[Xorg-driver-geode] Geode LX / ThinCan / General Software BIOS - DDC failing / no EDID info

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Fri Jan 18 07:51:26 PST 2008


On 18/01/08 12:59 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On 1/17/08, Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> wrote:
> > On 17/01/08 14:48 -0500, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> > > I got back to looking at why we get no EDID info from some units with
> > > General Software BIOS.  I am trying to debug why this is happening.
> > >
> > > I would love for someone that knows DDC/EDID to suggest things to try at
> > > this point.
> > >
> > > It was mentioned to me in passing that there is a chance that the serial
> > > port could be wired on the same pins that are responsible for the
> > > DDC/EDID data.  If that is the case, is there an /easy/ way to find out
> > > if that has been done on this unit?
> >
> > Try this:
> > http://dev.laptop.org/~jcrouse/gpio-tool.c
> >
> > If you run it as root, it should show the state of all of the GPIO pins.
> > You're looking for IN_AUX1 to _not_ be set on GPIO3, and OUT_AUX1 and
> > OUT_AUX2 to _not_ be set on GPIO4.  Section 3.2.8 in the 5536 spec has a
> > table that explains this.
> 
> Quite nifty tool! The table this tool prints shows two parts:  LOW and
> HIGH.  Which one is relevant to us?

Sorry - LOW are pins 0-15 and HIGH are 16-31.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.




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