Two Radeon Cards, Dell Dimension, Linux and x.org

[Ricky Rivera]

I am actually having the exact same problem.  I built the radeon driver from
the ati-1-0-branch last night, but that didn't seem to fix the problem.  I'm
currently in the process of building xorg-server and the radeon driver from
the trunk.  We'll see if that fixes anything...

--Ricky

On 3/16/06, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/16/06, Thorsten Becker <thorsten.becker at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Xorg 7.0.0, kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > To create a dual seat system I bought a Readeon 7000 PCI card for my
> Dell
> > Dimension 4550, which has a Radeon 9700 already installed. The Problem
> is: I
> > can only get one card to work at a time. Trying to start an X server on
> the
> > "wrong card" results in locking up the system (it doesn't even write an
> > Xorg.0.log logfile)
> >
> > What I tried so far:
> >
> > BIOS settings: The somewhat crippled BIOS in the dell system only has a
> few
> > settings that could be relevant: "Primary Video Controller" is one of
> them,
> > it can be set to AGP or Auto.
> > If set to AGP, the AGP card works, the vga console is shown on the
> Monitor
> > that is connected to that card. I can start an X server for that card,
> and it
> > works.
> > If set to Auto, the PCI card works, and I can start an X server for that
> card.
> >
> > But If it is set to AGP, and I try to start an X server for the PCI
> card, the
> > result is  a complete system lockup, same the other way round.
> >
> > I tried to get some useful debugging output by starting X for the "wrong
> card"
> > via ssh and get some information via the -verbose Option. Such a log can
> be
> > found here:
> > http://www.tuxdesk.de/Xremote.log
> >
> > The xorg.conf can be found here:
> > http://www.tuxdesk.de/xorg.conf.2120
> >
> > One time a short Xorg log was written. I out it here:
> > http://www.tuxdesk.de/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > When I start X whith the -verbose option, the last thing I can see is
> always
> >
> > (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
> > (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP/PCI)" (ChipID =
> 0x5159)
> > (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xe0000000
> > (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 8192 kByte (64 bit SDR SDRAM)
> > (II) RADEON(0): Color tiling enabled by default
> > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libddc.so
> > (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> >         compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
> > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libi2c.so
> > (II) Module i2c: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> >         compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.2.0
> > (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized.
> >
> > and sometimes I see Messages like
> > "Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xff800000
> > end: 0xff9fffff size 0xff820000"
> >
> > The cards work simultaneously with the other OS, so I thought they sould
> work
> > with xorg too.
> >
> > I would be happy to get some input on what to try next, which options I
> might
> > have overlooked and what I could try to get a more meaningful debugging
> > output.
>
> try again with the latest radeon driver on the cvs trunk or the
> ati-1.0-branch, or grab teh latest binary dri snapshots:
>
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76
>
> Alex
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thorsten
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