On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 02:24, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:29, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >> When did you try exactly ? I've seen more fixes for TMDS getting
> >> in the CVS recently. I'm not sure what's up here, definitely not
> >> something the doc explains. I suspect it's the path of pixel
> >> data from the framebuffer to the TMDS transmitter that has an
> >> endian problem, I fail to see why SURFACE_CNTL thing would fail,
> >> or maybe it's a problem related to surface translation getting in
> >> our way ?
> >
> > I suspected that as well. If current CVS still doesn't work (works
> > perfectly here with an external CRT on an M9 in a TiBook IV), please 
> > try this patch and post the RADEONInitCommonRegisters output.
> 
> Thanks for the info. I was out of town so I couldn't test it until now.
> 
> I built X from the current CVS just a few hours ago with the following 
> results:
> 
> 1) If I enable FBDev, then I get a nice picture on the TMDS screen, 
> correct colors and nice 24 bit color depth. I also get a white screen 
> on the ADC (VGA) screen.

Well, as I said before, the behaviour of the second head is basically
undefined in this case. It's not a supported configuration.


> 2) If I disable FBDev, then the results are exactly same as the version 
> of X I used when first reporting this problem: signal is only on the 
> DVI screen (ADC is blanked), the colors are broken in that weird manner 
> (half-split color bits). Getting back to the console is impossible 
> since both screens get blanked once you try that.
> 
> I used your patch, but the info doesn't seem very helpful (btw the 
> behavior was the same with/without the patch). I have attached logs 
> from both runs.

Indeed, it's not stray surfaces getting in the way either. I suspect
it's rather a CRTC/DAC/whatnot setup problem. Hui Yu is the man to talk
to. :)


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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