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

[Ricky Rivera]

For the record, I tried 2.6.16-mm1 because i saw that the radeon memory
mapping patch had been added to the DRM git tree, which mm includes.
Unfortunately, it didn't make a noticable change.  (This is with xorg-server
and the ati driver from head.)

--Ricky

On 3/21/06, Thorsten Becker <thorsten.becker at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Le Jeudi 16 Mars 2006 16:00, Thorsten Becker a écrit:
> > 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
>
> Now I managed to get a longer log:
> http://www.tuxdesk.de/Xorg.1.log
>
> Last things I see:
> ===snip
>
> II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvgahw.so
> (II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 0.1.0
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
> (II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03b0, hwp->PIOOffset is
> 0x0000
> (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 565
> (II) RADEON(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
> (II) Loading sub module "int10"
> (II) LoadModule: "int10"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
> (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
> (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
> (**) RADEON(0): Option "NoINT10" "true"
> (--) 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): PCI card detected
> (**) RADEON(0): Forced into PCI mode
> (II) RADEON(0): Color tiling enabled by default
> (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> (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
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
> (II) Loading sub module "i2c"
> (II) LoadModule: "i2c"
> (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
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized.
>
> ===snip
>
> So I think there might be something strange happening when the I2C bus is
> initialized. If I get everything correct I2C is only needed to communicate
> with the monitor, so to rule everything out I would like to disable it.
> But
> setting the Option "NoDDC" to "yes" did not help.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thorsten
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