issues with ATI Moblity Radeon HD 5830

[Maróy Ákos]

Michel,

> So that's actually the reverse case from what I thought - the X driver
> has KMS support, but it's not enabled in the kernel. Check dmesg for why
> the DRI (and consequently acceleration) initialization fails, maybe some
> firmware file is missing.

how would I check for that? simply grep-ing for DRI doesn't return anything:

# dmesg | grep DRI
# grep DRI /var/log/messages

> Not sure then why VT switching to console doesn't work though.

can I provide clues somehow?

>> ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
> 
> I still don't see any explanation for or even sign of a crash. I think
> Ubuntu's gdm has some kind of watchdog, maybe that just thinks the X
> server is taking too long to start up and kills it.

yes, IMHO it's looking for (EE) messages in the X log, and if it finds
any, it things X has failed to start..


Akos