[SOLVED] Re: FC3 x86_64 boot hangs at HAL Daemon

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Thiago Guzella wrote:

>>>>Radeon 9200 ADP Video card
>>>>        
>>>>
>This is quite interesting... I have a very similar video card
>(actually it's a Radeon 9200SE)
>
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>>AMD Cool & Quiet is enabled (although I get the same response with it
>>enabled)
>>
>>ACPI 2.0 Support:        [No]
>>ACPI APIC Support:    [Enabled]
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>>    
>>
>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 ...";
>
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>>    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
>>    
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>>    *** 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"...)
>
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>>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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AND:

> Check this: 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20752.html... 
> Try setting your video card at AGP 4x mode on the bios... This worked 
> against a 6.8.0 X.org, so let's hope that FC3's 6.8.1 will do it... 

I figured this out late last night.  I set the BIOS at AGP4x (My video 
card is a 9200 SE as well) and FC3 boots normally.  Switching to 4x took 
care of the problem. I'm booting into KDE now to set up Samba. Thanks 
for the assistance.


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