Radeon driver and 200M

[Alex Deucher]

On Jan 30, 2008 9:05 PM, Randolph Chung <randolph at tausq.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying for many months to switch from fglrx to the opensource
> radeon driver.
>
> The latest fglrx (8.10) driver causes all sorts of system hangs on this
> system :( I tried the radeon driver (6.7.197) today and it also seems to
> hang this machine quite easily. Granted that the driver already warned
> me that:
>
>         Direct rendering for RN50/RC410/RS485/R600 forced on --
>         This is NOT officially supported at the hardware level
>         and may cause instability or lockups
>
> Is there any hope at all for this to work? :)

eventually I hope to try and straighten this out, but right now my
focus is on getting 3D out for the new chips.

>
> Here's my setup:
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:022a]
>
> 6.7.197 radeon driver with xorg 1.3.0 and mesa-7.0.1:
> - doesn't crash usually (with DRI enabled), but gives me a blank white
>   screen if i start compiz
>
> 6.7.197 radeon driver with xorg 1.4.99.2 and mesa-7.1.0:
> - DRI not enabled - starts up, but very slow (not using compiz,
>   obviously)
> - DRI enabled - hangs the system solid everytime I start X
>
> X logs are attached. Anything I can do to help test or fix this?

Well, compiz won't work at the moment on XPRESS chips even if you get
the DRI working since there are texturing problems.  Beyond that you
might try hardcoding a vram size in your bios if you have the option
to.

Alex