[ltp] Z61m, ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400, Debian Sid

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, Gijs Hillenius wrote:
>> Debian Sid today is making life hard for my Xorg server.
>
> You _need_ KMS, which means you're already in deep crap, as that thing
> is anything but complete, performant and stable at this time. =A0 A major
> regression for anyone that had extremely stable and "good enough" Radeon
> support...
>
> You will have to use either the Debian kernel/kernel sources, or
> upstream 2.6.35.11 (or newer).
>
> The X1400 is a PCIe device, isn't it? agpmode shouldn't matter.

Correct.

>
> FWIW, 2.6.35.11 + Debian Squeeze, KMS enabled, _all power management
> disabled_ is stable on a Radeon X300 (T43). =A0 Enable automatic GPU powe=
r
> management, and you get unknown NMIs when it switches power management
> profiles (i.e. the driver is causing the GPU to mess the PCIe bus).

These are caused by changing the pcie link size (e.g., 16x -> 1x) to
save power.  I'm not sure how to avoid them.  You can disable the
relevant code in the driver, but the link changes should be safe.

Alex

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