Hi John John D. Baker wrote: > This thread describes what I saw quite some time ago when Radeon DRMKMS > was first imported to NetBSD (almost-black-on-black video, only cursor > visible, X works fine). My experience was with older Radeon hardware > (Radeon 7000, ES1000 and other R100-class cards). > > The solution at the time was to simply ignore R200 and earlier radeon > cards. Now I wonder if something like the memory size might have been > the issue as seen in this thread. > > I'll have to check the BIOSes of the affected machines to see if they > have some similar settings (if they did, I don't recall now but I > have a habit of setting video memory to a minimum when such option > exists). > > That and find the part of the code that checks for the card type to > disable ignoring R200 and below.
from the dmesg, I see the "R300" firmware is loaded. is this correct? Does dmesg tell exactly the card I have? pcictl pci0 list: 001:05:0: ATI Technologies product 5955 (VGA display) Not very informative. Riccardo
