> > > are on the kernel-level, but I figure this would be a good start. > > > > > > I'm playing with a Sylvania netbook based on VIA C7-M CPU with a > > > VX700-based display adapter (see lspci and such below). It originally > > > had a system called gOS which I didn't really like. I installed Debian > > > Testing on it. It is currently running an up-to-date system with the > > > latest kernel from Debian Unstable. Though I also had similar issues > > > with various other Debian kernels (2.6.32-5-686 from Stable, 2.6.32, > > > 3.0) and with self-compiled 3.0.8 and 3.2.0-rc2. > > > > Did you enable the "X server compatibility" for the viafb driver? > > Yes.
The viafb driver is a bit limited in its support range. Unfortunely the same is true for the newer openchrome drm drivers. > > If you > > enable that and it still doesn't work then your best bet is to just > > disable the vaifb driver. The xorg driver will work fine with UMS mode. > > Also the DVI port is not supported at this time. > > That's what I have. Anything that can be done to help with KMS? Being a netbook I assume you have a LVDS display or is it a DVI only system? As for helping with KMS, well if you serious want to tackle a drm kernel driver I welcome the help. I just recieved a S3 card that has a DVI port. > > > Occasionally the system just hangs completely. I have no idea what makes > > > it hang. I ran it with memtest86+ for a number of days and no problem > > > was found. I see no aparant error message on the console. I tried > > > running a network console a few times and got no useful output. > > > I'm really at loss on how to debug/fix this. > > > > Sounds like a GPU lockup. Usually this happens with the DMA engine. > > First try with the viafb driver. If that doesn't work you can install the > > debug version of the xorg server and do a gdb backtrace of it. > > > > The system locks up completely. How will a debug version help? Even a > remote ssh session is hung. Can you create a xorg.conf file and set NoAccel to TRUE. See if that helps. _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
