Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system, whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install *worked*. So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and b) how to force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
mark
-- grub2 must DIE!
On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
Google says it's from 2007 which make it ancient in Internet years :) Afaict it's a FirePro / Radeon HD 3000 series and one solution is to use the proprietary Catalyst *Legacy* driver (< 13.1). The good folks over at elrepo.org have created kmod-fglrx-legacy for these old cards. I don't know if that's EL6 only or that they have one for F19 too. Alternatively check rpmfusion.org.
Looking at the output of modinfo radeon the RV620 is mentioned. That suggests that it should work with the radeon.ko kernel driver. Is the PCI address of your card listed in the output of modinfo radeon? You can find it with 'lspci'.
The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system, whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install *worked*. So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and b) how to force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
Maybe it was using the vesa video driver. Iirc you can force that by booting the kernel with 'xdriver=vesa'. Or you could try 'xdriver=radeon'.
For more info see: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch10s0...
If the vesa driver works fine, if necessary, you could create an xorg.conf which uses the vesa driver. Maybe you also need to blacklist the radeon kernel module if that gets in the way.
Regards, Patrick
On 10/24/2013 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
Google says it's from 2007 which make it ancient in Internet years :)
Maybe ancient to people that can afford to buy the latest and greatest every couple of years but to many that don't have that kind of money it is not that old.
Afaict it's a FirePro / Radeon HD 3000 series and one solution is to use the proprietary Catalyst *Legacy* driver (< 13.1). The good folks over at elrepo.org have created kmod-fglrx-legacy for these old cards. I don't know if that's EL6 only or that they have one for F19 too. Alternatively check rpmfusion.org.
Looking at the output of modinfo radeon the RV620 is mentioned. That suggests that it should work with the radeon.ko kernel driver. Is the PCI address of your card listed in the output of modinfo radeon? You can find it with 'lspci'.
The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system, whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install *worked*. So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and b) how to force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
Maybe it was using the vesa video driver. Iirc you can force that by booting the kernel with 'xdriver=vesa'. Or you could try 'xdriver=radeon'.
For more info see: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch10s0...
If the vesa driver works fine, if necessary, you could create an xorg.conf which uses the vesa driver. Maybe you also need to blacklist the radeon kernel module if that gets in the way.
Regards, Patrick _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists < centos-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
I have a system running Fedora 19 that has a RV620 video card in it. It is using the radeon video driver and working just fine.
~]$ modinfo radeon | egrep -v 'firmware|alias|param' filename: /lib/modules/3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko license: GPL and additional rights description: ATI Radeon author: Gareth Hughes, Keith Whitwell, others. depends: drm,drm_kms_helper,ttm,i2c-core,i2c-algo-bit intree: Y vermagic: 3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 SMP mod_unload signer: Fedora kernel signing key sig_key: 4D:B8:EE:F4:45:2A:F1:A1:6A:E4:A4:DE:A7:8E:84:F8:5D:B5:14:7F sig_hashalgo: sha256 parm: no_wb:Disable AGP writeback for scratch registers (int) parm: modeset:Disable/Enable modesetting (int) parm: dynclks:Disable/Enable dynamic clocks (int) parm: r4xx_atom:Enable ATOMBIOS modesetting for R4xx (int) parm: vramlimit:Restrict VRAM for testing (int) parm: agpmode:AGP Mode (-1 == PCI) (int) parm: gartsize:Size of PCIE/IGP gart to setup in megabytes (32, 64, etc) (int) parm: benchmark:Run benchmark (int) parm: test:Run tests (int) parm: connector_table:Force connector table (int) parm: tv:TV enable (0 = disable) (int) parm: audio:Audio enable (1 = enable) (int) parm: disp_priority:Display Priority (0 = auto, 1 = normal, 2 = high) (int) parm: hw_i2c:hw i2c engine enable (0 = disable) (int) parm: pcie_gen2:PCIE Gen2 mode (-1 = auto, 0 = disable, 1 = enable) (int) parm: msi:MSI support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int) parm: lockup_timeout:GPU lockup timeout in ms (defaul 10000 = 10 seconds, 0 = disable) (int) parm: fastfb:Direct FB access for IGP chips (0 = disable, 1 = enable) (int) parm: dpm:DPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int) parm: aspm:ASPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int)
Google says it's from 2007 which make it ancient in Internet years :) Afaict it's a FirePro / Radeon HD 3000 series and one solution is to use the proprietary Catalyst *Legacy* driver (< 13.1). The good folks over at elrepo.org have created kmod-fglrx-legacy for these old cards. I don't know if that's EL6 only or that they have one for F19 too. Alternatively check rpmfusion.org.
Looking at the output of modinfo radeon the RV620 is mentioned. That suggests that it should work with the radeon.ko kernel driver. Is the PCI address of your card listed in the output of modinfo radeon? You can find it with 'lspci'.
Here's what I've got on a system I'm running.
~]$ lspci -vv -s 01:00.0 | egrep 'VGA|Kernel'; xrandr -q 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Kernel driver in use: radeon Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192 DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-0 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 473mm x 296mm 1680x1050 60.0*+ 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1440x900 75.0 59.9 1280x960 60.0 1360x768 59.8 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DVI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system, whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install *worked*. So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and b) how to force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
So you're seeing problems with the splash/loading screen?
