[Openchrome-users] X Server Broken?!?

[Xavier Bachelot]

userforum at openchrome.org wrote:
> X Server Broken?!?
> Happy Thanksgiving!
> 
> Hey guys, i need some help please. I been having so much trouble the unichrome drivers setup properly.  I did an update to install the unichrome drivers and it broke my X!  When it boots to X, my monitor does not get a signal.  I am a new user to linux so please bear with me.
> 
> Here is my setup:
> 
> Epia Via Board - M10000
> Distro - Fedora Core 3
> Kernel version: 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3
> ###########################################################
> After installing FC3 - I did a yum update w/ repo pointing to http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/.
> 

Check that the hsync and vrefresh are correct in the monitor section of 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. they seem a bit low to me.

> (II) VIA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.00-60.00 kHz
> (II) VIA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-75.00 Hz
> (II) VIA(0): Clock range:  20.00 to 230.00 MHz
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 7
> drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "via" driver
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] created "via" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xdeaeb000
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xdeaeb000 to 0xb5f71000
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xd8000000
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) VIA(0): [dri] visual configs initialized.
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] register handle = 0xdc000000
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] mmio Registers = 0xdc000000
> (II) VIA(0): [dri] mmio mapped.
...snip...

> Here are the modules i have loaded:
> 
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> via                    50400  1
> drm                    77848  2 via
...snip...
Make sure via and drm modules are loaded _before_ the xserver starts 
(eg. by inserting them from your rc.local). This is not the reason why 
you don't have a picture on your screen, but this will prevent hardware 
accel from running and will cause bad 3D performances, once your main pb 
is fixed

> I also compiled the DRI modules from CVS from dri.freedesktop.org before i did this update.  
> 
Not needed as long as you are installing the kernel-module-via-drm 
matching your running kernel (kernel-module-via-drm-`uname -r`) from the 
epia repo on washington.kelkoo.net. btw, you'd better switch to latest 
kernel update (2.6.12-1.1381_FC3), I'm not updating the drm module for 
old kernels.

Regards,

Xavier