On Thursday 06 August 2009 07:03:08 am Matthias Hopf wrote:
On Aug 05, 09 12:34:15 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
That's not the problem. Just reinstalling the latest standard radeonhd release, fixes the problem. The issue is the recent changes to the driver in the git repository. For the RS690M card, the recent changes to the driver simply cause X to blackscreen and lock when you attempt to start kdm. This behavior began with the git pull I did on July 25, 2009. Before that, the build of radeonhd worked fine. Right now I'm running on:
When I say "blackscreen" I mean the laptop display looks like it is unpowered or unitialized. No slight light-gray backlight you expect from the initial "blank" screen on X start. With the changes to the driver, the screen looks like it is unpowered and off. I'll post my build logs so you can look to see if they hold a clue:
If you could git bisect this issue that would be most helpful. In your case something like
git bisect start d19a10b753d3 1.2.5
should start it correctly (assuming that the commit of 2009-07-24 was already broken, because the next was on 2009-07-28).
And when you find the causing commit, an Xserver log of both the causing commit and the commit before would be helpful for comparison.
Thanks
Matthias
Matthias, Sorry for the delay in getting this worked. I am stuck. I did the bisect at "start d19a10b753d3 1.2.5" and the radeonhd driver still fails for the RS690M (x1200) card. git bisect start d19a10b753d3 1.2.5 git bisect run make git bisect run sudo make install The card fails just as before. Aargh. A full set of Xorg.0.log (and .1. and .old) for the bisect attempt are in: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/crash/xorg-log2/ Prior to building the bisect start d19a10b753d3 1.2.5 driver, I had done a normal git pull and tried with the latest driver. It is dead in the water as well. The full set of xorg logs for that attempt are located here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/crash/xorg-log1/ There were also some concerning messages during the compile. Specifically there is a "fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref" error. I don't know if that is one of the causes of the driver failure, but "fatal" is never good. I have posted the full make output here: (7k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/crash/bisect-make-1.log.b... (download) (216k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/crash/bisect-make-1.log.t... (read online) What's the next step? How do I get another bisect earlier than the d19a10b753d3 1.2.5 one? Let me know how to proceed. I would like to get the radeonhd driver working again. I am back to the stock radeonhd package from the archlinux distro, but it doesn't include any of the powerdown stuff. (my hands are still getting *hot*) Thanks for your help, just let me know what to do next and I'll give it a shot. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org