Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (265 mails)

[Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mattias,

Did you have a chance to look futher into this? Let me know if more information 
or 
tests are neeed.

Just a thought. Is the bios expected to be able to detect and use the hdmi 
interface? If I boot with HDMI only, the bios doesn't show on the TV.   

Many thanks!

/Anders

aeriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
>  I upgraded to 1.2.4 and redid the tests.
>
> mhopf@xxxxxxx said:
> > On Jan 13, 09 20:30:02 +0100, Anders Eriksson wrote: 
> > > Some modes turn up, but not 1920x1080. What xrandr command should be used 
> > > to get  
> > > _anything_ onto the HDMI connection? The HDMI on the TV is blank, and all 
> > > xrandr commands I've tried gives zero result.
>
> > *Theoretically*, there should be already 1280x1024 on the HDMI. You can try
> > to run 'xrandr --output DVI-D_1 --mode 1280x720' - that is at least a TV
> > resolution, and the TV should be able to display it.
>
> Tried it. No success. xrandr move the '*' marker to the 720 line though. So
> that part works. Nothing on the TV though.
>
> > Also, you might want to look into the "Coherent" option in 'man radeonhd'.
> > Just a guess, though.
>
> Hmm. Any idea what transmitter to use? I check the Xorg.log, and the only
> match betweeen it and the man page I get is for TMDS. however, it seems my
> TMDS is used for the other DVI connector: (II) RADEONHD(0): RandR: Adding
> RRoutput VGA_1 for Output DAC A (II) RADEONHD(0): RandR: Adding RRoutput
> TV_SVIDEO for Output DAC A (II) RADEONHD(0): RandR: Adding RRoutput DVI-D_1
> for Output DDIA (II) RADEONHD(0): RandR: Adding RRoutput DVI-D_2 for Output
> TMDS B
>
> I'm not sure if it matters, or if its a standard setup, but I have the HDMI
> connector on a PCIe card, and the (other) DVI connector and VGA connector on
> the motherboard.
>
> > And have you tried connecting *only* the HDMI cable? And look into the
> > Xorg.0.log, maybe the mode turns up then (doesn't necessarily mean that you
> > get the TV to display something).
>
> Tried that too, and the TV is still blank. Interestingly though, diffing the
> Xlog log with/without VGA connected at startup, I get a differnt resolution:
>
> -(II) RADEONHD(0): Output DVI-D_1 using initial mode 1280x1024 +(II)
> RADEONHD(0): Output DVI-D_1 using initial mode 720x400 Albeit it seems its
> not used (1280x1280 !!): -(II) RADEONHD(0): Using 1920x1920 Framebuffer with
> 1920 pitch -(II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated ScanoutBuffer at offset
> 0x00008000 (size = 0x00E10000) -(**) RADEONHD(0): Display dimensions: (1020,
> 570) mm -(**) RADEONHD(0): DPI set to (47, 85) +(II) RADEONHD(0): Using
> 1280x1280 Framebuffer with 1280 pitch +(II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated
> ScanoutBuffer at offset 0x00008000 (size = 0x00640000) +(==) RADEONHD(0): DPI
> set to (96, 96)
>
> And it's stopped off with: -(II) RADEONHD(0): Setting screen physical size to
> 1018 x 573 +(II) RADEONHD(0): Setting screen physical size to 160 x 90
>
> > > rhd_conntest:
> > > rhd_conntest: v1.2.3, dist of git branch master, commit 57aca005
> > > Checking connectors on 0x791E, 0x1043, 0x826D  (@01:05:00):
> > >   Load Detection: RHD_OUTPUT_DACA
> > >   HotPlug: RHD_HPD_NONE 
> > >   DDC: RHD_DDC_0 RHD_DDC_2
>
> > I would need it run without the VGA cable attached. Only HDMI.
>
> rhd_conntest: v1.2.4, dist of git branch master, commit 4e897263 Checking
> connectors on 0x791E, 0x1043, 0x826D  (@01:05:00):
>   Load Detection: RHD_OUTPUT_NONE 
>   HotPlug: RHD_HPD_NONE 
>   DDC: RHD_DDC_2
>   DDC Line[2]: Slaves: a0 
>
> > There additionally have been quite some patches regarding digital outputs
> > (commit c38be2432: "DCE3.0: Properly map DCE3.0 DIG encoders" comes into my
> > mind) in git. Version 1.2.4 is the recent one.
>
> Thanks for lookin into this. Full Xlog logs from a 1.2.4 start with and
> without VGA conected attached.
>
> /Anders




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