[PATCH] Radeon driver fixes

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at luon.net
Sat Nov 13 05:04:31 PST 2004


On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:22:32PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 01:08 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:29:05PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Here's a new version of the patch, changing the option to "VGAAccess",
> > > and setting it OFF by default on PowerPC and ON by default on all other
> > > archs (which mean it should do the right thing in most cases now). The
> > > best would be to have a way to detect wether the card was actually in
> > > a VGA mode without touching the VGA registers ... and based on that
> > > decide wether to touch them or not... Is that possible at all ?
> > 
> > Tested this patch on my albook (PowerBook5,2 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10).
> > Dualhead works nicely now :)
> > 
> > I've been testing the xvideo overlay. When running in clone mode, the overlay
> > on the second head only works when the lcd is in it's native resolution. But
> > unfortunately the panel has some ugly lines on it then, looks like a timing
> > thing.  When not running in cloning mode the overlay on the second head only
> > works in 24 bit dept, not in 16.
> 
> What do you mean by "ulgy lines" when running in native resolution ? can
> you be more explicit ? Is this related to overlay or happens in
> general ? Have you tried option "LVDSProbePLL" "true" in your Device
> section ? (My patch adds this option to help with the panels who need a
> specific timing, though I may decide to make it default to true on LVDS
> flat panels when there is no BIOS infos ...)

It's only when the panel and the second head (crt monitor) run on the panels
native resolution. The lines are horizontal flickering lines which slowly move
up. They seem to be there especially on the right of a window.

This is with LVDSProbePLL set to true. A closer look in my xorg log file
indicates that the server notes the second head doesn't support the resolution
and turns off MergeFB. But i still have an image on both heads. 

I've put my logfile at http://fire.luon.net/~sjoerd/Xorg.1.log 

  Sjoerd
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