BSD+Radeon

[Ashcrow]

I installed a new Radeon (yay!) in my OpenBSD box and went a head and reinstalled the OS and now it's going nuts. It boots up fine, but when it gets to the part where it recognizes the video card it see's it is a Radeon and then the screen splits in two and mirrors it self. Sometimes it buffes itself and I can only see what I type after I hit enter about 100 times to get that far down. Anyone know of any problems with the console drivers on Open/NetBSD? FreeBSD?

Could you post your dmesg?

[Ashcrow]

mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(49) BIOS, date 08/22/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb450
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xb8d0
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfded0/144 (7 entries)
pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum
pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 7 Interrupt Routing table entries
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 9 10 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("AMD 756 PCI-ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD 751 System Controller" rev 0x23
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD 751 PCI-PCI" rev 0x01
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "ATI AIW Radeon" rev 0x00 // <== 
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "AMD 756 PCI-ISA" rev 0x01
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "AMD 756 IDE" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 
configured to compatibility, channel 1 $wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: 
<QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX20.5>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 19609MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 40160988 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SAMSUNG, DVD-ROM SD-606F, 1.2> SCSI0 5/cdrom 
removable
atapiscsi1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1
scsibus1 at atapiscsi1: 2 targets
cd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <ATAPI, CD-R/RW 10X8X32, 8.EZ> SCSI0 5/cdrom 
removable
pciide0:1:1: multi-word DMA disabled due to chip revision
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4
cd1(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4
"AMD 756 Power Mgmt" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured
ohci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 4 "AMD 756 USB Host" rev 0x06: irq 9, OHCI 
version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 0 ports with 0 removable, self powered
"Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live" rev 0x06 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not 
configured
dc0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "ADMtek AN983" rev 0x11: irq 10 address 
00:04:5a:57:b3:02
ukphy0 at dc0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x000895, model 0x0001, rev. 0
dc1 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "ADMtek AN983" rev 0x11: irq 11 address 
00:04:5a:57:b1:b0
ukphy1 at dc1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy1: OUI 0x000895, model 0x0001, rev. 0
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask c240 netmask ce40 ttymask dec2
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302

[Ashcrow]

The ATI AIW Radeon doesn't *seem* like the reight driver. In fact before it gets loaded the console works without a hitch ... I just can't seem to disable it or find any mention of a bug/solution.

I say get ab<nother card. ATI support for Linux is below mediocre. I guess putting it in a OpenBSD box would be a total waste. Get your money back and get a nvidia TNT2 which is a very decent card and works great on a lot of OS'es.

[Ashcrow]

I went ahead and transfered the box's content to an older box with a Rage card and it works fine. Oddly enough, NetBSD doesn't have the same problem probing for console drivers dealing with ATI ... but their in house build of X is almost as bad as FreeBSD's!