0x9515:0x174B:0x0028:Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Hello, I'm following the advices contained in my Xorg log file and contacting this e-mail. I'm using an AGP version from Sapphire of the Radeon HD 3850. (It uses the same kind of AGP-PCIe bridge as most other Radeon X & HD cards). I'm running the latest milestone of openSUSE 11.2, with RadeonHD driver from the SuSE Factory repository on download.opensuse.org/repositories. I've mainly encountered 2 major problems with this card : 1. Freeze & Lock ---------------- The driver doesn't like too much switching between the console screen and the graphic mode. On switching back to X, the display freezes on a black screen, and the keyboard is unresponsive (no capslock light blinking, no CTRL-ALT-F1 switching back to console, etc.) The rest of the system is still responsive, over SSH for exemple. But can't be shut down (/sbin/halt) : the Xorg process is unkillable. Usually, I have to finish the un-completed halt sequence with SysRq magic keys. 2. No Acceleration ------------------ EXA acceleration fails epically. Absolutely nothing is visible on the screen except the mouse pointer. The lack of acceleration might be explained by the absence of a R600-DRI driver. (EXA is said to require DRI drivers for recent cards). But I would have expected the acceleration to fall back to some compatible system (like shadowfb software acceleration) as not everyone has an installed DRI driver on the system. Thank you very much. I hope that I'll be able to help you. - DrYak - -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
2009/10/6 DrYak
I'm following the advices contained in my Xorg log file and contacting this e-mail.
Please provide the full Xorg log.
I'm using an AGP version from Sapphire of the Radeon HD 3850. (It uses the same kind of AGP-PCIe bridge as most other Radeon X & HD cards) ...
EXA acceleration fails epically. Absolutely nothing is visible on the screen except the mouse pointer. The lack of acceleration might be explained by the absence of a R600-DRI driver.
EXA requires kernel's DRM support, but not Mesa's DRI drivers; it should work if you are running 2.6.30. -- Yang Zhao http://yangman.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:51 PM, DrYak
Hello,
I'm following the advices contained in my Xorg log file and contacting this e-mail.
I'm using an AGP version from Sapphire of the Radeon HD 3850. (It uses the same kind of AGP-PCIe bridge as most other Radeon X & HD cards). I'm running the latest milestone of openSUSE 11.2, with RadeonHD driver from the SuSE Factory repository on download.opensuse.org/repositories.
I've mainly encountered 2 major problems with this card :
1. Freeze & Lock ---------------- The driver doesn't like too much switching between the console screen and the graphic mode. On switching back to X, the display freezes on a black screen, and the keyboard is unresponsive (no capslock light blinking, no CTRL-ALT-F1 switching back to console, etc.) The rest of the system is still responsive, over SSH for exemple. But can't be shut down (/sbin/halt) : the Xorg process is unkillable. Usually, I have to finish the un-completed halt sequence with SysRq magic keys.
2. No Acceleration ------------------ EXA acceleration fails epically. Absolutely nothing is visible on the screen except the mouse pointer. The lack of acceleration might be explained by the absence of a R600-DRI driver. (EXA is said to require DRI drivers for recent cards). But I would have expected the acceleration to fall back to some compatible system (like shadowfb software acceleration) as not everyone has an installed DRI driver on the system.
AGP is always problematic. Your best bet is to play with the AGP options in your bios and see if any of them help. r6xx/r7xx EXA requires the drm in the kernel, not the Mesa DRI drivers. You'll need kernel 2.6.30 or newer for that. If it still doesn't work, you might try the radeon driver and set the bustype to PCIE to use the internal gart mechanism rather than AGP (radeonhd doesn't have this option): Option "BusType" "PCIE" in the device section of your config. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
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Alex Deucher
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DrYak
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Yang Zhao