Bug#641176: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Radeon 9200SE, Detected VRAM RAM=0M, BAR=0M

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Son, 2011-09-18 at 11:38 +0300, Tomi Leppänen wrote: 
> la, 2011-09-17 kello 06:10 -0700, Will Set kirjoitti:
> > 
> >   Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:49 AM Tomi Leppänen wrote:
> > > pe, 2011-09-16 kello 15:43 -0500, Jonathan Nieder kirjoitti:
> > >>  Hi Tomi,
> > >> 
> > >>  Tomi Leppänen wrote:
> > >> 
> > >>  > [    0.073485] PCI: Ignoring host bridge windows from ACPI; if 
> > > necessary, use "pci=use_crs" and report a bug
> > >> 
> > >>  I was hoping it would be that.  Does adding pci=use_crs to the kernel
> > >>  command line help?
> > >> 
> > >>  Thanks,
> > >>  Jonathan
> > > 
> > > Didn't make any difference. Here is dmesg now:
> > 
> > If you turn modesetting off you should be able to get the xserver running again.
> > 
> radeon.modeset=0 didn't seem to affect anything.
> Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/3JKs85PP
> dmesg: http://pastebin.com/fZehesaK
> with radeon.modeset=0

There's just no way the GPU can be used properly if its PCI resources
aren't properly set up.


> I wonder why my grub is just some colorful crap on bottom of my screen.
> I can't really edit anything on fly but I have to always make changes
> to /etc/default/grub and then issue update-grub. That may have something
> to do with this bug.

It's further indication that the problem may stem from the BIOS, or
possibly even the hardware itself.


> I also noticed that all of my memory is LOWMEM. Though graphics card
> doesn't change that (tried with ATI Rage 128VR that has trouble with DRI
> on Debian 6).

Does that card basically work though? Do you also get PCI related errors
in dmesg with it?


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