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Re: Radeon fb troubles



On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:21:42AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 18:43 +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > The first time I had this, I thought it was a glitch, and several
> > reboots seems to remedy the problem, but now, I can't a normal working
> > display working.  I have booted with video=ofonly (actually
> > video=radeonfb video=ofonyl, since the first video entry is hardcoded in
> > my yaboot.conf) and that works... but since I can't adjust the
> > brightness and stuff this is not exactly ideal.
> > 
> > I've used OS X a few days ago, maybe it changed something in the
> > firmware...  from dmesg I can't see anything different from other
> > Powerbook outputs and since I don't see a thing, it's hard to find the
> > problem and I have no idea where to start...
> > Any ideas/hints/pointers?
> > 
> 
> This is weird. I have the same model and no problem at all ... can you
> send me the dmesg log when the problem occurs ? Also, what if you use
> fblevel 0 to bring it down, then fblevel 15 to bring it back up (15 is
> the max value). Does it help ?

I tried the fblevel thing back then, something happens, but it just
gives the nice white-glowing-to-purple/black display.

Anyway, when I booted this morning (one can not suspend with
video=ofonly, the backlight stays on in suspend?) the fb seemed to work
again, except for X, that didn't work as before... 
I went to the university, remembered that backlight would stay on so did
a remote `sudo radeontool light off` and hoped it worked.
When I got back home and rebooted to produce the dmesg log you
requested, everything worked again.  So, I hope I'll never have it
again, if I do, you'll get that dmesg log :) Thanks a lot anyway!

Regards,

Paul

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