Hello Everyone, I'm running the x86_64 bit version of CentOS 4 on a dual AMD Opteron server. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon X300. At the moment, Xorg is configured to use the open source driver, radeon. The server itself is connected to a KVM switch, which has otherwise not caused any issues. Recently, the virtual terminals have started to go blank and then not come back. What I mean by that is that the VTs from 1 to 7 do not display anything (the server is typically running in run level 5). I thought perhaps DPMS was on, but no amount of typing on the keyboard brings them back. I then considered it was related to the vga=791 parameter I was passing to the kernel - there were many mtrr errors reported in /var/log/messages. However, removing that parameter hasn't fixed the problem. Restarting GDM or changing the server's run levels doesn't work either. Only a reboot resolves the issue. (Hmmm...now that I think about it, removing the radeon module and adding it again might be equivalent to the reboot). There's nothing in /var/log/messages or in the xorg log file to indicate a problem. All the tty processes are running normally. I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this before. If so, is switching to the proprietary driver the only option? Is there anything else I can look at? I'm suspecting it's a driver issue, and so will shortly try the proprietary driver from ATI. Thanks, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 16:31:58 up 10:01, 3 users, load average: 0.94, 0.33, 0.20
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:44:20PM -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:> I'm running the x86_64 bit version of CentOS 4 on a dual AMD Opteron > server. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon X300. At the moment, Xorg > is configured to use the open source driver, radeon. The server itself > is connected to a KVM switch, which has otherwise not caused any issues.(...)> I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this before. If so, > is switching to the proprietary driver the only option? Is there > anything else I can look at? I'm suspecting it's a driver issue, and so > will shortly try the proprietary driver from ATI.ATI support on Xorg is very iffy at the moment. I have been having problems all over when I have any ATI based card. I suppose it will get sorted out by 4.3. At least I hope it will. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEF1KwpdyWzQ5b5ckRAqzWAJ9wDDDPhaVP47Wx8ExdQzjTkhSYTQCgqXnh QaT52Mo94f7vTkyMkRqI0gk=oSdq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:> Hello Everyone, > > I'm running the x86_64 bit version of CentOS 4 on a dual AMD Opteron > server. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon X300. At the moment, Xorg > is configured to use the open source driver, radeon. The server itself > is connected to a KVM switch, which has otherwise not caused any issues.CentOS 4.2 does NOT work with ATI! Period! not x86-64 and x86.. X is completely screwed up. I hope that this will be fixed with 4.3. I had to switch to an nVidia card that works perfectly. This is not just CentOS, it's X. I had the same problem with Ubuntu, but SuSE worked perfectly without any problem, they have newer drivers. I tried with the drivers from X and from ATI, same. If you can live with it, you can edit Xorg.conf and change the driver to VESA, but it's ugly. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:> I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this before. If so, > is switching to the proprietary driver the only option? Is there > anything else I can look at? I'm suspecting it's a driver issue, and so > will shortly try the proprietary driver from ATI.I'm running X300 on one of my boxes, and it seems that my particular card runs OK. I don't think it's original ATI card, just uses the ATI chipset. Of course, there's no 3D acceleration (just 2D).