"radeon: error initializing UVD" in kernel 3.10 on hybrid laptop with CEDAR / R600

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at web.de> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote, on 07/02/2013 21:46:
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at web.de> wrote:
>>> With self-compiled linux 3.10 on a HP Pavilion dv7 with hybrid graphics (ATI
>>> RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series] / ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400
>>> Series]) uvd seems to be broken.
>>>
>>> The new firware files are installed in /lib/firmware/radeon:
>>>
>>> sha1 hashes
>>> 3142a64061ade6032c95ed948c85b15dd0ae46be  CEDAR_me.bin
>>> a92856a4fa16926e2451a6335da7e20f01fde210  CEDAR_pfp.bin
>>> 644b29756636687ad31a49da4aa3ed85dcedecdb  CEDAR_rlc.bin
>>> 992d49518d3936986b5ce3ddb0d9bbd75135bb8f  CYPRESS_uvd.bin
>>> 3e04529600d666ddb2f2f83bb0112d4fab516c04  R600_rlc.bin
>>>
>>> The system boots without initial ram disk.
>>
>> Make sure your system is using the latest CEDAR_rlc.bin as well.
>>
>> Alex
>>
> Thanks for the hint, Alex. Actually I took the files today from your repository
> at http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ and checked them against
> the ones downloaded from
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git .

Make sure that your kernel is actually using the new ones.

Alex