[PATCH] Radeon driver fixes

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Nov 12 17:22:32 PST 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 01:08 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:29:05PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Here's a new version of the patch, changing the option to "VGAAccess",
> > and setting it OFF by default on PowerPC and ON by default on all other
> > archs (which mean it should do the right thing in most cases now). The
> > best would be to have a way to detect wether the card was actually in
> > a VGA mode without touching the VGA registers ... and based on that
> > decide wether to touch them or not... Is that possible at all ?
> 
> Tested this patch on my albook (PowerBook5,2 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10).
> Dualhead works nicely now :)
> 
> I've been testing the xvideo overlay. When running in clone mode, the overlay
> on the second head only works when the lcd is in it's native resolution. But
> unfortunately the panel has some ugly lines on it then, looks like a timing
> thing.  When not running in cloning mode the overlay on the second head only
> works in 24 bit dept, not in 16.

What do you mean by "ulgy lines" when running in native resolution ? can
you be more explicit ? Is this related to overlay or happens in
general ? Have you tried option "LVDSProbePLL" "true" in your Device
section ? (My patch adds this option to help with the panels who need a
specific timing, though I may decide to make it default to true on LVDS
flat panels when there is no BIOS infos ...)

> Also the first time i started the patched Xorg, the second head had very wrong
> colours. But i can't reproduce that anymore..

Hrm... I though I had fixed that ...

> Thanks for your work ! It's making me very happy :)
> 
>   Sjoerd
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>




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