Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (212 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:

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http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/crash/bisect-make-1.log.bz2  
(download)

(216k)
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/crash/bisect-make-1.log.txt 
(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.

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