HDMI video on HP ProBook 4525s doesn't work

Wed Feb 9 08:50:14 PST 2011

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Martin Kielhorn
<kielhorn.martin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> I run into issues with the radeon (as well as the radeonhd) driver.
> I hooked up a screen with a HDMI->DVI cable but the screen doesn't
> show a picture.
>
> The notebook displays an image on the external DVI screen in Windows 7.
>
> To me it seems that at least some communication from the screen to the graphics
> card works. But no image signal is sent from the graphics card to the screen.
>

You are using UMS.  UMS does not support the HDMI port on rs780/rs880
systems.  You need to use KMS.

Alex

> Regards, Martin
>
>
> And here is some more information:
>
> martin at hop:~$ uname -a
> Linux hop 2.6.37-rc3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 26 08:16:21 GMT 2010
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> martin at hop:~$ sudo lspci -v -s 01:05.0
> [sudo] password for martin:
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G
> [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 142c
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
>        Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>        I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
>        Memory at d4300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>        Memory at d4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
>        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>
> martin at hop:~$ xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1280x1024; xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 1024, maximum 1366 x 1366
> VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 344mm x 194mm
>   1366x768       60.0*+
>   1280x720       59.9
>   1152x768       59.8
>   1024x768       59.9
>   800x600        59.9
>   640x480        59.4
> HDMI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
> axis) 338mm x 270mm
>   1280x1024      60.0*+
>   1280x960       60.0
>   1152x864       75.0
>   1024x768       75.0     70.1     60.0
>   832x624        74.6
>   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
>   640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     59.9
>   720x400        70.1
>
> some parts of /var/log/Xorg.0.log that seem interesting:
> [...]
> (--) PCI:*(0:1:5:0) 1002:9712:103c:142c ATI Technologies Inc M880G
> [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] rev 0, Mem @ 0xc0000000/268435456,
> 0xd4300000/65536, 0xd4200000/1048576, I/O @ 0x00005000/256
> [...]
> (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
> (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>        compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 6.14.99
>        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
> [...]
> (II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=10000 rd=12 min=90000 max=120000; xclk=40000
> (WW) RADEON(0): LVDS Info:
> XRes: 1366, YRes: 768, DotClock: 69300
> HBlank: 114, HOverPlus: 48, HSyncWidth: 32
> VBlank: 12, VOverPlus: 2, VSyncWidth: 5
> (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using monitor section aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "VGA-0" initialized.
> (II) RADEON(0): Output LVDS has no monitor section
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "LVDS" initialized.
> (II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 has no monitor section
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "HDMI-0" initialized.
> (II) RADEON(0): Port0:
>  XRANDR name: VGA-0
>  Connector: VGA
>  CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
>  DDC reg: 0x7e40
> (II) RADEON(0): Port1:
>  XRANDR name: LVDS
>  Connector: LVDS
>  LCD1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_LVTMA
>  DDC reg: 0x7e50
> (II) RADEON(0): Port2:
>  XRANDR name: HDMI-0
>  Connector: HDMI-A
>  DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY
>  DDC reg: 0x7e60
> [...]
> (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 3
> (II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on output: HDMI-0
> ----------------------
> (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: MEL  Model: 471e  Serial#: 16843009
> (II) RADEON(0): Year: 2005  Week: 30
> (II) RADEON(0): EDID Version: 1.3
> (II) RADEON(0): Digital Display Input
> (II) RADEON(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 34  vert.: 27
> (II) RADEON(0): Gamma: 2.20
> (II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
> (II) RADEON(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4
> (II) RADEON(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
> (II) RADEON(0): redX: 0.640 redY: 0.340   greenX: 0.290 greenY: 0.610
> (II) RADEON(0): blueX: 0.140 blueY: 0.070   whiteX: 0.310 whiteY: 0.330
> (II) RADEON(0): Supported established timings:
> (II) RADEON(0): 720x400 at 70Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480 at 60Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480 at 67Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480 at 72Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480 at 75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600 at 56Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600 at 60Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600 at 72Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600 at 75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 832x624 at 75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1024x768 at 60Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1024x768 at 70Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1024x768 at 75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1152x864 at 75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
> (II) RADEON(0): Supported standard timings:
> (II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 75  vid: 20337
> (II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 1280  vsize 960  refresh: 60  vid: 16513
> (II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1280  vsize 1024  refresh: 60  vid: 32897
> (II) RADEON(0): Supported detailed timing:
> (II) RADEON(0): clock: 108.0 MHz   Image Size:  338 x 270 mm
> (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1280  h_sync: 1328  h_sync_end 1440
> h_blank_end 1688 h_border: 0
> (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1024  v_sync: 1025  v_sync_end 1028
> v_blanking: 1066 v_border: 0
> (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 31 H max: 69
> kHz, PixClock max 115 MHz
> (II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: RDT1711S
> (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: 57105923TJ
> (II) RADEON(0): EDID (in hex):
> (II) RADEON(0):         00ffffffffffff0034ac1e4701010101
> (II) RADEON(0):         1e0f010380221b78eac5c6a3574a9c23
> (II) RADEON(0):         124f54bfee80714f8140818001010101
> (II) RADEON(0):         010101010101302a009851002a403070
> (II) RADEON(0):         1300520e1100001e000000fd00384b1f
> (II) RADEON(0):         450b000a202020202020000000fc0052
> (II) RADEON(0):         445431373131530a20202020000000ff
> (II) RADEON(0):         003537313035393233544a0a202000b5
> finished output detect: 2
> finished all detect
> [...]
>
>
> --
> Martin Kielhorn
> Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics
> King's College London, New Hunt's House
> Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL, U.K.
> tel: +44 (0) 207 848 6519,  fax: +44 (0) 207 848 6435
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