FC3 x86_64 boot hangs at HAL Daemon

[Thiago Guzella]

> >>Radeon 9200 ADP Video card
This is quite interesting... I have a very similar video card
(actually it's a Radeon 9200SE)

> AMD Cool & Quiet is enabled (although I get the same response with it
> enabled)
> 
> ACPI 2.0 Support:        [No]
> ACPI APIC Support:    [Enabled]
> 
Same as me... What I have noticed is that if Cool & Quiet is disabled,
the powernowk8 error message is: "BIOS Error: No PSB", as expected, as
C&Q is disabled; if it's enabled, the error is "ph2 null fid
transition ...";

>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: powernow-k8: vid trans failed, vid
> 0x3, curr 0x4
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: powernow-k8: transition frequency
> failed

>     *** Here's something that may be valuable: ***
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: ACPI: PCI interuppt
> 0000:01:00.0[A]  -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: [drm] initialized radeon 1.011.00
> 20020828 on minor 0:
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0
> compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Badness. Don't know which
> AGP mode to set
>              [cmd: 1f000a0a  tmp: 1f000a1a   fell back to:- cmd:
> 1f000a08  tmp: 1f000a1a]
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Bridge couldn't do AGP x4.
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Graphic card couldn't do
> AGP x4.
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Badness. Don't know which
> AGP mode to set
>              [cmd: 1f000a08  tmp: ff00021b   fell back to:- cmd:
> 1f000208  tmp: ff00021b]
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Bridge couldn't do AGP x4.
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at
> 0000:00:00.0 into 0x mode
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at
> 0000:01:00.0 into 0x mode
>     Dec 24 08:09:03 Localhost Kernel: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
Quite intriguing... it seems that the system is unable to configure
the video card...  The device is located and determined to be agp 3.0
compliant, but the system is unable to put the device on AGP 4x
mode.... I guess that's the problem. Have you got an nvidia card to
give it a chance on this system? I could do it, but I am not home
right now (vacation), and I won't be back before january 15th... Maybe
the problem has nothing to deal with cpufreq (ie.: the "powernowk8
error"...)


> In /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>     *** Though I'm very unfamilar with this, it appears I have some type
> of video problem ***
>     I get errors ([hsync out of range] and [bad mode
> clock/interface/doublescan]) on every screen resolution tested
As the system can't configure the video card, X.org can't set up
resolution, frequency, etc...

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Thiago dos Santos Guzella
Electrical Enginnering Student - UFMG (www.ufmg.br), Brazil 
Linux User #354160
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