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

[Ander Conselvan de Oliveira]

Ricky Rivera wrote:
> I forgot to mention, I have an AGP All-in-Wonder Radeon (R100) and a PCI 
> 7000 as well.  I didn't get a hard lock the first time I tried it, just 
> an infinite loop of some sort, so it managed to write a log file:
> http://s88382932.onlinehome.us/files/Xorg.0.log-aticvs
> my config:
> http://s88382932.onlinehome.us/files/xorg.conf
You should use the option SingleCard in the server layouts.

Ander

> 
> --Ricky
> 
> On 3/16/06, *Ricky Rivera* <ricky.rivera at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ricky.rivera at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>     <mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On 3/16/06, Thorsten Becker <thorsten.becker at gmx.de
>         <mailto: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
>         <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
>         <http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76>
> 
>         Alex
> 
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Thorsten
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