Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (265 mails)

["Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 11, 2008 8:02 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying out Egbert's latest changes for reading the PCI ROM, And I 
> thought
> it useful to report that the PCI ROM still reads back as all zeros on my G5.
> This is however a nice improvement over the previous ROM read stuff, that hung
> the machine ;-).
>
> Xorg.log snippet (slight patch to never use the x86 0xA000 legacy reading):
> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> (**) RADEONHD(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (II) RADEONHD(0): Unknown card detected: 0x7240:0x1002:0x7240.
>     If - and only if - your card does not work or does not work optimally
>     please contact radeonhd@xxxxxxxxxxxx to help rectify this.
>     Use the subject: 0x7240:0x1002:0x7240: <name of board>.
> (--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an R580 on an unidentified card
> (II) RADEONHD(0): Mapped IO at 0xf7fef000 (size 0x00010000)
> (II) RADEONHD(0): Getting BIOS copy from PCI ROM (128K)
> (EE) RADEONHD(0): rhdAtomGetDataTable: No AtomBios signature found
> (II) RADEONHD(0): Query for AtomBIOS Init: failed
> (--) RADEONHD(0): VideoRAM: 245824 kByte

If you are using the mac edition, it probably doesn't have an
atombios.  Assuming OF inits the card properly, you could probably
hack the driver to bypass  the bios stuff and and just program the
modes similar to how we handle mac cards in the radeon driver.

Alex
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