On Tue April 3 2012 14:40:02 Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi Alex,
> >>
> >> Sorry for the delay, but Real Life intervened and I didn't have access to
> >> the
> >> hardware for over a month.
> >>
> >> On Friday, February 24, 2012 15:43:08 Alex Deucher wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> > Hi Alex,
> >>> >
> >>> > A few weeks ago I spent some time trying to get my sam440ep PPC board to
> >>> > work with a recent kernel/debian distro. I discovered a bug causing it
> >>> > to crash. It's a regression of commit
> >>> > 82f12e5a40c1fbcb91910a0f8b725c34fff02aae
> >>> > from January 2009. Clearly, this board isn't used very often :-)
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Well, most people use KMS nowadays and most boards without an x86
> >>> vbios (Mac and Sun cards mostly), already have connector tables. Good
> >>> catch on the patch.
> >>>
> >>> > It would be nice if this patch is merged.
> >>> >
> >>> > I've also tried to get drm to work with this board, but unfortunately
> >>> > the colors
> >>> > have the wrong endianness and I don't really have any idea how to fix
> >>> > that (or
> >>> > even where to look for that matter). For the record, this board has a
> >>> > ATI Radeon
> >>> > Mobility M9.
> >>> >
> >>> > Regards,
> >>> >
> >>> > Hans
> >>> >
> >>> > Patch description:
> >>> >
> >>> > The sam440ep PPC board requires a ConnectorTable xorg.conf option, but
> >>> > putting
> >>> > in that option causes the radeon driver to crash. I finally traced it
> >>> > to a
> >>> > copy-and-paste bug in radeon_output.c as a result of a major rework in
> >>> > commit
> >>> > 82f12e5a40c1fbcb91910a0f8b725c34fff02aae.
> >>>
> >>> What connectortable option did you have to use? We might as well try
> >>> and add option for it so future users won't have to manually figure it
> >>> out.
> >>
> >> Here it is:
> >>
> >> Option "ConnectorTable" "100,2,1,2,96,1,0,1"
> >>
> >
> > Thanks. Does this card also have an s-video or composite tv-out
> > connector? Also what are the pci subsystem ids so I can hopefully
> > match up the connector table automatically.
>
> And the pci device ids of course.
Here it is:
00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250
[Mobility FireGL 9000] [1002:4c66] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]
[1002:4c66]
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 25
Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Memory at a81a0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at a8180000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: radeon
It has a S-Video out as well (never tested it, though) and internal VGA
and LVDS headers.
See also the user manual:
http://www.acube-systems.biz/download/sam_manual_1.1.pdf
Regards,
Hans
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