Display does not init

Syren Baran sbaran at gmx.de
Thu Sep 20 09:23:20 PDT 2007


Am Donnerstag, den 20.09.2007, 10:48 -0400 schrieb Alex Deucher:
> On 9/20/07, Syren Baran <sbaran at gmx.de> wrote:
> > on R580 (Chip 724B).
> > Well, some wierd confusing garbage to be precise.
> > So far i added the pciids and removed the MC_IDLE checking (the specs
> > for the R630 dont have an MC_IDLE, not even an MC_STATUS actually).
> >
> > Any hints for further hacking into the driver?
> >
> 
> the display engine on r5xx and r6xx chips is completely different from
> the older radeons.  you can't just add the pci ids.  all the registers
> have moved around and been reworked.  You are better off hacking on
> radeonhd or avivo.

Is there a mailing list for the avivo driver?
I cant seem to find appropriate list.

BTW, aside from a couple of pixels missing at the right and bottom avivo
seems to work nicely so far.
> 
> Alex

Syren



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