radeon/r128 patches

David Stanaway david at stanaway.net
Thu Dec 23 13:07:55 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:35 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 14:35 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> > > My eyes are actually better off at 1280x1024 anyway, and the scale is
> > > more comparable with 1152x768 on the LCD anyway so it is no biggy. It
> > > could just be the monitor (I will see if it repeats with my Sony E500 at
> > > work).
> > 
> > It may be a bandwidth issue.  the mobility r128 perhaps can't quite
> > drive the display at that resolution or maybe the vga port hardware
> > wasn't designed to handle it.  Can MacOS handle it?
> 
> Either that, or it is a problem with the setting of the external TMDS
> transmitter...
> 
> If you set MacOS to that mode, so that the firmware does initialize the
> display to the highest resolution at boot, do you still get the noise ?


In Panther, the display is fine.

After rebooting from panther into linux, I get the same problem. It is
fairly minor really, and is related to areas of bright color on the
display.

For an example of what I see, check here:

http://sprocket.stanaway.net/~david/xorg/1600x1200-rain.png

The rain is highlighted with green markers.

This is with a sony CPD-E500 display. It is similar to what I was
getting with the apple blueberry 21", although on that, the rain was
more pronounced, and was not vertically aligned, but diagonally aligned.

-- 
David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net>



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