2009-01-05 05:17:53 MST --- I've updated to 11.1 meanwhile and I have painting errors during X usage, not in the text console framebuffer. the updated driver works fine as far as I can tell. I think switching to vesa shouldn't be done in general. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c14 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #14 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2009-01-05 05:55:25 MST --- geode 2.11.0 will be on SLE11 RC2/openSUSE 11.2. I think it's ok to make vesa the default as long as the user can still switch to geode with "sax2 -r -m 0=geode". Thanks for tesing, Dirk. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User osl2008@googlemail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c15 --- Comment #15 from richard meek <osl2008@googlemail.com> 2009-01-05 07:37:00 MST --- @Dirk: is this on a Geode LX system? On mine (a panel PC that we're using for an embedded system) 11.1 doesn't provide a working X at all, partly because the driver has the wrong name ("amd" instead of "geode"). @Stefan: I fully agree with this; vesa must be the default on LX systems until / if the X.org geode driver is fixed. At least including geode 2.11.0 for OSL 11.2 etc. will allow a savvy user to implement if they want acceleration and don't have an issue with broken text consoles. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User dmueller@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c16 --- Comment #16 from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@novell.com> 2009-01-05 08:11:19 MST --- yes, it is a geode LX system, pci id 1022:2081 I don't doubt that the amd/geode rename was correct, I just haven't noticed this issue before. I still think switching to vesa is a performance degradation, and the updated driver seems to work fine (here). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457182#c17 --- Comment #17 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2009-01-05 09:08:58 MST ---
I still think switching to vesa is a performance degradation, and the updated driver seems to work fine (here).
For Richard it doesn't. I want to be on the safe side. :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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