Bug 488843 - update broke ATI driver for multiple screens
Summary: update broke ATI driver for multiple screens
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Airlie
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-05 22:06 UTC by Joachim Deguara
Modified: 2009-12-18 08:57 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 08:57:54 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
xorg.conf for bigger virtual screen size (192 bytes, text/plain)
2009-03-05 22:06 UTC, Joachim Deguara
no flags Details
log with no second screen and no xorg.conf (46.49 KB, text/plain)
2009-03-05 22:12 UTC, Joachim Deguara
no flags Details
log with no second screen but with xorg.conf_bigscreen (39.87 KB, text/plain)
2009-03-05 22:13 UTC, Joachim Deguara
no flags Details

Description Joachim Deguara 2009-03-05 22:06:26 UTC
Created attachment 334223 [details]
xorg.conf for bigger virtual screen size

Description of problem:

After updating my system, as normal, X stopped working upon reboot.  I traced this to me either having a second screen attached to the laptop or by using a xorg.conf that expanded the virtual screen size.
Looking at the diffs of the log files comparing with and without the xorg.conf for a big screen (and while having no second monitor attached) I saw it looks like it has to do with the framebuffer memory size.  I went into BIOS and changed the amount of memory for graphics from 32MB to 64MB and also tried 128 MB but both bigger sizes would also break X and this time without the xorg.conf or second monitor.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-2.fc10.i386


How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot with nomodeset (KMS is broke on this RS485 system) into runlevel 3
2. use attached xorg.conf to increase virtual screen size (or plug in second monitor)
3. start X
  
Actual results:

crash

Expected results:

pretty X


Additional info: 

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]

Comment 1 Joachim Deguara 2009-03-05 22:12:12 UTC
Created attachment 334224 [details]
log with no second screen and no xorg.conf

Comment 2 Joachim Deguara 2009-03-05 22:13:25 UTC
Created attachment 334225 [details]
log with no second screen but with xorg.conf_bigscreen

Comment 3 Joachim Deguara 2009-03-18 21:32:41 UTC
The system works if I disable DRI.  I did this after a git bisect pointed to commit 72992668.  But talking with Alex this appears to be a GART issue.  I tried with the vanilla kernel 2.6.28.7 but it also had this problem.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 08:57:54 UTC
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