On Mon, 2003/02/24 at 17:28:57 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> So I got a new Dell laptop, ATI Radeon 7500. Installed FreeBSD
> 5.0-RELEASE, X 4.2.1, and KDE right off the FreeBSD Mall CD-ROM.
> I configured X from the installation setup and was happily
> running X and KDE @ 1400x1050. Cool.
>
> Then I cvsup'd to a recent -current from about a week ago,
> which my other laptop and desktop are currently running just
> fine (both use very old 3.x or 4.x built X's, probably XFree86
> 3.2.x and running with compat libraries). Now X refuses to
> work. It's not the kernel because before installing world,
> I installed the kernel and booted it to make sure everything
> still worked. X was happy with the old kernel too 'cause
> I went back and tried it again also. But after the installworld,
> X didn't work, not even xf86cfg. I tried the installworld with
> and without mergemaster'ing and X didn't work regardless. I
> went back and did another fresh install of 5.0R and X worked
> again, but after another installworld, I got the same problem.
> The XFree86 log file is at the end. It aborts with:
>
> [...]
> (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
> (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
> (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC Level none
> (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 2 sec.
> (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xfcff0000,0x80000) was already clear
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x2000000)
> (II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=12 min=12000 max=35000; xclk=16600
> (==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 10. Server aborting
>
> Any ideas? I'm in the process of trying a more recent -current
> and am also going to try and rebuild X (though we shouldn't
> have to do that).
I saw something like that on my notebook, too - in my case, it was a
problem in the radeon driver which could be worked around by adding an
explicit "Modes" line in the used Display subsection in XF86Config,
like:
Section "Screen"
[...]
DefaultColorDepth 24
[...]
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
- Thomas
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