AMD 780G, anyone?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 10:41:28 PDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Magnus Hörlin <magnus at alefors.se> wrote:
>
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Magnus Hörlin <magnus at alefors.se> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > michael lang wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  > export ACLOCAL="aclocal -I/usr/X11R6/share/aclocal"
> > >  >
> > >  >
> > >
> > >  I reinstalled from scratch and managed to compile and get radeon
> running
> > >  but only on VGA. HDMI was black but everything looked normal in the log
> > >  file (even though it's 240kB) and it could read edid on hdmi. When I
> > >  connected VGA, there was my desktop. Is there any way to force HDMI in
> > >  xorg.xonf or is there something wrong here? And I couldn't get XVideo
> to
> > >  work so I guess that's not implemented yet, or is it?
> > >  Anyway, thanks for all the work you guys put into this. Now I guess
> I'll
> > >  just have to wait a bit longer until radeon or radeonhd supports xv on
> > >  HDMI on this board.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Well, I wrote the code without an RS780, so the only confirmation I
> > have is from people testing it.  If you can send me your log, I'll
> > take a look and see if I can see anything wrong and maybe provide you
> > with some patches for testing.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
>  Thanks Alex. I've been too busy to work on this but finally I found time to
> give it another try. With this two-day old driver HDMI output works just
> fine on my 780G board. The only problem is that I need XVideo and I don't
> get it with this driver yet. I guess this line in the log says it all:
>  (WW) RADEON(0): Option "TexturedVideo" is not used
>  Keep up the good work.

yeah, no textured video until we get acceleration up and running on
r6xx.  Should be soon though.  I'm finishing up the r6xx documentation
now.

Alex


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