Black screen with AMD A4-3300 support

Black screen with AMD A4-3300 support

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

Hi,

I have a new ASUS K53TA notebook with AMD A4-3300 CPU
and an extra Radeon HD6550M. I installed Fedora 16 on it but
I get only black screen even during installation unless booted
with nomodeset. But it's only VESA so there's no acceleration
and there's no native LCD 1366x768 resolution, only 1024x768,
so it's a bit blurry.

The machine boots up and I can login via ssh so I can debug it.
dmesg and Xorg.0.log says the integrated video is recognized
and handled. Only the screen is black. dmesg says something
about not being able to determine initial brightness setting.

Can anyone help me to get it to display X with KMS?

Thanks in advance,
Zoltán Böszörményi

Re: Black screen with AMD A4-3300 support

[Joshua Roys]

On 12/13/2011 06:49 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> I have a new ASUS K53TA notebook with AMD A4-3300 CPU
> and an extra Radeon HD6550M. I installed Fedora 16 on it but
> I get only black screen even during installation unless booted
> with nomodeset. But it's only VESA so there's no acceleration
> and there's no native LCD 1366x768 resolution, only 1024x768,
> so it's a bit blurry.
>

Hello,

Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753518 .  (The HP 
G4-1215DX also has a AMD A4-3300.)  After making the f16 kernel work, I 
ended up installing a f17/rawhide kernel from 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 to fix other 
bugs, which will probably be the easiest solution for you.  I would be 
interested to hear if, after installing a newer kernel, suspend/resume 
worked for you.

Good luck,

Josh

Re: Black screen with AMD A4-3300 support

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

2011-12-13 14:03 keltezéssel, Joshua Roys írta:
> On 12/13/2011 06:49 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> I have a new ASUS K53TA notebook with AMD A4-3300 CPU
>> and an extra Radeon HD6550M. I installed Fedora 16 on it but
>> I get only black screen even during installation unless booted
>> with nomodeset. But it's only VESA so there's no acceleration
>> and there's no native LCD 1366x768 resolution, only 1024x768,
>> so it's a bit blurry.
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753518 .  (The HP G4-1215DX also
> has a AMD A4-3300.)  After making the f16 kernel work, I ended up installing a
> f17/rawhide kernel from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 to
> fix other bugs, which will probably be the easiest solution for you.

YES! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :-) Now I have KMS.

>   I would be interested to hear if, after installing a newer kernel, suspend/resume
> worked for you.

No, that doesn't work. I mean suspend works but not resume.
There are a lot of reports in dmesg that looks like an Oops.
Where should I report it? Here on the list or in RHBZ?

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

Re: Black screen with AMD A4-3300 support

[Alex Deucher]

2011/12/14 Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu>:
> 2011-12-13 14:03 keltezéssel, Joshua Roys írta:
>> On 12/13/2011 06:49 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>>> I have a new ASUS K53TA notebook with AMD A4-3300 CPU
>>> and an extra Radeon HD6550M. I installed Fedora 16 on it but
>>> I get only black screen even during installation unless booted
>>> with nomodeset. But it's only VESA so there's no acceleration
>>> and there's no native LCD 1366x768 resolution, only 1024x768,
>>> so it's a bit blurry.
>>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753518 .  (The HP G4-1215DX also
>> has a AMD A4-3300.)  After making the f16 kernel work, I ended up installing a
>> f17/rawhide kernel from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 to
>> fix other bugs, which will probably be the easiest solution for you.
>
> YES! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :-) Now I have KMS.
>
>>   I would be interested to hear if, after installing a newer kernel, suspend/resume
>> worked for you.
>
> No, that doesn't work. I mean suspend works but not resume.
> There are a lot of reports in dmesg that looks like an Oops.
> Where should I report it? Here on the list or in RHBZ?

Please file a bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org
and select DRI, then DRM/Radeon.

Alex

Re: Black screen with AMD A4-3300 support

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

2011-12-14 15:02 keltezéssel, Alex Deucher írta:
> 2011/12/14 Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu>:
>> 2011-12-13 14:03 keltezéssel, Joshua Roys írta:
>>> On 12/13/2011 06:49 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>>>> I have a new ASUS K53TA notebook with AMD A4-3300 CPU
>>>> and an extra Radeon HD6550M. I installed Fedora 16 on it but
>>>> I get only black screen even during installation unless booted
>>>> with nomodeset. But it's only VESA so there's no acceleration
>>>> and there's no native LCD 1366x768 resolution, only 1024x768,
>>>> so it's a bit blurry.
>>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753518 .  (The HP G4-1215DX also
>>> has a AMD A4-3300.)  After making the f16 kernel work, I ended up installing a
>>> f17/rawhide kernel from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 to
>>> fix other bugs, which will probably be the easiest solution for you.
>> YES! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :-) Now I have KMS.
>>
>>>   I would be interested to hear if, after installing a newer kernel, suspend/resume
>>> worked for you.
>> No, that doesn't work. I mean suspend works but not resume.
>> There are a lot of reports in dmesg that looks like an Oops.
>> Where should I report it? Here on the list or in RHBZ?
> Please file a bug:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org
> and select DRI, then DRM/Radeon.
>
> Alex

Done, bug #43829

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi