From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266709AbUBQW4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:56:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266751AbUBQW4N (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:56:13 -0500 Received: from mail.networld.com ([209.63.232.103]:60685 "EHLO networld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266718AbUBQWxZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:53:25 -0500 Message-ID: <40329B57.9060901@networld.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:53:11 -0700 From: Charles Johnston User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, pt, es, ko, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc4 Massive strange corruption with new radeonfb References: <403274D2.4020407@networld.com> <1077055997.1076.23.camel@gaston> In-Reply-To: <1077055997.1076.23.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:08, Charles Johnston wrote: > >>Upon bootup, radeonfb is obviously not initializing the hardware >>correctly. Massive amounts of random-looking garbage, plus a weird >>effect I've never seen before, like someone pouring milk _up_ the >>screen. (Yeah, it's the best I could come up with) >> >>It's a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Mobile Radeon 9600 and 1920x1200 LCD. > > > Looks like the driver cannot find any info about your flat panel > in the BIOS ROM image. I suppose we can thank DELL for hacking the > BIOS in ways that aren't compatible with all others laptops... > > Can you try commenting out the call to radeon_map_ROM() and let it > look for the RAM based BIOS instead ? Let me know... > Ok, it worked fine with that line commented out. I can switch vt's, be in X, etc. no problems. The only issue I see is when I do a 'clear' on the vt, it doesn't clear the text, but blanks every nth row of pixels. Switching vt's and back clears the screen. There are also a few rows of garbage pixels at the bottom that linger across vt switches. Charles Johnston cjohnston@networld.com