Re: Regression with Radeon Mobility TI PB & kernel 2.6.15.4

[Adam Done <adam@donestudios.com>]

Adam Done wrote:

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
  

I have no idea what's up at this point... best would be to find somebody
in Canberra with one of these machines that would let me use it to debug
the problem.... That or somebody willing to hack into the code and try
to find a way to make it work

Ben.
    

What I am seeing is it takes longer to draw the screen in X when switching ttys
and when it is redrawing the screen it looks like it is starting with 6 bit colors.

Unfortunly I am not a programmer and don't have any experience with coding and
when looking at kernel code I am at loss of what to do :( .   I wish I can
donate this PowerBook but when I am done, it has to return to a unveristy. :(


Is Blaxland close to Canberra?  I may know somone who is there but right now I
don't know if he has a PB.

-Adam
  

I do wonder if it is code or settings.

my xorg.conf file reads this:

...

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 (M6 LY)"
        Driver          "ati"
        BusID           "PCI:0:16:0"
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
        Option          "AGPMode"       "4"
        Option          "EnablePageFlip" "On"
        Option          "ConnectedMonitor"      "DFP"
        Option          "backingstore"
        Option          "Accel"         "On"
EndSection

...

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 (M6 LY)"
        Monitor         "Color LCD"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

That has worked with my 2.6.11.9 kernel


Also,  I have this in my kernel append:

video=ofonly gives me nasty nuclear blowout on my screen as it looks like the lcd is on acid

-Adam