Bug#516210: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: black screen after Lenny install
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:17 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
> > Version: 1.2.1-2
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Might warrant higher severity, since it prevents any graphical use of the system.
> >
>
> No. Higher severity are for packages breaking the system. Not having X
> is far from preventing the system from working :)
>
> > In fact, my immediate reaction was that the installation had failed; console based virtual
> > terminals (and switching to them) still work.
> > Might be a bug in some installer component.
> >
>
> Why? Your xorg.conf looks good. If there's a bug, it's more likely in
> the X driver or server.
That was just a guess based on the "No matching Device section" warning.
>
> > This was a fresh install on new hardware (multi-core 64 bit Xeon; amd64 architecture) with
> > the released Lenny installer. I did the graphical install, selecting KDE under advanced
> > options. I don't recall even a chance to customize the video, and I haven't touched it.
> >
>
> That's the expected behavior, the Xserver is supposed to configure many
> things automatically.
>
> > Oddly, there are no errors, and only 2 warnings (full logs below):
> > (WW) RADEONHD: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found
> >
>
> You can ignore this.
>
> > (WW) RADEONHD(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x10000000)
> >
>
> Shouldn't cause any problem, maybe just some lower performance.
>
> > The system arrived with Debian Etch installed, and had video then. I believe a proprietary
> > driver was installed; that will be my next move. Some vanilla vga driver is another possibility.
> >
>
> You should try radeonhd 1.2.4 but it's only built for experimental so
> far. So I rebuilt for Lenny for at
> http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/radeonhd-1.2.4-Xserver1.4/
Thanks. I installed the amd64 non-debug flavor. It seems to behave the
same. I noticed a few more things (probably same as before):
In vt7 the power light on my monitor flashes and there doesn't appear to
be any power to the monitor.
Although nothing is visible, kdm and X are running. That's consistent
with the lack of fatal errors.
FYI I had also installed fglrx-driver and related packages (no 3D
stuff). These caused X to fail and print a backtrace. I removed them
and the open source drivers seemed to get control back. I had never
installed proprietary drivers at the time of my original bug report.
>
> If radeonhd fails, you should then try the radeon driver as well. There
> 6.9.0 in Lenny which may work on your board.
It does! Thank you!
(I added Driver "radeon" to xorg.conf.)
How do radeonhd and radeon differ?
> If it doesn't, you could
> try amd64 packages of the very recent radeon 6.11.0 at
> http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/ati-6.11.0-Xserver1.4/
>
> Brice
>
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