On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:59, Tugrul Galatali wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 07:46, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > DDC detection of the panel fails - I assume this still works perfectly > > in Mac OS? (Could be related to the radeonfb problem and smells like a > > firmware or even hardware problem...) > > If its a firmware/hardware problem,
More likely hardware, as the X radeon driver detection doesn't involve the firmware. > I hope you got a way to explain it to Apple in terms they understand ;) Tough one. :\ It seems that the panel isn't wired properly, such that DDC over the I2C bus doesn't work. I suspect Mac OS (and possibly OF as well - does its display work? I guess so, or you'd probably have mentioned the console not working at all :) falls back to hardcoded values and doesn't care much. > > Does > > Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS" > > > > in the radeon device section make a difference? > > I grabbed your XF86Config-4.radeon, added that line and uncommented the > font path to misc so X doesn't exit on not finding the fixed font. When > I fire up X, the LCD stays on, but there is a narrow horizontal band, > about 5% tall 55% down from the top, which is blooming :) But the remaining 95% look good? Not bad for not knowing much of anything about the panel, is it? ;) > When I added that line to the XF86Config-4 brew that I had last (and > uploaded), I see the default X screen, but its tinted yellow and looks > like its in mode line hell. Have you tried your config with the option above, but without a custom mode definition (with the Modes line in the display subsection though)? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
