On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 19:30, William Gallafent wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > On Don, 2003-02-20 at 03:49, Andrew Reusch wrote:
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Validating modes on Primary head (DDCType: 0) --
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid DDC mode(s) found: 0
> > > (II) RADEON(0): No valid mode specified, force to native mdoe
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 0
> > > (EE) RADEON(0): No valid mode found for this DFP/LCD
> >
> > Does this patch help?
> 
> Because I get the same error when trying to get XFree86 to display on
> my Sapphire Radeon 9000 card via DVI-D, I thought I'd try the
> patch. The server aborts on startup with the patch applied, though :(

That's probably because I neglected to check the return value of
RADEONFPNativeMode() in the patch. Unfortunately, even fixing that won't
make it work because the driver can't seem to determine the panel
dimensions.

> Attached are logs with and without the patch, and my config file. I'm
> on the verge of buying a Geforce 4MX card, since I bought the Radeon
> 9000 in the hope of running dual head (1: DVI-D, 2: VGA) last
> December, and it looks like I'm no closer now than I was then :(

You could try the full patch at
http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/DRI/radeon-ddc.diff (mostly by Hui Yu,
too late for 4.3.0 unfortunately).


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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