Some KMS problem on a MSI S270 laptop

**rvdboom** · 11-16-2009, 07:48 AM

Hi,
I'm currently running KMS with a 2.6.32rc7 kernel with recent git pulls of libdrm, mesa and xf86-video-ati on several of my Slackware-current systems.
On my desktop, with an onboard R*780* chipset (don't remember exactly what), everything works fine and the screen corruptions seens in previous kernels are fixed. I'm really pleased with the results.
On my laptop, who has a Xpress200M chipset, I have some issues at boot. The first try I made with KMS, using the the first kernel supporting them, worked actually very well. But since the 32rc* release, I first had issues that the resolution seemed not properly detected : the screen is supposed to be 1280x800 but the console just used a small part of the screen and X was clearly of low resolution. After one or two switches between "telinit 3" and "telinit 3", X would finally get the resolution right.
With the last 32rc7 kernel, now, with init 4, X doesn't display anything at boot (but seems to start) and the console resolution still seems wrong. If I switch to a console using Ctrl-Alt-F6, then run "telinit 3" then again "telinit 4", this time X start properly and displays the KDE composited desktop correctly.

According to Xorg.0.log, my chipset is a Xpress 200M 5955 PCIE (ChipID=0x5955). AIGLX, DRI2 seems to work well.
The dmesg says the following :

Code:

 bash-3.1$dmesg|grep 'drm'
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810[drm] radeon defaulting to kernel 
modesetting. 
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
[drm] register mmio base: 0xFBEF0000
[drm] register mmio size: 65536
[drm] GPU reset succeed (RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
[drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)
[drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
[drm] radeon: VRAM 128M 
[drm] radeon: VRAM from 0x58000000 to 0x5FFFFFFF
[drm] radeon: GTT 32M
[drm] radeon: GTT from 0x60000000 to 0x61FFFFFF
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=256M
[drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 32M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] GART: num cpu pages 8192, num gpu pages 8192
[drm] radeon: 4 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized.
[drm] radeon: cp idle (0x10000C03)
[drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000060000000
[drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[drm] Default TV standard: NTSC
[drm] 14.318180000 MHz TV ref clk
[drm] Panel ID String: AU B121EW01 1280x800WXGA
[drm] Panel Size 1280x800
[drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[drm] Connector 0:
[drm]   VGA
[drm]   DDC: 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[drm] Connector 1:
[drm]   LVDS
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_LVDS
[drm] Connector 2:
[drm]   S-video
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     TV1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[drm] fb mappable at 0xD0040000
[drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
[drm] size 4096000
[drm] fb depth is 24
[drm]    pitch is 5120
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 1280x800 18
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 800x600 1b
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 1280x800 18
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 800x600 1d
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 1280x800 18
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
bash-3.1$

Is there some manipulation I should make to make this work properly or does this look like a problem I should report?

**dolphin77** · 11-16-2009, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by rvdboom

Hi,
I'm currently running KMS with a 2.6.32rc7 kernel with recent git pulls of libdrm, mesa and xf86-video-ati on several of my Slackware-current systems.
On my desktop, with an onboard R*780* chipset (don't remember exactly what), everything works fine and the screen corruptions seens in previous kernels are fixed. I'm really pleased with the results.
On my laptop, who has a Xpress200M chipset, I have some issues at boot. The first try I made with KMS, using the the first kernel supporting them, worked actually very well. But since the 32rc* release, I first had issues that the resolution seemed not properly detected : the screen is supposed to be 1280x800 but the console just used a small part of the screen and X was clearly of low resolution. After one or two switches between "telinit 3" and "telinit 3", X would finally get the resolution right.
With the last 32rc7 kernel, now, with init 4, X doesn't display anything at boot (but seems to start) and the console resolution still seems wrong. If I switch to a console using Ctrl-Alt-F6, then run "telinit 3" then again "telinit 4", this time X start properly and displays the KDE composited desktop correctly.

According to Xorg.0.log, my chipset is a Xpress 200M 5955 PCIE (ChipID=0x5955). AIGLX, DRI2 seems to work well.
The dmesg says the following :

