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

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 15:55 +0300, Tomi Leppänen wrote: 
> ma, 2011-09-19 kello 12:53 +0200, Michel Dänzer kirjoitti:
> > 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:
> > 
> > > 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.
> 
> If it helps, I have a Nvidia GeForce 2 MX (AGP) and it seems to work
> completely. (though that card doesn't support interlacing)
> I can get dmesg for that too if needed but it takes probably a bit
> longer.

I don't think that'll buy anything at this point.


> > > 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?
> 
> Yes, it does work.

Then it seems most likely that the problem is with the BIOS or the card.
At this point I don't see many options left other than trying if the
card works in another machine or with another OS, or maybe trying to
re-flash the ROM image on the card if that's possible.


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