Bug#504535: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Freeze in 24bit and 16bit fullscreen (Radeon Mobility M6 LY)

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sylvain Beucler <beuc at beuc.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:40:55PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
>> Alex Deucher wrote:
>> > Looks like we already have a quirk for this system.  It should be
>> > handled properly in newer versions of the driver.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Sylvain,
>>
>> We have radeon driver 6.10.99.0 in experimental, but you'll have to
>> upgrade many Xorg packages to get it.
>>
>> I have rebuilt it for Lenny on i386, the packages are available at
>>   http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/ati-6.10.99.0-Xserver1.4/
>>
>> Please try one of the above after removing AGPMode from your xorg.conf,
>> see what AGPMode the log now reports and whether it still freezes.
>
> I installed 'xserver-xorg-videon-radeon' (not sure about other
> packages).
>
> Logs:
>
> (==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 2x
>
> [ 4807.987333] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> [ 4807.987333] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 2x mode
> [ 4807.987333] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 2x mode
> [ 4808.323975] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> [ 4808.323975] [drm] Loading R100 Microcode
> [ 4808.323975] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
>
> The new 'radeon' driver correctly detects 2x. It doesn't seem to
> freeze.
>
> However, full-screen 640x480 mode is now a small display centered in
> the full 1024x768 screen. Before it really switched resolution to
> cover the full screen.

The scaling should default to full rather then center.  Can attach the
output of xrandr --verbose?

Alex