rawhide install report: failed - now working with xdriver=vesa

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On 08/17/2009 04:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 14:50 -0400, James Laska wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 11:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 22:17 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>>>> On 08/16/2009 09:36 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>>>>> Did the xdriver=vesa boot parameter and the install is proceeding
>>>>> normally.  Now about 85% done, further than it's gotten before.
>>>>>
>>>> It succeeded. had to add radeon.modeset=0 to GRUB to get it to startup
>>>> correctly.  No way to predict that.
>>>
>>> Usual procedure: file a bug on xorg-x11-drv-ati with the appropriate
>>> information...
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging
>>>
>>> does the installer boot OK if you use radeon.modeset=0 (but not
>>> xdriver=vesa)?
>>
>> I suspect I'm seeing something similar.  With the latest rawhide
>> (xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-21.fc12.i686 and
>> kernel-2.6.31-0.125.4.2.rc5.git2.fc12.i686), I'm unable to login to
>> startx without seeing the following segfault.
>
> G. Wolfe, can you please check your /var/log/Xorg.*.log after trying to
> start up with KMS enabled on the affected system to see if your issue is
> the same as jlaska's? it's quite important - if this is affecting
> multiple cards it may have implications for the Alpha.
>
I don't show a segfault, but the QD 7200 fails to detect a screen and 
errs out.  The network comes up and the system is running underneath a 
dead head.  The error in Xorg.0.log is that it can see no monitors 
definitely connected, then it says screens found but not useable.

> (WW) RADEON(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again...
> (WW) RADEON(0): Unable to find initial modes
> (II) RADEON(0): mem size init: gart size :20000000 vram size: s:2000000 visible:1c00000
> (==) RADEON(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
> (II) Loading sub module "fb"
> (II) LoadModule: "fb"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
> (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.6.99.1, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
> (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
> (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
> (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
> (II) Loading sub module "exa"
> (II) LoadModule: "exa"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so
> (II) Module exa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.6.99.1, module version = 2.5.0
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
> (EE) RADEON(0): No modes.
> (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
> (II) UnloadModule: "exa"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so
> (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found