Code:

 bash-3.1$dmesg|grep 'drm'
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810[drm] radeon defaulting to kernel 
modesetting. 
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
[drm] register mmio base: 0xFBEF0000
[drm] register mmio size: 65536
[drm] GPU reset succeed (RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
[drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)
[drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
[drm] radeon: VRAM 128M 
[drm] radeon: VRAM from 0x58000000 to 0x5FFFFFFF
[drm] radeon: GTT 32M
[drm] radeon: GTT from 0x60000000 to 0x61FFFFFF
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=256M
[drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 32M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] GART: num cpu pages 8192, num gpu pages 8192
[drm] radeon: 4 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized.
[drm] radeon: cp idle (0x10000C03)
[drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000060000000
[drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[drm] Default TV standard: NTSC
[drm] 14.318180000 MHz TV ref clk
[drm] Panel ID String: AU B121EW01 1280x800WXGA
[drm] Panel Size 1280x800
[drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[drm] Connector 0:
[drm]   VGA
[drm]   DDC: 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[drm] Connector 1:
[drm]   LVDS
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_LVDS
[drm] Connector 2:
[drm]   S-video
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     TV1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[drm] fb mappable at 0xD0040000
[drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
[drm] size 4096000
[drm] fb depth is 24
[drm]    pitch is 5120
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 1280x800 18
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 800x600 1b
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 1280x800 18
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 800x600 1d
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] not detecting due to 00000004
[drm] LVDS-11: set mode 1280x800 18
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
[drm] crtc 1 is connected to a TV
[drm] TV-9: set mode 800x600 19
bash-3.1$

Is there some manipulation I should make to make this work properly or does this look like a problem I should report?

Not sure, but I think you have issues of initialization of radeon driver before root is mounted and thus it cannot load firware for the driver.

Try to add radeon and radeonfb to blacklist (/etc/modrprobe.d/blacklist). And then load radeon driver from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, with '/sbin/modprobe radeon'

**rvdboom** · 11-16-2009, 08:24 AM

Thanks for the reply.
I compile the driver (and firmware I guess) in the kernel and don't use modules.
I don't have the problem on my desktop so I would be surprised to have th is very issue on my laptop alone. Except if disk speed is a factor, of course, which I doubt.
I should add that there's also a message in dmesg output which is :

Code:

platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: using built-in firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin

So I guess I'm OK there.
I wonder if it has to do with the following messages :

Code:

[drm] not detecting due to 00000004

**agd5f** · 11-16-2009, 10:17 AM

TV dac load detection is unreliable on some rs4xx chips and as recently disabled as it often results in false positives:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kerne...36a87c94b340da
The console issue is due to a tv being detected as connected. If your card does not have a tv-out connector, let me know and post (lspci -vnn) and I'll add a quirk for your card.

**rvdboom** · 11-16-2009, 10:50 AM

Here we go :

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge [1002:5950] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1013 Notebook [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
	I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
	Memory behind bridge: fbe00000-fbefffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
	Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
	Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]

00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4374] (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4374]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
	Memory at fbdfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4375] (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller [1002:4375]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
	Memory at fbdfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller [1002:4373] (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller [1002:4373]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
	Memory at fbdff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller [1002:4372] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1013 Notebook [1462:0131]
	Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
	I/O ports at c800 [size=16]
	Memory at fbdfc400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+

00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller [1002:4376] (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1013 Notebook [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
	I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
	I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]
	Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp

00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge [1002:4377]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge [1002:4371] (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=64
	I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
	Memory behind bridge: fbf00000-fbffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 60000000-69ffffff

00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller [1002:4370] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1013 Notebook [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
	Memory at fbdfc800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: [40] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Kernel driver in use: ATI IXP AC97 controller

00:14.6 Modem [0703]: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller [1002:4378] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1013 Notebook [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
	Memory at fbdfcc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: [40] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Kernel driver in use: ATI IXP MC97 controller

00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
	Flags: fast devsel
	Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
	Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
	Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
	Flags: fast devsel
	Kernel driver in use: k8temp

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) [1002:5955] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1013 Notebook [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
	Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
	Memory at fbef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Expansion ROM at fbec0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Kernel driver in use: radeon

02:03.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1013 Notebook [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
	I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
	Memory at fbfffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Expansion ROM at 68000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Kernel driver in use: 8139too

02:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev ac)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 19
	Memory at fbf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 60000000-63fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 6c000000-6ffff000
	I/O window 0: 0000e000-0000e0ff
	I/O window 1: 0000e400-0000e4ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
	Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus

02:04.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev ac)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 20
	Memory at fbf01000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=02, secondary=04, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 64000000-67fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 70000000-73fff000
	I/O window 0: 0000ec00-0000ecff
	I/O window 1: 00001000-000010ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
	Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus

02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0131]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
	Memory at fbfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
	Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci

02:09.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI [1814:0201] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown 802.11g mini-PCI Adapter [1462:6833]
	Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
	Memory at fbffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
	Kernel driver in use: rt2500pci

Thanks for the feedback!

**agd5f** · 11-16-2009, 10:51 AM

Does your card have a tv-out connector or not?

**rvdboom** · 11-16-2009, 10:55 AM

Sorry, overlooked that.
No, I don't see any such output connector on the laptop.

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