On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 02:24:43AM +0300, Sviatoslav Chagaev wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:28:24 +0000
> Owain Ainsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This diff doesn't have all of the pcidevs that it could have (if it
> > doesn't attach on your hardware send me the output of pcidump -v and I
> > will send an extra diff). However, this gives radeondrm(4) the right
> > bits to work on newer (r600 and r700) chipsets.
> >
> > Please test and report back to me. It should give you 2d acceleration and
> > XVideo.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -0-
>
> (dmesg is attached in the end)
>
>
> I installed the latest snapshot of amd64, then
> cd /usr/src
> cvs up
> added 4850 to radeon_drv.c
May I see the diff for that, please? to check it was correct. I will
then commit it.
>and disabled a driver, called 'udl' in
> GENERIC, because it depended on some .c files which should've been
> located in a nonexistent directory (dev/videomode) and compiled an MP
> kernel.
Your kernel tree is hosed. videomode does exist, as does udl.
>
> snip radeonhd X log and explanation
>
>
Unless it currently fixes a bug in the radeon driver for you, I would
generally recommend that everyone avoid radeonhd. It is essentially dead
upstream will all developement going into the radeon driver. Our in tree
version of radeon is a little old but hopefully will be updated in the
near future.
> Then I tried putting 'radeon' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and this time X
> came up with no errors, these are the messages that were outputed on
> the terminal (somewhat different from Xorg.log, say the line 'unknown
> chip id 0x9442' doesn't appear in Xorg.log):
>
Good.
> Each time I run xrandr, X outputs the following two lines to terminal:
>
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
spam, just ignore. would be nice to shut it up though.
>
> Thank you for your work!
> Feel free to request any additional information, tests, log files etc.
You are welcome.
-0-
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