Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon Mobility M6/7 LW on IBM Thinkpad T30 (Simultaneous CRT/LCD Display)
Excellent!! I compiled a fresh XFree distribution and moved the drm kernel driver radeon.o and agpgart.o away from the kernel-module search paths. Now I am getting exactly what I want on both the CRT and the LCD. The CRT has a refresh rate of 75 Hzwhere its usable :-) However! DRI isnt working. Relevant lines from XFree86.0.log (the whole file is at http://www.senfamily.org/xfree/XFree86.0.log_20020711 ): [drm] failed to load kernel module radeon (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. If I cant use the radeon.o from the kernel, where can I compile one from? Its not obvious where in the Xfree tree it is. 'make World' under xc didnt seem to produce one. DRI didn't work because you don't have the kernel driver (radeon.o) on your system. To compile DRI kernel driver, go to xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel directory, do 'make -fMakefile.linux'. You may have compile problem if you are using some new version of kernel. If so, you can download a version of Linux kernel (like 2.4.18) from www.kernel.org which should contain the standard DRI kernel driver (not Gatos one). Also, how about AGP? Should I be using: Option AGPMode 1 in the device section? Do I need agpgart.o from the kernel for AGP support? You don't have to specify AGPMode, the default is 1x. You can use this option to set 2x or 4x mode. You do need agpgart module for DRI to work, the best way is to compile it into the kernel. If you want to use it as a separate module, make sure to load agpgart.o before radeon.o. Last but not the least, where can I get the source for the ati_drv and radeon_drv modules that you sent me? I sent two patches to xfree a few months ago, the first is in current CVS, not sure if the second got in yet (the patches are too big, they may take quite a bit time to merge). Anyway, those patches are not quite complete. At present I really don't have much free time to sync with current CVS and make another patch. I'm thinking, maybe a little latter, I'll put everything together with the 2D support for all the new cards on my systems and make a patch to the CVS code. Before then, if you want the code, I can send you the source with no new card support. Thanks VERY much! DS ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon Mobility M6/7 LW on IBM Thinkpad T30 (Simultaneous CRT/LCD Display)
It looks like you are still loading Gatos drm kernel driver (can't get too much from your corrupted log file). The drivers I sent you will NOT work with any Gatos drivers, it will lock up for sure if you still have the Gatos version of drm kernel driver (radeon.o) on your system to be loaded. Try to disable DRI or replace the DRI kernel driver (radeon.o) with the one from stock X4.2 or from Linux distributions like RH7.3. Specifying ati or radeon in your config file should give the same result. If not, your drivers are broken somehow. If you prefer to using Gatos drivers, posting your problem to Gatos forum may help you better. But I doubt they will have a better solution for your current problem. Hui - Original Message - From: D. Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hy0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon Mobility M6/7 LW on IBM Thinkpad T30 (Simultaneous CRT/LCD Display) Well I tried your drivers. In short, they didnt work. Both the LCD and CRT came up with distorted lines (which can best be described as noise) and my machine froze. I tried using ati and radeon in the card section and have attached my XF86Config-4. The logs can be found at http://www.senfamily.org/xfree/XFree86.0.log_HUI and http://www.senfamily.org/xfree/XFree86.0.log_HUI.radeon The XF86Config-4 file was also overwritten with garbage after I tried to use radeon as my driver. (This could be a file system corruption due to the freeze + rebooting) So far, a single monitor configuration using the old radeon (GATOS?) driver is working best for me. I reported that using ati and a dual headed configuration worked too. However, power management is broken in that configuration. The screen distorts if the machine is left alone for a while or the machine is put into 'suspend/sleep' mode. I am stuck with a 50 Hz refresh display on the CRT with both the multi-headed 'ati' driver and the single-headed 'radeon' driver. I have chosen to use the 'radeon' as it seems to support power management. DS hy0 wrote: If you are trying to mirror your LCD on the CRT, try attached binary drivers. This is a version with the native 2nd-head mirroring feature