Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Egbert,

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:25:21 +0100
Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:41:57PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

> > panel (Matthias knows what I'm talking about). Switching VT to X and
> > back still solves this (phew! we anticipated that with kms, once the
> > pll is screwed there would be no way to recover short of a reboot).
>
> This is strange and shouldn't happen at least when using the radeon driver.
> Since we don't support KMS for anything but Intel at this moment I have
> not looked into this more deeply.
> If X and the console have the same resolution there shouldn't be any
> flicker.

Yes, that's why I guessed that something was not working correctly ;)

> > So I guess that KMS is not working well in this setup, since some PLL
> > is still reprogrammed (and sometimes this fails).
> >
> > All on an oldish ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
> >
> > Now I wanted to put the module in the initrd, however, loading it from
> > "init=/bin/bash" (I tried that first, just to make sure) gives me a
> > kernel backtrace and basically kills the box.
>
> Also strange. Is this because you still need to load an AGP module?

I'm not sure, I have intel_agp loaded in the running system and it is
used, so this might be the issue. (Even though I think something as
trivial as intel_agp would not have escaped me... but you never
know).
Iwill try this again from init=bash once we get a new kernel for
FACTORY (the 2.6.32 that's in there is soooo old, that there are
hopefully tons of radeon fixes in 2.6.33 that surely will come soon ;)

I still hope that the abysmal 2D performance of radeon with RV350 will
get a bit better with newer kernel drivers etc...

Thanks,

        seife
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

"Mit Außerirdischen, die nicht weiter gekommen sind als Microsoft und
 Apple, will ich persönlich nichts zu tun haben." -- Prof. Harald Lesch
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