R500 initial driver release announcement

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Mon Jun 18 19:52:17 PDT 2007


Jerome Glisse wrote:
> This command should activate dac2 on the second connector but in
> fact you won't need that as i guess first connector is vga and second
> one is dvi right ? So on first connector we should enable dac1 and on
> second we should enable tmds2. I will make the driver more verbose
> on which dac/tmds it enables and make sure it properly enable them.

No VGA on this card, both are DVI connectors. Both monitors are DVI 
capable and both are using DVI cables (no vga adapters).

> This from xterm (gterm fine) should enable second tmds thus bring
> the proper things on the screen.

avivotool regset 0x7a94 0x111
avivotool regset 0x7ad8 0x101001
avivotool regset 0x7b10 0x10000011
avivotool regset 0x7b04 0x00001f1f
avivotool regset 0x7a80 0x100001

These commands disable the secondary display completely. By returning 
the registers to their previous values as reported below. I get my 
second screen back. Still skewed as before...

avivotool regset 0x7a94 0x04000001
avivotool regset 0x7b10 0x30000011
avivotool regset 0x7b04 0x0000003e
avivotool regset 0x7a80 0x00001001





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