July 2012 - openSUSE ARM - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-arm] omapdrm
by Alexander Graf 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Howdy, During the past few days I've been trying to get omapdrm to talk to me. Thanks to Rob's help I finally got things working on 3.4 [1]. Something's still wrong with the pixel clock, so I can only use low (1280x1024) resolutions. And for 2D acceleration we'd need a binary blob. But overall, we can completely replace omapfb with omapdrm and have future proof gfx on OMAP! I pushed the relevant changes to the openSUSE-12.2 branch of the SUSE kernel repo. So the next time we get a kernel submission for Factory / 12.2, it should contain a working omapdrm driver. Just modprobe it and you're ready to go with a console. The great thing about it though is that we finally have a working Xorg driver that doesn't randomly black screen you and which actually support xrandr, so you can switch resolutions and connections on the fly. To try it out, just use the xorg-x11-drv-omap package from openSUSE:Factory:ARM. The name is not final yet, so expect it to change. Keep up the great work guys! We're getting closer to a usable 12.2 every single day :). Alex [1] http://csgraf.de/tmp/beagle-xm-3.4.jpg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] xf86-video-omap to X11:XOrg and Factory?
by Guillaume Gardet 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hi, now that compile error is fixed, my xf86-video-omap package builds fine for armv7. Could I push it to X11:XOrg (and then Factory)? Any comments, or questions? Project: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=xf86-video-omap&project=hom… Cheers, Guillaume -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] omap framebuffer DVI output: update for 3.5-rc*
by Guillaume Gardet 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hi, Some people may have notice that dvi output was no more working on beagleboard with recent git kernel. I succeeded to have DVI working with framebuffer driver (omapfb) on my beagleboard xM. Since 3.5-rc* you need to modprobe panel-tfp410 before omapfb: modprobe panel-tfp410 modprobe omapfb mode=dvi:1440x900MR-24@60 I updated the wiki accordingly: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Beagleboard_(xM) Guillaume -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] parted and x86 bootinfo in the MBR
by Alexander Graf 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hi Petr, When running parted to create or modify an MBR label, it tries to be clever and throws a dummy x86 boot sector onto the MBR, so the disk is bootable on PCs. While that's nice and helpful for a bunch of use cases, it doesn't exactly help when running on ARM. Some ARM devices, such as the OMAP3 series, have a buggy boot rom that simply goes into nirvana if it finds non-0 in the first 4 bytes of the SD card. Please see libparted/labels/dos.c:1271 for the place that copies a generic x86 asm MBR into the MBR when its first byte is 0. We need to have the first byte be 0 though. Otherwise later on the whole machine won't be bootable anymore :). Any idea how to resolve this? The easy fix I could imagine would be to just not do the fixup on ARM, but that sounds slightly hackish :(. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-arm] ARMv7 compile error
by Guillaume GARDET 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

|Hi,| || |||I made a package in OBS: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=xf86-video-omap&project=hom… And I get this error for armv7: error: visibility attribute not supported in this configuration; ignored [-Werror=attributes] || cc1: all warnings being treated as errors| | I enabled armv5 for testing and it builds fine in armv5. I tried to play with some ./configure options with no effect. Any idea? Guillaume | -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner(a)opensuse.org

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