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Screen garbled after X restarted
by Mark Lake 18 May '04

18 May '04

I have a perfectly functioning X-server, until I restart it, when the screen becomes garbled. The only cure for this is to reboot. This problem arrived with SuSE 9.0 - never had any problem with SuSE 8.2. Has anyone had a similar problem and been able to fix it? Details are: Card GeForce4 420 Go XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 with latest patches from SuSE online upgrade Driver nvidia from SuSE online upgrade (but same problem with nv) XF86Config is setup to give me a 1024x768 res. screen by default. This works fine in every respect when the server is started for the first time after boot, either from xdm or startx. However, if the server is subsequently restarted, either by a user logging out under xdm, or explicitly killing the server and then restarting using startx, then the screen is garbled (looks `stripy' as if the modeline is wrong). I normally only have one 1024x768 and one 800x600 modeline in my XF86Config. If XF86Config is altered to give 800x600 res. by default, then the garbled screen no longer occurs. I can restart X as often as I like a get an 800x600 screen, BUT, I then have the problem reported earlier this month of a working mouse that has no visible pointer. Any thoughts gratefully received. Mark -- Dr Mark Lake Institute of Archaeology University College London 31-34 Gordon Square London, WC1H 0PY Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 7495 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7383 2572 http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnmar/index.html

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VIA KM440 XVideo extension problem
by Julius Chrobak 18 May '04

18 May '04

Hi all, I have Acer Aspire 1350. And I am not able to use XVideo for my graphic card (VIA KM 440). Do anyone have any experiences? Please, I want to watch video in fullscreen :) Julo Chrobak http://f91.hiro.sk

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Installed the new X.org patches, but....
by John Heffington 17 May '04

17 May '04

I don't know how to configure them for my 9800XT. Installtion went great w/o any errors. Anybody else have any luck yet??? Ciao!

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Re: [suse-xfree86] Problem 9.1 ATI 9000 (rv250) driver Kde 3.2.2
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 17 May '04

17 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael G. Henders wrote: | I can't comment about the fglrx thing, because I don't use it (or at | least I don't think I do). But I *am* running a Radeon 9000, and | getting 2451 FPS out of "gears". This is under SuSE (Pro) 8.2 on a P4 | at 3.06 GHz, just for reference. My recollection is a bit fuzzy, but I | do remember having some trouble with my initial setup, and I remember | trying the ATI drivers, without any success. My current setup uses just | the XFree86 "radeon" driver; YaST thinks I've got an rv250lf, just like | your system. I can't remember if that was auto-detected or not, sorry. | Regardless, I'm pretty sure that I had to get the 3D thing done in two | steps -- first, get the card properly identified, then reboot, re-enter | YaST, and select the checkbox to enable 3D support. XF86Config file | attached, for reference -- hope this helps! | | Mike Henders Well I got the mouse/touchpad working. I think the problem now is that Itried to install the ati drivers, and I havem't figured out how to completly remove them from the system. When I run rpm -e, XF86 is still looking for the XF86Config-4 and not the config w/o the -4. So no matter what I enter in sax/yast doesn't get seen. Thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAqF60lC+PSm9+eB0RAtFbAJ977JFB1q7ipsy28NT1V0i8yGmZggCdFYzk +aPqr7/8/1k+OZAPTNVwZuE= =76dz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ATI Radeon 9200SE 3D (DRI) wird nicht aktiviert.
by harald 16 May '04

16 May '04

Hallo, habe oben genannte ATI AGP Grafikkarte die ich mit Suse 9.1 mit 3D laufen lassen möchte. Die Karte hat nach einigen Startschwierigkeiten mit Suse 9.0 funktioniert und brachte auf meinem AMD 2200+ Sytem mit Elitegroup Board (SIS Chipset) ca. 1400-1500 fps. Nun wird nur noch MESA aktiviert da es ein unbekanntes Problem beim laden des DRI Modules gibt (siehe Xfree.log). Was mache ich falsch? Funktioniert es evtl. mit den von ATI angebotenen Treibern? Konnte Logfile aufgrund der Größe nur als gepacktes File versenden. M.f.G., Harald Grosskopf.

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Re: [SPAM] [suse-xfree86] Problem 9.1 ATI 9000 (rv250) driver Kde 3.2.2
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 16 May '04

16 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 M H Bell wrote: | A word of advice. I tried for months to get a Radeon 9600SE video card to work properly with SuSE 9.0 Pro. I did everything by the book. followed all instructions and downloaded the neccessary files and scripts. I never could get it to work right. I finally wised up and sold the card to a windows user and bought a GE Force FX5200 Nvidea card. used yast (you) for the update and Sax2 to turn on 3D all is well and working fine. | Mel | PS No more ATI Cards for me for Linux.. Problem is this installed in a laptop, so I have no choice!!! A couple of things I have found since last post. If The USB mouse is the listed at the end as the corepointer, the touchpad works but not the touching the pad to simulate a click. If the touchpad is listed first the usb mouse never gets activated. I reloaded the ati driver rpm. It says that a tailored kernel module for fglrx was not found and I have to go to /etc/X11/fglrx/build_modules and do ./make.sh and then make_install,sh: Neither of these works as I get a message about xfree86 drm and says that it works with X4.1.0 or higher and I need a kernel higher then 2.4.8.... I am running 2.6.5-15 When I run fglrxinfo it says that I'm running the mesa drivers.. Any help would be appreciated - -- Adolph & Sharon Weidanz '78 43' Endeavour Ketch S/V Time To Paws -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFApu3clC+PSm9+eB0RAtQUAKCCeccTH4BYqckkqF/Xw4K1CDz41gCYmiLV BgKU5w1o1dw1Vn2Zmz2UFQ== =UPX8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Problem 9.1 ATI 9000 (rv250) driver Kde 3.2.2
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 15 May '04

