From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: dirty artefacts on bootup Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:05:12 +1100 Message-ID: <1133903112.7168.50.camel@gaston> References: <1133871927.5595.8.camel@noti> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ejk7v-0007PE-9s for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:13:31 -0800 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1Ejk7t-0003hd-JD for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:13:31 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1133871927.5595.8.camel@noti> Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dirk Henning Gerdes Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:25 +0100, Dirk Henning Gerdes wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > I'm using the radeon framebuffer driver on a sony-notebook with a radeon > 9200 mobile. > > During bootup I get dirty artefacts on the screen. > It's hard to explain. The text first is clear on the screen, but then > there come so many dirty lines on top of it, that you cannot read > anything. > When the xserver is started, the problem is away. switching to a console > with [Alt][CTRL][F1] works perfectly. And then you can read the text > normally. > > I have compiled the driver with the debug-option, which brought the > following output. > I'm not quite sur, if this can help, because I got it, when the console > worked after starting X. > > [ 148.839846] hStart = 1040, hEnd = 1176, hTotal = 1344 > [ 148.839851] vStart = 770, vEnd = 776, vTotal = 806 > [ 148.839855] h_total_disp = 0x7f00ync_strt_wid = 0x11040a > [ 148.839858] v_total_disp = 0x2ff0325noti login: [ 148.839846] hStart > = 1040, hEnd = 1176, hTotal = 1344 > [ 148.839851] vStart = 770, vEnd = 776, vTotal = 806 > [ 148.839855] h_total_disp = 0x7f00a7ync_strt_wid = 0x60301 > [ 148.839860] pixclock = 15384 > [ 148.839862] freq = 6500 > > Is there anything I can do to get this dirty lines away? Not sure yet. It seems to only happen on machine I have no access to, so I haven't been able to properly figure it out at this point. Ben. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click