[Bug 17214] New: Radeon M6 / fail to detected the screen on PowerBook3,3

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17214

           Summary: Radeon M6 / fail to detected the screen on PowerBook3,3
           Product: xorg
           Version: 7.3
          Platform: Other
               URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-
                    video-ati/+bug/220887
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/Radeon
        AssignedTo: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: bryce at bryceharrington.org
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Created an attachment (id=18398)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=18398)
Patch that fixes -ati for the Powerbook3,3

Forwarding this Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/220887

Logs / Config Files:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13833567/xorg.conf
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13833579/Xorg.0.log.old-Radeon-no-connected-devices-found.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13833584/Xorg.0.log-working-wrong-resolution-with-ext-lcd.txt


On a Powerbook3,3, X crashes with error "(EE) RADEON(0): No connected devices
found!"  When an external LCD is plugged into the VGA out, X comes up on the
laptop panel, but at the wrong resolution, and the external monitor remains
black.

"It turns out that setting the MacModel option to "powerbook-internal" and
specifying horizontal and vertical refresh settings (grabbed from Ubuntu 7.1)
in xorg.conf gets my powerbook3,3 up and running, although there is an ugly ~5
seconds as X is starting during which the screen is filled with green lines
that refresh like an old television. I created a patch to the radeon driver
that makes the configuration for powerbook3,3's built-in lcd the same as as for
powerbook-internal models. The external output was also getting configured
incorrectly by the radeon driver (it is a VGA output, but it was getting
configured as DVI), so I changed that in the patch too. Rebooting with a VGA
monitor attached sort of works. The driver picks a reasonable resolution and
color depth for the VGA monitor, displays the default desktop background, but
mirrors the GNOME toolbars and desktop icons from the laptop's lcd on the upper
left 1152x768 pixels of the screen (that is the resolution of the built-in
lcd). Don't know how to fix that problem.

The patch is against Ubuntu's latest release of xserver-xorg-video-ati for
Hardy."


It looks like the change for BiosConnector[0] is already in git, however the
changes for BiosConnector[1] weren't; is this patch sane?


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