From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Henning Gerdes Subject: Re: dirty artefacts on bootup Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:12:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1134079947.5549.6.camel@home.sweethome> References: <1133871927.5595.8.camel@noti> <1133903112.7168.50.camel@gaston> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 1EkTzu-0004Y0-Fw for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:12:18 -0800 Received: from mail3.netbeat.de ([193.254.185.27]) by mail.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.44) id 1EkTzs-0003Tw-QU for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:12:18 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1133903112.7168.50.camel@gaston> 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="iso-8859-1" To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net I'm not familiar with the code of the driver, but if you had any hints, i would like to try them out. I have the suspicion, that there is something written to the registers which shouldn't. Is there any initialising function, that is called, when X starts ? We then could try to call it earlier during boot up. Dirk Am Mittwoch, den 07.12.2005, 08:05 +1100 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:25 +0100, Dirk Henning Gerdes wrote: > > Hi Benjamin, > >=20 > > I'm using the radeon framebuffer driver on a sony-notebook with a rad= eon > > 9200 mobile. > >=20 > > During bootup I get dirty artefacts on the screen.=20 > > 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 cons= ole > > with [Alt][CTRL][F1] works perfectly. And then you can read the text > > normally. > >=20 > > 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 conso= le > > worked after starting X. > >=20 > > [ 148.839846] hStart =3D 1040, hEnd =3D 1176, hTotal =3D 1344 > > [ 148.839851] vStart =3D 770, vEnd =3D 776, vTotal =3D 806 > > [ 148.839855] h_total_disp =3D 0x7f00ync_strt_wid =3D 0x11040a > > [ 148.839858] v_total_disp =3D 0x2ff0325noti login: [ 148.839846] h= Start > > =3D 1040, hEnd =3D 1176, hTotal =3D 1344 > > [ 148.839851] vStart =3D 770, vEnd =3D 776, vTotal =3D 806 > > [ 148.839855] h_total_disp =3D 0x7f00a7ync_strt_wid =3D 0x60301 > > [ 148.839860] pixclock =3D 15384 > > [ 148.839862] freq =3D 6500 > >=20 > > Is there anything I can do to get this dirty lines away? >=20 > Not sure yet. It seems to only happen on machine I have no access to, s= o > I haven't been able to properly figure it out at this point. >=20 > Ben. >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 Dirk Henning Gerdes B=F6nnersdyk 47 47803 Krefeld Tel: 02151-755745 0174-7776640 Mail: mail@dirk-gerdes.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log fi= les 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=3D7637&alloc_id=3D16865&op=3Dclick