Radeon Mobility X700 not working

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/13/06, Aaron Dewell <aaron.dewell at woods.net> wrote:
>
> Amazing, that.  Worked like a charm with LVDS,NONE.  :)
>
> So if I set it to LVDS, CRT it will use the DVI port?  The mind
> boggles.  :)  I'll try the patch when I have the external monitor
> connected next (when not on the road).

LVDS+TMDS is not currently supported by the radeon driver.  you either
have to use may patch
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3621 which still has
issues and doesn't seem to work for that config quite yet), or the
hack described here:
http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/

Alex

>
> Thanks!
>
> Aaron
>
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:29 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > That's a known problem on the Ferrari laptops - the monitor detection
> > finds the VGA & DVI ports and then gives up before setting up the internal
> > panel.
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5473 describes this, has a
> > workaround (MonitorLayout "LVDS, NONE"), and the patch one of our driver
> > guys at Sun came up with to fix the autodetection on these laptops.
> >
> >       -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> >        Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
> >
> > Aaron Dewell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm having some problems getting X11R7 to work again on my laptop.  I was
> > > using the ATI proprietary driver before, but they support nothing since 6.8,
> > > and keeping that version requires doing weird things to Debian, not getting
> > > newer packages of almost everything, etc.  And I've already upgraded, and the
> > > Debian archive doesn't have 6.8 anymore. :)
> > >
> > > So I'd like to get the included radeon driver working, and I'm happy to do
> > > any testing.  I'd offer to code for it, but I'm almost useless with low
> > > level coding (one brief attempt at a SCSI driver several years ago that took
> > > someone else to get it finally working :).
> > >
> > > The server starts normally, with no truly indicative log messages, but produces
> > > a black screen.  When I have dual head configured, with TMDS,LVDS, it produces
> > > odd results, but at least I see something on the internal screen (but
> > > jittery and multiple copies).  The only scary log message is that DRI is
> > > disabled due to failure to open /dev/drm/card0, which occasionally is there
> > > during some of my attempts (I haven't been concentrating on that issue, assuming
> > > the basics would work with or without DRI).
> > >
> > > AMD Turion64, ATI Mobility X700 (it's an acer ferrari 4000, for the rest of the
> > > hardware information)
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what else is useful, I'm happy to provide anything that would be
> > > helpful.  As I said, I'm happy to test new code, or take any suggestions as to
> > > the next step.
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > Aaron
> > >
> > > P.S.  Here is the lspci -v output for the card:
> > >
> > >
> > > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > >     Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 007e
> > >     Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 10
> > >     Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > >     I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
> > >     Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > >     Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> > >     Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> > >     Capabilities: [58] #10 [0001]
> > >     Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
> > >
> > >
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