From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265181AbUBOTxM (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:53:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265178AbUBOTxM (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:53:12 -0500 Received: from [217.7.64.198] ([217.7.64.198]:39302 "EHLO mx1.net4u.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265188AbUBOTwx (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:52:53 -0500 From: Ernst Herzberg Reply-To: earny@net4u.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:52:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 Cc: Peter Osterlund , Benjamin Herrenschmidt References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402152052.50596.earny@net4u.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sonntag, 15. Februar 2004 10:17, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > o New radeonfb > > o Fix a link conflict between radeonfb and the radeon DRI > > o Fix incorrect kfree in radeonfb > > It doesn't seem to work on my x86 laptop. The screen goes black when > the framebuffer is enabled early in the boot sequence. The machine > boots normally anyway and I can log in from the network or log in > blindly at the console. I can then start the X server which appears to > work correctly, but switching back to a console still gives me a black > screen. Running "setfont" doesn't fix it. Here is what dmesg reports > when running 2.6.3-rc3: Looks like the same problem on a desktop: Mobo Asus A7V8X-X: earny:~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600] (Secondary) Never tried this machine with kernel older than 2.6.2. FB VESA works fine. If i use ATI Radeon (does'n matter old or new) the screen goes dark until i start X. With the new driver i found in dmesg: [...] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x31a [...] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' radeonfb: cannot map FB SBF: Simple Boot Flag extension found and enabled. SBF: Setting boot flags 0x1 [....] Compile warnings with new driver: [...] drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c: In function `radeon_probe_pll_params': drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c:474: warning: `xtal' might be used uninitialized in this function drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c: In function `radeon_screen_blank': drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c:944: warning: `val2' might be used uninitialized in this function drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c: In function `radeonfb_setcolreg': drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c:1025: warning: `vclk_cntl' might be used uninitialized in this function CC net/sunrpc/timer.o drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c: In function `radeon_calc_pll_regs': drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c:1319: warning: `pll_output_freq' might be used uninitialized in this function [...] ~Earny