Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (622 mails)

[Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Pete,

Pete Chown writes:
 > I have a Radeon HD2900XT.  First of all, do you still need conntest 
 > output for this device?  If so I'll try to provide something.  The card 
 > has two DVI connectors, and it was supplied with adaptors which convert 
 > them into VGA.  I will connect it up as DVI and VGA with each connector, 
 > as specified in the README file.

connetest output shouldn't be needed except for exceptional cases.

 > 
 > I tried the current release of radeonhd (commit 
 > e325851486903e911cfb780849a9a471e8f0b54f).  I got a completely white 
 > screen.  Interestingly X still seemed to be functioning, even though I 
 > couldn't see anything.  If I used xinit and moved the cursor to the place 
 > where the xterm should be, I could press Ctrl-D to close everything 
 > down.  The Ctrl-Alt things seem to work as well.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace 
 > shuts the X server down, while + and - would blank the screen for a 
 > moment, which could have been the resolution changing.

Hrm, I've got such a beast and I finally found out that I have to use
both power connectors (stupid me - didn't realize this at first, libv
is blaming this on my old age :pp)
I will try this later.
Can you provide a log file, please?

 > 
 > If you need any more information about the white screen problem, let me 
 > know and I'll try to provide it.
 > 
 > Thanks for your work on the driver so far.
 > 
Thanks!

Cheers,
        Egbert.
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