Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 187854
X driver hangs FC5 on Apple Powerbook
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:29 EST
Description of problem: The radeon driver in stock FC5 PPC doesn't work on a 15" Powerbook. When the X driver loads, it completely hangs the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.5.7.3-4 How reproducible: Crashes and burns every time! Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a text-based install of FC5-ppc 2. Make sure xorg.conf looks reasonable 3. Start X Actual results: The display goes black, and the machine completely hangs. Expected results: X working Additional info: With the invaluable help of David Woodhouse, we were able to track down the problem. I've attached the output of starting X on display :1 while logged in through SSH, which shows the problem. The last few lines are: # (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed # (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. # (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default # (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191) # (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,854) to (1280,856) # (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7335 # (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer. # (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled David Woodhouse had me try some modules from the ati-1-0-branch that he had created, and they work great. I'm more than happy to test updated RPMs or do additional testing if you'd like -- just let me know!
Created attachment 127263 [details] X debug log
Next few lines of output (from a _working_ driver) should have been... (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer. (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled (**) RADEON(0): EngineInit (32/32) (**) RADEON(0): Pitch for acceleration = 180 (**) RADEON(0): EngineRestore (32/32) (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
I hate to be a pest, but does anyone know when an update to X will happen?
just to add a counterpoint, the radeon driver worked fine out of the box on my 15" AlBook (PowerBook5,6). Which model was this? (cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep machine)
Mine says "PowerBook5,6" just like yours. I've attached the output of /proc/cpuinfo for your information.
Created attachment 127813 [details] Output of /proc/cpuinfo
Please report this issue to X.Org developers by filing a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "NEEDINFO_REPORTER", awaiting X.Org bug URL for tracking.
Go ahead and close this bug... everything is working on Fedora Core 6.