On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Michael wrote:
we ran into two problems with the ati driver.
First - it seems to screw up when switching resolution on Sun PGX64
cards ( these use a Rage XL with 8MB VRAM). The result is a monitor
reporting frequencies out of range, even when forced to use something
very conservative that works with the same monitor and a different
graphics controller.
It works just fine with a Rage Pro.
If the XL has no ix86 BIOS, the ReferenceClock option (documented in
README.ati) likely needs to be specified. Accurately detecting this value is
not possible.
Second - the driver seems to either ignore the BusID parameter.
Log excerpt:
(--) PCI: (1:2:0) ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP rev 92, Mem @
0xe100000 0/24, 0xe2000000/12, I/O @ 0xffffff00/8, BIOS @ 0xe1020000/17
(--) PCI: (2:1:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39, Mem
@0x11000000/24, 0x12 000000/12, I/O @ 0xffffff00/8, BIOS @ 0x12020000/17
That's the onboard Rage Pro and a Sun PGX64 in a Sun Ultra 5
The Device section in XF86Config:
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "accel" # [<bool>]
#Option "crt_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "composite_sync" # [<bool>]
#Option "hw_cursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "test_mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "panel_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "probe_clocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "reference_clock" # <freq>
#Option "shadow_fb" # [<bool>]
#Option "sw_cursor" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "3D Rage Pro 215GP"
ChipSet "ati"
ChipId 0x4750
ChipRev 0x5c
BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
EndSection
but XFree fails with this:
(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Card0".
(II) ATI: Unshared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:2:0 detected.
Fatal server error:
xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=2000,a=12000000] (Invalid
argument)
So it tries to map PCI resources belonging to the Rage XL while the
Device section clearly says it should use the onboard Rage Pro. Even if
it's only probing it shouldn't fail here since the device it's supposed
to use is definitely usable - with the Rage XL removed it works as
expected.
The Xserver in question is:
XFree86 Version 4.5.0
Release Date: 16 March 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System:NetBSD/sparc64 3.99.8 - The NetBSD Foundation,
Inc.
Current Operating System: NetBSD <censored> 3.99.9 NetBSD 3.99.9
(INISHOWEN) #594: Fri Sep 23 06:57:25 EDT 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/INISHOWEN sparc64
I'd need to see a log of this.
any ideas?
Anything we should import from XFree -current?
I think doing so for this problem is a little premature.
Marc.
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