On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Max Liebkies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having a problem starting the X server. I'm not even 100% sure if the > issue isn't hardware related but at this point I don't think so. The main > problem is when running "startx" I get an overall grey screen with some > colored lines (about 30?) and nothing else. Please see the attached > "screenshot" for details. It's seems that the X server is crashing and > falling back to the console because typing "reboot" blindly when having the > grey screen really does a system reboot. The funny thing is that nothing gets > logged when running "startx" so I can't really trace the problem. > In contrast to this when I run "Xorg -retro" everything works fine, I can > sometimes even Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a console without getting the grey screen > again. When I try to run "Xorg -configure" all it does is flicker about two > times and then completely freeze the system with a black screen and a not > even blinking cursor. > > I'm running Kernel 2.6.33.2 with CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y and > CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y. I compiled the newest (6.13.0) ati driver. > > I attached a Xorg logfile and a "screenshot" showing the grey screen. > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Make sure you have the kms enabled drm loaded before X starts and that your ddx (xf86-video-ati) is compiled with kms support. Check dmesg as well. Your xorg log shows that the ddx is loading in ums mode which will cause conflicts of kms is also active. Alex > > Max Liebkies > > Output from lspci: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge > 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge > 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge > 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA > 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) > 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) > 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) > 00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) > 00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) > 00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) > 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13) > 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) > 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge > 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] > HyperTransport Technology Configuration > 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] > Address Map > 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM > Controller > 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] > Miscellaneous Control > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress > 200M] > 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01) > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev > 02) > 08:01.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host > Adapter (rev 19) > 08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01) > > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati > > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
