Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

[Robert Persson]

I should have made it clear that the problems I am having are with the voodoo 
card and not with the radeon.

Also I should add that I have booted into windows and verified that the 
hardware works correctly. This is the output of startx:

xauth:  creating new authority file /home/robert/.serverauth.11075


X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-reiser4-suspend2 i686
Current Operating System: Linux zebedee 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-reiser4-suspend2 #23 
SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 19 18:16:48 PDT 2006 i686
Build Date: 16 June 2006
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jun 19 19:51:57 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "v4l" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(EE) TDFX(1): Cannot read V_BIOS
(EE) TDFX(1): Cannot read V_BIOS
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/default, removing from list!

waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: 
FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.


Robert

On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like:
> A while ago I had a working 2-head setup which I stopped using because I
> needed to use the proprietary ati driver. Now I need to revert to using the
> twin-head setup, but I can't get it to work any more.
>
> I have the same xorg.conf as before. What has changed is that I have
> upgraded to xorg-7. It is also likely that I did something to my kernel
> config to get the fglrx driver to work properly, but I can't remember what
> exactly. I get confused about this because the various display-related
> kernel options are scattered all over the place.
>
> The setup basically consists of an agp radeon 9200SE (using the radeon
> driver) and a pci voodoo banshee (using the tdfx driver).
>
> The precise manifestation of the problem changed with the recent bump from
> xorg-server-1.0.2-r4 to xorg-server-1.0.2-r5.
>
> Before the bump I got a screen that was the right overall colour, but with
> ugly incomplete horizontal lines across it. Windows were recognisably
> windows, but still heavily garbled. Within half an hour or so I would have
> complete system lock-up.
>
> After the bump I now get a screen composed of horizontal red and black
> lines, with the occasional flicker  on the left hand side when something
> happens on the desktop. The only thing that is barely recognisable is the
> mouse pointer, which looks like a white bar-code. After a period of use
> (perhaps 20 minutes) the display locks up irrecoverably, but I am able to
> restart gracefully from a remote terminal session.
>
> I tried the noaccel option, but that made no useful difference (I merely
> got a few warning messages).
>
> I have tried using alternative drivers, but I can't get any to work for me.
> I had thought that vesa was a generic driver that should work on pretty
> well anything, but it doesn't work here. The log says "chipset vesa not
> found". fbdev doesn't work either. I tried vga, but that caused an instant
> system lock-up.
>
> What should I do to get a working 2-head setup?
>
> And when I have got it working, would there be any advantage in emerging
> xorg-drm, in terms of making up for the performance shortfall between the
> radeon driver and fglrx?

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