On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Stephane Louise <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/5/1 Alex Deucher <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Stephane Louise >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Which version of kernel would you suggest? >> >> 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.4 maybe? With a new enough kernel (3.4 I think), you >> can try the hw i2c controllers rather than the bit-banging bus; just >> load radeon with the parameter hw_i2c=1. > > For memory, the 3.1 kernel was installed before and didn't work. > I finally compiled and installed a 3.4 kernel, and this time, it > doesn't even detect when a new screen is plugged in.
Did you try with radeon.hw_i2c=1 or without? You shouldn't get any difference in behavior without that option since it uses the same code paths as earlier kernels. > > AFAIKS, the issue with the driver so far is that it is unable to > detect screens either because it calculate a false CRC with the > plugged screen (kernel 3.2 behavior), or simply can't find any screen > attached to a port (3.1 and 3.4 kernel behavior). > > Attached dmesg for the 3.4 kernel. I dunno. Nothing sticks out as problematic. Others have used the driver on ppc without problems. Maybe Ben or Michel have some ideas. Alex > > Best regards, > > Stéphane Louise _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
