Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-22 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Kerry Hall kerryh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Alex! Yes, this is another 1.25 Ghz eMac, with a Radeon 9200. I need to compile the ATI driver from git? What version of the driver would this be, and how do I compile it? I tried the Connector Table option and the

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-19 Thread Kerry Hall
Hey Alex! I basically tried everything that Joseph tried. The screen flickers twice, then is black. The only thing that has made any difference in visual output has been trying various connector table options, but I am not sure which ones to use. When using a connector table option, a few white

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-16 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:37 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: The EDID for the built-in monitor of all PowerPC Macs can be found under /proc/device-tree. Since it's hard for anyone but Apple to know about every single type of monitor they've put into their computers, wouldn't it be better for

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-16 Thread Stan Cunningham
Hi, --- On Tue, 12/16/08, Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com wrote: The EDID for the built-in monitor of all PowerPC Macs can be found under /proc/device-tree. Since it's hard for anyone but Apple to know about every single type of monitor they've put into their computers, wouldn't it be

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-16 Thread Joseph Adams
I'm not sure how OpenFirmware is implemented to know the EDID. On my iMac G3, the EDID is located at: /proc/device-tree/p...@f000/ATY,rage128p...@10/EDID Joseph, does your eMac have an EDID file in a similar location? Yes. This is what I get on my eMac 1GHz with my external monitor

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-11 Thread Joseph Adams
I played around with gtf and found that my purportedly 1280x960 monitor can display higher resolutions quite nicely (no missing pixels, apparently). Here is a list of the resolutions and refresh rates I tested: //These flicker pretty badly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Deucher
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Joseph Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Xorg.0.log and output of xrandr (in the absence of an xorg.conf) can be found at http://www.funsitelots.com/pub/emac_almostthere . It looks to me like Xorg is adding default modelines that aren't appropriate for the

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-10 Thread Joseph Adams
Oops, forgot to send to xorg as well -- Forwarded message -- From: Joseph Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:49 AM Subject: Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac To: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch works when my external monitor is unplugged

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-10 Thread Joseph Adams
My Xorg.0.log and output of xrandr (in the absence of an xorg.conf) can be found at http://www.funsitelots.com/pub/emac_almostthere . It looks to me like Xorg is adding default modelines that aren't appropriate for the internal CRT monitor. Since my LCD monitor supports 1280x1024 resolution that

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-09 Thread Joseph Adams
I wrote a little script and got the Xorg.0.log of every combination. In some of the tests, I heard Fedora 10 GNOME's startup sound, and other times I didn't. IIRC the snippet posted farther down is from a test where I heard the startup sound. I also got my dmesg (after rebooting) which may

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Joseph Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a little script and got the Xorg.0.log of every combination. In some of the tests, I heard Fedora 10 GNOME's startup sound, and other times I didn't. IIRC the snippet posted farther down is from a test where I heard

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-09 Thread Joseph Adams
Yay! I modified my xorg.conf to add the modelines and use the ConnectorTable, and it displays fine (though there is a bit of flickering whenever xrandr is called) See http://www.funsitelots.com/pub/xorg_emacG4_working for logs, screenshots, etc. My xorg.conf is as follows: # Xorg configuration

Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-08 Thread Joseph Adams
I'm struggling to get the Radeon driver to work on my eMac G4's Radeon 7500 card (the fbdev driver works fine at 1024x768 with no acceleration). On both Fedora 8 and Fedora 10 with default xorg.conf, the screen is blank (the CRT doesn't glow or anything). I have a CRT monitor that supports up to

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-08 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Joseph Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm struggling to get the Radeon driver to work on my eMac G4's Radeon 7500 card (the fbdev driver works fine at 1024x768 with no acceleration). On both Fedora 8 and Fedora 10 with default xorg.conf, the screen is blank