I have a radeonhd card: mpower@dodtsair:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GT] (rev a1)
Works great, but I decided to rebuild a gaming machine and since I was happy with the ATI in linux and I was not using the nVidia card I decided I would use it for my gaming box until the new nvidia cards came out.
So I shutdown the computer removed the card and to my dismay instead of a ubuntu login screen I get a whitescreen. I am not sure what happened I played with it a bit.
The only error I could find anywhere was when running startx from the command prompt. It displayed a white screen and then continuely output something like Protocol not specified. Attached are two logs Xorg.0.log which is the log of the xserver that I am currently running in. You'll see that it has two video cards. The Xorg.0.log.old file is the xserver that failed to start. I diffed them using meld and despite the huge lack of EDID querying and resolution stuff at the end I see no problem. It seems like the xserver decided to stop half way through start up and display a white screen.
I have no clue why.
This is an onboard ATI card. I have heard something about needing to specify the BusID in the config due to some bug somewhere. I am going to fire this email off and then add
BusID "PCI:1:5:0" if that does not work I'll try BusID "PCI:0:1:5"
Hopefully that will work if not... I could use some help :)
Mike Power
BusID "PCI:1:5:0" seems to be the correct bus id, however it reproduces the same problem. BusId "PCI:0:5:0" and "PCI:0:1:5" results in X erroring out with no devices found. The resulting OS is corrupted and I was not able to get the text prompt to reconfigure it. The text display was corrupted beyond recollection. I was able to ssh into the box and reconfigure it. Even after that a simple restart of gdm did not resurrect the display. I had to reboot the box to fix the display Changing the priority of the bios from internal graphics card to pcie card did not help the driver use the onboard chipset. At this point in time I am able to use the onboard chipset by simply removing the Driver "radeonhd" line. Obviously not what I desired, as that means I am probably using the ATI closed source driver. But given the options between white screen and text display I'll just have to take it. The fact that radeonhd fails and the ati driver works suggests to me that there is a driver problem or perhaps a conflict with that driver. I have taken this problem as far as I can, if anyone has anything else to suggest I'll try it out otherwise I'll have to stick with the closed source driver. Thanks All. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org