Re: XFree 4.2.1 and Radeon 9000 hickups.

[Haralambos Geortgilakis <haralambos@ihug.co.nz>]

Hi Yall & Russell,

I went to the DRI project & added that to my apt list, grabed & 
installed them & have not looked back.

Give it a try man!

*BFN*

Greek Geek :-)


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Russell Neches wrote:

> Interesting. I'm able to start XFree86 this way, but doing so causes
> the keyboard and mouse to die. I had to shell into the box and kill
> XFree86 to regain control. 
>
> Russell
>
> Michael Klemme <michael7@onlinehome.de> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Hallo!
> >
> > I use XFree 4.1.2 with a Radeon 9000 video card.
> > I retrieved the beta packages 4.2.1-3 from Branden's repository. 
> > I managed to get it run by setting
> > 	ChipId	0x4242
> > in the XF86Config-4. 
> >
> > I get a aceptable image at 1152x864 and 75 Hz.
> >
> > However, there are some things that are strange:
> >
> > 1.) After a while the PS/2 mouse starts to move errornously to the lower
> >  left corner, random key press events occurr (such as past into
> >  xterms - yacc!).
> >  This seems not to be related to system load. The mouse has an
> >  exclusive interupt, all unnecessary devises are switched off in the
> >  BIOS. I tried three different mice, all with the same result.
> >
> >
> > 2.) Setting NumLock disables all special window manager actions.
> >  This used to work before 
> >  I am still using fvwm1, and I will have to fix this in my configuration.
> >
> >
> > 3.) When moving the mouse pressing ALT of Shift stops the mouse until
> >  they are released.
> >
> >
> >
> > This is the head of the startup messages
> > ----
> > X: warning; process set to priority 0 instead of requested priority -10
> >
> > XFree86 Version 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-3 20021019202935 blochedu@linda.rhrk.uni-kl.de) / X Window System
> > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> > Release Date: 3 September 2002
> > 	If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
> > 	newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
> > 	reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
> > Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19 i686 [ELF] 
> >
> > ----
> >
> > scanpci output
> > ----
> > pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x4966
> > ATI  Device unknown
> > CardVendor 0x174b card 0x7194 (Card unknown)
> >  STATUS    0x02b0  COMMAND 0x0187
> >  CLASS     0x03 0x00 0x00  REVISION 0x01
> >  BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0x40  CACHE 0x08
> >  BASE0     0xd0000008  addr 0xd0000000  MEM PREFETCHABLE
> >  BASE1     0x00009801  addr 0x00009800  I/O
> >  BASE2     0xdfef0000  addr 0xdfef0000  MEM
> >  BASEROM   0xdfec0000  addr 0xdfec0000  not-decode-enabled
> >  MAX_LAT   0x00  MIN_GNT 0x08  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x0b
> > ----
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >   Michael Klemme
> >
> >
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