Re: Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v: flicker in 1920x1080

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: "Deucher, Alexander" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"Maling list - DRI developers" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v: flicker in 1920x1080
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 22:09:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151103220919.GA4824@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADnq5_MoThbrDADBHBRXiEGWC8jukwOLyfjfX9-7d0fB0kbpMA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

> >> >4.3-rc7 kernel, graphics works reasonably well in 1600x1200 mode. But
> >> >my monitor is native 1920x1080, so that mode looks pretty ugly on
> >> >screen. If I go to 1920x1080, I see colored horizontal lines (often
> >> >black) as soon as there's graphics activity.
> >> >
> >> >pavel@half:~$ xrandr
> >> >Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
> >> >VGA-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
> >> >axis) 478mm x 268mm
> >> >    1920x1080     60.00*+
> >> >       1600x1200     60.00
> >> >          1680x1050     59.95
> >> >         1280x1024     75.02    60.02
> >> >            1440x900      59.89
> >> >               1024x768      75.08    60.00
> >> >                  800x600       75.00    60.32
> >> >                     640x480       75.00    60.00
> >> >                        720x400       70.08
> >> >  pavel@half:~$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200
> >> >  pavel@half:~$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080
> >> >  pavel@half:~$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200
> >> >

> >> >Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Alex probably knows more about this, but it sounds like problems with
> >> switching the memory clocks on 3D load.
> >
> >> Try to disable power management completely with radeon.dpm=0 on the kernel
> >> command line or nailing the hardware at a specific power level using
> >> sysfs.
> >
> > I tried that, but it still flickers.
> 
> It's probably pll stability.  There seem to be a number of regressions
> since the pll code was rewritten to support matching the hdmi clocks
> more closely.  Does this patch help?
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
> index dac78ad..b86f06a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
> @@ -569,6 +569,8 @@ static u32 atombios_adjust_pll(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>         radeon_crtc->pll_flags = 0;
> 
>         if (ASIC_IS_AVIVO(rdev)) {
> +               radeon_crtc->pll_flags |= RADEON_PLL_PREFER_MINM_OVER_MAXP;
> +
>                 if ((rdev->family = CHIP_RS600) ||
>                     (rdev->family = CHIP_RS690) ||
>                     (rdev->family = CHIP_RS740))
>

Help.. maybe... it is tricky to tell. It definitely does _not_ fix the
issue completely.

> Unfortunately, it can't be applied as is because we had a similar
> patch which was reverted because it regressed a bunch of other
> systems.  The actual pll limits probably need to be tweaked.

Any ideas how to tweak the pll limits?

Thanks,
								Pavel
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