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JayK (jakres) wrote : no usable Xorg configuration in Jaunty for rt-kernel with ATI HD2600XT

Binary package hint: xorg

I upgraded to Jaunty recently and wanted to try the realtime kernel now, if it still works. It does not: neither with fglrx nor with radeonhd nor with ati nor with vesa I get a usable X display with login screen. When the Xserver is started, all of the named drivers give me a black screen, sometimes with fragmentations in the upper region of the screen (it is a notebook panel), and I cannot do anything. No visible reaction to mouse, keyboard or even the power button. No switching to ttys is possible (Ctrl+Alt+F1...F6), neither is AltGr+Break+K able to kill it. Only chance is to hold the latter for 5 seconds to force the power off instantly.

Most promising so far was fgrlx which once gave me a black and white tiled screen, a white square for the mouse cursor and the gdm sound, but login was not possible because the keyboard didn't seem to react.

The xfix option in the recovery menu yielded the same locked up black screen.

It works all-fine with the standard kernel, fglrx currently in use; but realtime 2.6.28-3-rt is screwed up.
My card is, according to Linux, a ATI Radeon HD2600XT (probably Mobility, according to the chipset recognized by radeonhd).

linux-image-rt 2.6.28.3.1
xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 1.2.4-2
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2
xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.0.0-1ubuntu6

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686