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Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000



On Don, 2002-10-31 at 10:00, Eric Deveaud wrote: 
> 
> I'm trying to set up X with a radeon 9000 with a 17'' Apple flat pannel
> plugged on ADC
> 
> my kernel is a fresh 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 from Tue Oct 29 with
> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
> CONFIG_AGP=y
> CONFIG_DRM=y
> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y
> 
> I've got the X sources by CVS-ing it from xfree86.org
> build was OK, but now I figthing with the configuration.
> 
> as far as I see on the logs, X starts, detect the card, load the good
> driver (ati and sub module "radeon") that claims to support radeon
> 9000 but all I get is a black screen and the flat panel power
> ligth flash 3 times , I have to kill X by ctrl-alt-del
> but the problem, is that this black-screen remains even after killing X
> I have to blind type or ssh to the machine or reboot in order to
> continue ;-(

Can you try my latest DRI packages from

deb	http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/	./

(yes, I'm moving them) and maybe play with Option "DisplayType"? Start
with "CRT", the other valid arguments are "LCD" and "CRT".


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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