Maybe it was using the vesa video driver. Iirc you can force that by booting the kernel with 'xdriver=vesa'. Or you could try 'xdriver=radeon'.
For more info see:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch10s0...
If the vesa driver works fine, if necessary, you could create an xorg.conf which uses the vesa driver. Maybe you also need to blacklist the radeon kernel module if that gets in the way.
Regards, Patrick _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
SilverTip257 wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists < centos-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
I have a system running Fedora 19 that has a RV620 video card in it. It is using the radeon video driver and working just fine.
~]$ modinfo radeon | egrep -v 'firmware|alias|param' filename: /lib/modules/3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko license: GPL and additional rights
3.11.4-201? From my reinstall, I have 3.11.1-200 and 3.11.6-200. No 201, and no new update (I just did that as I saw this).
Here's what I've got on a system I'm running.
~]$ lspci -vv -s 01:00.0 | egrep 'VGA|Kernel'; xrandr -q 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Kernel driver in use: radeon Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192 DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-0 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 473mm x 296mm 1680x1050 60.0*+ 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1440x900 75.0 59.9 1280x960 60.0 1360x768 59.8 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DVI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Ok, so two things: first, do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Second, what's your kernel line in grub look like? Oh, and for the third of two questions, do you have radeon blacklisted, or nomodeset, anywhere?
The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system, whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install *worked*. So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and
b) how to
force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
So you're seeing problems with the splash/loading screen?
You've added a ! where there was none. No, the graphical install displays *perfectly*.
mark
Btw, one more note: taking out all kernel lines, blacklist, and just a *real* basic xorg.conf, in Xorg.0.log, the very first thing I see is X.Org X Server 1.14.3 Release Date: 2013-09-12 [ 56.756] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 56.756] Build Operating System: 3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [ 56.756] Current Operating System: Linux <...> 3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 18 22:34:18 UTC 2013 x86_64 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So it's obviously not good.....
mark
On 10/24/2013 07:03 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Btw, one more note: taking out all kernel lines, blacklist, and just a *real* basic xorg.conf, in Xorg.0.log, the very first thing I see is X.Org X Server 1.14.3 Release Date: 2013-09-12 [ 56.756] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 56.756] Build Operating System: 3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [ 56.756] Current Operating System: Linux <...> 3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 18 22:34:18 UTC 2013 x86_64 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So it's obviously not good.....
FWIW the latest kernel available in my local Fedora repos is also 3.11.6-200.
What happens when you remove the xorg.conf and blacklisting and all other tweaks you tried and reboot? What does the Xorg.log say if something fails?
Regards, Patrick
Patrick Lists wrote:
On 10/24/2013 07:03 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Btw, one more note: taking out all kernel lines, blacklist, and just a *real* basic xorg.conf, in Xorg.0.log, the very first thing I see is X.Org X Server 1.14.3 Release Date: 2013-09-12 [ 56.756] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 56.756] Build Operating System: 3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [ 56.756] Current Operating System: Linux <...> 3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 18 22:34:18 UTC 2013 x86_64 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So it's obviously not good.....
FWIW the latest kernel available in my local Fedora repos is also 3.11.6-200.
What happens when you remove the xorg.conf and blacklisting and all other tweaks you tried and reboot? What does the Xorg.log say if something fails?
That was where I started, when I did a completely clean install....
mark
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:57 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
SilverTip257 wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists < centos-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not
be
supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).
I have a system running Fedora 19 that has a RV620 video card in it. It is using the radeon video driver and working just fine.
~]$ modinfo radeon | egrep -v 'firmware|alias|param' filename:
/lib/modules/3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
license: GPL and additional rights
3.11.4-201? From my reinstall, I have 3.11.1-200 and 3.11.6-200. No 201, and no new update (I just did that as I saw this).
I don't reboot my machine each time a new kernel is released. And that machine just indicated it has updates (including that kernel version). Updating packages as I write this.
So for two reasons I wasn't running the latest and greatest kernel.
Here's what I've got on a system I'm running.
~]$ lspci -vv -s 01:00.0 | egrep 'VGA|Kernel'; xrandr -q 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Kernel driver in use: radeon Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192 DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-0 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis
y
axis) 473mm x 296mm 1680x1050 60.0*+ 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1440x900 75.0 59.9 1280x960 60.0 1360x768 59.8 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DVI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Ok, so two things: first, do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Second,
No xorg.conf
what's your kernel line in grub look like? Oh, and for the third of two
linux /vmlinuz-3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-rootfs ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg0/swap rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=vg0/rootfs rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8
questions, do you have radeon blacklisted, or nomodeset, anywhere?
I do not have radeon blacklisted, nor do I have nomodeset.
If it's worth saying, I didn't have to fiddle with the display adapter or any other piece of hardware when I set this particular machine up. As one would hope, it was a hands off install (smooth and painless).
The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system, whatever video driver the installer used for graphical install *worked*. So: does anyone have any idea a) what driver that uses, and
b) how to
force grub2 to use it (or do I also need to do this to the initrd)?
So you're seeing problems with the splash/loading screen?
You've added a ! where there was none. No, the graphical install displays *perfectly*.
mark
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