for X4.2x. Simply replace radeon_drv.o and ati_drv.o on your system (under /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/). Use just the single head config for your LCD (remove all the dual-screen stuffs from your config file). The driver will detect and bring up your CRT to its best refresh (suppose your CRT is DDC capable, if not, there are options let you configure it). You can also configure two heads with different resolution with some special options (let me know if you ever need them), the driver will handle panning. This approach is better than the dual-screen approach in following ways: 1. With dual-screen, DRI is disabled. You can enable DRI with this one. 2. Overlay won't work on your CRT with the dual-screen setup. It'll work here. 3. Less overhead. With dual-screen, only half of video ram can be used for one screen... 4. With dual-screen, you may have problem with the hw cursor on your 2nd head (not sure if it's fixed). 5. should be easier to setup with this one. Attached drivers have been tested by several people on a few M6 based laptops and other systems. It should work with M7 based systems. If you want to give it a try, let me know whether it works for you. If not, send me your log and config file. Hui - Original Message - From: D. Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon Mobility M6/7 LW on IBM Thinkpad T30 (Simultaneous CRT/LCD Display) Michel Daenzer wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:24, D. Sen wrote: Well, I think I set up my XF86Config-4 to do what you suggested. I am including it with this email. However, X crashes on me when I try to invoke startx (including /var/log/XFree86.0.log as well). If I change the screen directive for the Card1 device from Screen 1 to Screen 0, I get a display on the external CRT (the LCD is just backlit with a blank screen). Any ideas? [...] (II) RADEON(0): Shutting down Xvideo subsystems (II) RADEON(0): membase=0xe800 memsize=0x0400 gpSize=0x0008 This looks like you're using GATOS drivers, does the crash occur with stock XFree86 drivers? Specifying the ati driver as opposed to the radeon driver does work better. X isnt crashing anymore. I am also getting a display on both the LCD and the CRT screen. However, I dont seem to be able to change the refresh rate on the CRT. I have tried quite a few different modelines but the refresh rate doesnt change from the 50 Hz (It seems to pick the modeline from the bios settings for the clock rate, etc) The new XFree86.0.Log is at http://cafebleu.no-ip.org:9135/xfree
Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon Mobility M6/7 LW on IBM Thinkpad T30(Simultaneous CRT/LCD Display)
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:24, D. Sen wrote: Well, I think I set up my XF86Config-4 to do what you suggested. I am including it with this email. However, X crashes on me when I try to invoke startx (including /var/log/XFree86.0.log as well). If I change the screen directive for the Card1 device from Screen 1 to Screen 0, I get a display on the external CRT (the LCD is just backlit with a blank screen). Any ideas? [...] (II) RADEON(0): Shutting down Xvideo subsystems (II) RADEON(0): membase=0xe800 memsize=0x0400 agpSize=0x0008 This looks like you're using GATOS drivers, does the crash occur with stock XFree86 drivers? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon Mobility M6/7 LW on IBM Thinkpad T30(Simultaneous CRT/LCD Display)
On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 20:16, D. Sen wrote: I would like to have a 70-80 Hz refresh rate CRT display simultaneously with my LCD display on my laptop equipped with the ATI Radeon Mobility chipset. This is especially for presentations where I can control my LCD screen and have the others watch what I am doing on a bigger screen (perhpas even on a projector). I havent been able to figure out how to configure my XF86Config-4 to do this. If I set the CrtScreen Option, I only get a display on the external monitor. If I dont, then the server scans the LCD screen for clock rates and the best I can achieve on the external display is a refresh rate of around 53 Hz. Set up multihead with two device sections containing the Screen directive and two screen sections. Make the screens overlap in the layout section if you want mirroring. lspci -vv reports: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LW (prog-if 00 [VGA]) XFree86 -configure reports: BoardName Radeon Mobility M7 LW Dont know if the the difference in M6/7 between the lspci output and XFree86 probe is of any use. lspci is just not quite correct. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