15 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok now this is really getting to me... I installed the ATI driver and I don't believe there were any errors and ran fglrxconfig. It created the XF86Config-4 file, which it seems to be booting off of. If I understand this correctly, it ignores any setting changes that I make in Yast, or at least it seems to. But when I do a fglrxinfo it says the mesa drivers are being loaded. I posted the first part in the kde sites, and maybe I'm impatient, but after fooling around I think I'm doing something wrong with XF86Config-4 ~ I have a Gateway 600xl with the 17.1" lcd screen (Laptop). When I am in my normal users mode the screed is split off center. If you look at control center->background, in the picture in the upper right corner shows the background with a four way split about 200 pixels x, and 150 pixels y. If I put something over the split (say superkaramba theme) it will be moved the next time I log in. Other then that it doesn't seem to affect anything else. It is just annoying. When i installed suse it said the ati card was a rv250lf. I then installed the ATI drivers and it says that it supposed to be a rv250lg. I configured the ati drivers with fglrxconfig and set everything up there. I ran glxgears and only see 240fps w/ 3d enabled. Also, even thought the touchpad is selected in Yast, as I think the Yast config is being ignored, I copied the secion info for the touchpad and goteen to work, but now I've lost the USB mouse, which I also tried to set up in XF86Config-4. Funny thing is the split doesn't show up in root mode. Any help would be appreciated... I can send any files parts if that would help - -- Adolph & Sharon Weidanz '78 43' Endeavour Ketch S/V Time To Paws -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAptXZlC+PSm9+eB0RAsYdAJ4ynLeSh8bqzm4qizE40y8jnKjAAACfYaE8 w1wHQWXuiigQw7Re4IjfrdE= =UPI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [suse-xfree86] Re: ATI Radeon 9600 driver problem
by Peter-Josef Meisch 14 May '04

14 May '04

Am Freitag, 14. Mai 2004 16:41 schrieben Sie: > > Sounds strange. IMHO this is one chipset specific agp module to > much. You might try to disable PCI hotplug (remove "06" in > COLDPLUG_PCI_CLASSES_WHITELIST in /etc/sysconfig/hotplug) , reboot and > load one of the agp modules manually and see if that helps to run > testgart. Most likely the amd-k7-agp module is the right one. I tried that, after booting in runlevel 3 there were no agp moduls loaded. I modprobe amd_k7_agp but testgart and X failed. What I noticed is an error message in /var/log/messages: May 14 17:02:04 gruyere kernel: agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3188), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1. This comes no matter wether I try sytsem agpgart or fglrx internal agpart. I tried the agp_try_unsupported=1 parameter both with agpgart and fglrx but they compain about not knowing that parameter. BTW, shouldn't we keep these mails on suse-xfree86(a)suse.com? P.J. -- ---------------------------- Peter-Josef Meisch Mail: pjmeisch(a)web.de ----------------------------

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Re: [suse-xfree86] Re: ATI Radeon 9600 driver problem
by Peter-Josef Meisch 14 May '04

14 May '04

Being curious I booted into 64bit. There no agp modules were loaded at all (no agpgart, no via_agp, no amd_k7_agp), but testgart produced the following output: version: 0.100 bridge id: 0x31881106 agp_mode: 0x1f000a0b aper_base: 0xc0000000 aper_size: 256 pg_total: 240640 pg_system: 240640 pg_used: 0 base=00000000c0000000 range=0000000010000000 base=c0000000 entry.key : 0 entry.key : 1 Allocated 8 megs of GART memory start=1377994247, end=1377996514 MemoryBenchmark: 1764 mb/s start=1377996519, end=1377998745 MemoryBenchmark: 1796 mb/s start=1377998748, end=1378001398 MemoryBenchmark: 1509 mb/s Average speed: 1689 mb/s Testing data integrity (1st pass): passed on first pass. Testing data integrity (2nd pass): passed on second pass. But that does not really help me on my 32bit system :-( P.J. -- ---------------------------- Peter-Josef Meisch Mail: pjmeisch(a)web.de ----------------------------

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Re: [suse-xfree86] Re: ATI Radeon 9600 driver problem
by Peter-Josef Meisch 14 May '04

14 May '04

Am Freitag, 14. Mai 2004 14:41 schrieb Stefan Dirsch: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:53:59PM +0200, Peter-Josef Meisch wrote: > > # testgart > > open: No such device > > > > What does this mean? > > This means, that the according agp module and agpgart is not > loaded. Should not happen as PCI hotplug should load the according agp > module automatically. Try to remove the fglrx module, then load the > according agp module in > > /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/char/agp/ > > Then try testgart again and if this works start Xserver again. > I rebooted in runlevel 3. Normally loaded by the system are the following modules: agpgart, amd_k7_agp and via_agp. testgart always fails, no matter what modules I try. My system is a Fu/Sie Scaleo 600 with an AMD64 3200+ XP processor (32bit Suse) and a D1607 mainboard. P.J. -- ---------------------------- Peter-Josef Meisch Mail: pjmeisch(a)web.de ----------------------------

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