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

[Thorsten Becker]

Le Jeudi 16 Mars 2006 16:13, Alex Deucher a écrit :
> On 3/16/06, Thorsten Becker <thorsten.becker at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 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-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d
>228ffb87b76

Just tried the ati-1-0-branch, but it didn't help. dri is not loaded. Same 
problem as before. :( How can I get more verbose logging?

Thx
Thorsten