Total radeonfb failure on both 2.6.0-test4 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4

Total radeonfb failure on both 2.6.0-test4 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4

[Petr Baudis]

  Hello,

  so I've enthusiastically tried to boot up 2.6.0-test4 even outside of UML,
however I've been hit hard by radeonfb - there're not even slighest signs of it
working. Regardless on the video mode I choose on the command line, setting the
mode fails and I end up with the display showing the BIOS POST screen (that one
with energy star logo in corner, BIOS blabbering smt about disks and so on)
covered with odd-coloured vertical lines. At the top of the screen is something
like the classic textmode stains (red dots grouped to lines; reminded me of the
days of turbopascal ;) and in the top few lines white points which actually
moved around and changed as stuff was been virtually printed onto the screen.

  So it looks like the driver got the video RAM coordinates a bit wrong and it
writes stuff into a wrong place - or it forgot to move the frame to point to
where it should (or whatever, I can't say I understand the video stuff newer
than 1996 a lot ;).

  I have ATI Radeon 7000 w/ 64M RAM and TV output (unused). The driver
announces itself as:

Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeonfb_pci_register BEGIN
Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=14300 from BIOS
Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeonfb: probed SDR SGRAM 65536k videoram
Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeon_get_moninfo: bios 4 scratch = 2000002
Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeonfb: ATI Radeon VE QY SDR SGRAM 64 MB
Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeonfb: DVI port no monitor connected
Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeonfb: CRT port CRT monitor connected
Aug 30 23:49:45 machine kernel: radeonfb_pci_register END

  If you need any further additional info, please let me know.

  It appears that the 2.6 driver is essentially the old one, without Ben's
patch (which fixed framebuffer for me on 2.4). Is there a version of this
updated driver for 2.6 as well? Is there any reason why it is not integrated
yet?

  Thanks in advance,

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Re: Total radeonfb failure on both 2.6.0-test4 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>   It appears that the 2.6 driver is essentially the old one, without Ben's
> patch (which fixed framebuffer for me on 2.4). Is there a version of this
> updated driver for 2.6 as well? Is there any reason why it is not integrated
> yet?

I'm working on a new driver for 2.6 that include my 2.4 updates, a
slightly reworked version of Kronos and Jon i2c DDC code and some
more source cleanup (split the driver in separate files actually).

It's not finished yet though. I'm not yet sure I'll add support for
dual head in the first version neither, all of this pretty much depends
on how much time I'll be able to dedicate to it during the upcoming
week.

Ben.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Re: Total radeonfb failure on both 2.6.0-test4 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >   It appears that the 2.6 driver is essentially the old one, without Ben's
> > patch (which fixed framebuffer for me on 2.4). Is there a version of this
> > updated driver for 2.6 as well? Is there any reason why it is not integrated
> > yet?
> 
> I'm working on a new driver for 2.6 that include my 2.4 updates, a
> slightly reworked version of Kronos and Jon i2c DDC code and some
> more source cleanup (split the driver in separate files actually).
> 
> It's not finished yet though. I'm not yet sure I'll add support for
> dual head in the first version neither, all of this pretty much depends
> on how much time I'll be able to dedicate to it during the upcoming
> week.

What about `release early, release often', and add the dual-head support after
your first release? ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Re: Total radeonfb failure on both 2.6.0-test4 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

 
> > I'm working on a new driver for 2.6 that include my 2.4 updates, a
> > slightly reworked version of Kronos and Jon i2c DDC code and some
> > more source cleanup (split the driver in separate files actually).
> > 
> > It's not finished yet though. I'm not yet sure I'll add support for
> > dual head in the first version neither, all of this pretty much depends
> > on how much time I'll be able to dedicate to it during the upcoming
> > week.
> 
> What about `release early, release often', and add the dual-head support after
> your first release? ;-)

Yup, I'll probably do just that, but still, there is work to get
to the first release...

Ben.