Radeon Mobility X700 not working

[Aaron Dewell]

Amazing, that.  Worked like a charm with LVDS,NONE.  :)

So if I set it to LVDS, CRT it will use the DVI port?  The mind
boggles.  :)  I'll try the patch when I have the external monitor
connected next (when not on the road).

Thanks!

Aaron

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:29 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> That's a known problem on the Ferrari laptops - the monitor detection
> finds the VGA & DVI ports and then gives up before setting up the internal
> panel.
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5473 describes this, has a 
> workaround (MonitorLayout "LVDS, NONE"), and the patch one of our driver
> guys at Sun came up with to fix the autodetection on these laptops.
> 
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
> 
> Aaron Dewell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm having some problems getting X11R7 to work again on my laptop.  I was
> > using the ATI proprietary driver before, but they support nothing since 6.8,
> > and keeping that version requires doing weird things to Debian, not getting
> > newer packages of almost everything, etc.  And I've already upgraded, and the
> > Debian archive doesn't have 6.8 anymore. :)
> > 
> > So I'd like to get the included radeon driver working, and I'm happy to do
> > any testing.  I'd offer to code for it, but I'm almost useless with low
> > level coding (one brief attempt at a SCSI driver several years ago that took
> > someone else to get it finally working :).
> > 
> > The server starts normally, with no truly indicative log messages, but produces
> > a black screen.  When I have dual head configured, with TMDS,LVDS, it produces
> > odd results, but at least I see something on the internal screen (but
> > jittery and multiple copies).  The only scary log message is that DRI is
> > disabled due to failure to open /dev/drm/card0, which occasionally is there
> > during some of my attempts (I haven't been concentrating on that issue, assuming
> > the basics would work with or without DRI).
> > 
> > AMD Turion64, ATI Mobility X700 (it's an acer ferrari 4000, for the rest of the
> > hardware information)
> > 
> > I'm not sure what else is useful, I'm happy to provide anything that would be
> > helpful.  As I said, I'm happy to test new code, or take any suggestions as to
> > the next step.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > Aaron
> > 
> > P.S.  Here is the lspci -v output for the card:
> > 
> > 
> > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > 	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 007e
> > 	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 10
> > 	Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > 	I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
> > 	Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > 	Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> > 	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> > 	Capabilities: [58] #10 [0001]
> > 	Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
> > 
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