[Canceled] Potential problem with xorg driver for ATI cards

[Canceled] Potential problem with xorg driver for ATI cards

Postby ghmitch » Jun 7th, '11, 17:44

I just had a serious problem with a Mandriva system that is likely going to hit Mageia soon if someone on the Mageia team doesn't take action. I am using an ATI FireGL video card. Initial auto configuration for BOTH Mandriva AND Mageia *incorrectly* assign the older "ati" xorg driver to this card. All was well for me aside from a really messy Xorg.0.log log file until I upgraded to kernel 2.6.38. At that point I started getting nasty "GPU lockups" causing system freezes. After a lot of investigation, I found that this card as well as many other older Radeon chipset cards *should* be assigned the "radeonhd" xorg driver, *NOT* the "ati" driver with the "radeon" add on module. Once I changed from the "ati" driver to the "radeonhd" driver, my problems went away. So I think that someone on the Mageia team needs to look at this and get it sorted out before you go beyond the 2.6.36 kernel version. - George

Here is a list of "radeonhd" supported cards:

(II) RADEONHD: X driver for the following AMD GPG (ATI) graphics devices:
RV505 : Radeon X1550, X1550 64bit.
RV515 : Radeon X1300, X1550, X1600; FireGL V3300, V3350.
RV516 : Radeon X1300, X1550, X1550 64-bit, X1600; FireMV 2250.
R520 : Radeon X1800; FireGL V5300, V7200, V7300, V7350.
RV530 : Radeon X1300 XT, X1600, X1600 Pro, X1650; FireGL V3400, V5200.
RV535 : Radeon X1300, X1650.
RV550 : Radeon X2300 HD.
RV560 : Radeon X1650.
RV570 : Radeon X1950, X1950 GT; FireGL V7400.
R580 : Radeon X1900, X1950; AMD Stream Processor.
R600 : Radeon HD 2900 GT/Pro/XT; FireGL V7600/V8600/V8650.
RV610 : Radeon HD 2350, HD 2400 Pro/XT, HD 2400 Pro AGP; FireGL V4000.
RV620 : Radeon HD 3450, HD 3470.
RV630 : Radeon HD 2600 LE/Pro/XT, HD 2600 Pro/XT AGP; Gemini RV630;
FireGL V3600/V5600.
RV635 : Radeon HD 3650, HD 3670.
RV670 : Radeon HD 3690, 3850, HD 3870, FireGL V7700, FireStream 9170.
R680 : Radeon HD 3870 X2.
M52 : Mobility Radeon X1300.
M54 : Mobility Radeon X1400; M54-GL.
M56 : Mobility Radeon X1600; Mobility FireGL V5200.
M58 : Mobility Radeon X1800, X1800 XT; Mobility FireGL V7100, V7200.
M62 : Mobility Radeon X1350.
M64 : Mobility Radeon X1450, X2300.
M66 : Mobility Radeon X1700, X1700 XT; FireGL V5250.
M68 : Mobility Radeon X1900.
M71 : Mobility Radeon HD 2300.
M72 : Mobility Radeon HD 2400; Radeon E2400.
M74 : Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT.
M76 : Mobility Radeon HD 2600;
(Gemini ATI) Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT.
M82 : Mobility Radeon HD 3400.
M86 : Mobility Radeon HD 3650, HD 3670, Mobility FireGL V5700.
M88 : Mobility Radeon HD 3850, HD 3850 X2, HD 3870, HD3870 X2.
RS600 : Radeon Xpress 1200, Xpress 1250.
RS690 : Radeon X1200, X1250, X1270.
RS740 : RS740, RS740M.
RS780 : Radeon HD 3100/3200/3300 Series.
R700 : Radeon R700.
RV710 : Radeon HD4570, HD4350.
RV730 : Radeon HD4670, HD4650.
RV740 : Radeon HD4770. EXPERIMENTAL AND UNTESTED.
RV770 : Radeon HD 4800 Series; Everest, K2, Denali ATI FirePro.
RV790 : Radeon HD 4890.
M92 : Mobility Radeon HD4330, HD4530, HD4570. EXPERIMENTAL.
M93 : Mobility Radeon M93. EXPERIMENTAL AND UNTESTED.
M96 : Mobility Radeon HD4600.
M97 : Mobility Radeon HD4860. EXPERIMENTAL AND UNTESTED.
M98 : Mobility Radeon HD4850, HD4870.
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Re: Potential problem with xorg driver for ATI cards ...

Postby ghmitch » Jun 8th, '11, 03:03

Sorry guys, this is a false alarm. The "ati/radeon" driver IS the correct driver for these cards and supersedes the "radeonhd" driver. In my case it appears that the "ati/radeon" driver for my kernel is simply faulty and the inferior "radeonhd" driver works. So the problem is uniquely mine and Mageia did the right thing in assigning the "ati" driver. - George
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Re: [Canceled] Potential problem with xorg driver for ATI ca

Postby ahmad » Jun 10th, '11, 05:47

A shot in the dark, maybe it's the KMS/firmware issue that happened with some ATI cards with the free ati driver... have a look at this bug report https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471
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