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Re: How to activate KMS with a radeon video card on powerpc?



On Sam, 2010-03-20 at 23:32 +0100, Cédric Boutillier wrote: 
> 
> > Can you provide the full dmesg, or at least the output of
> 
> > dmesg|grep -e drm -e radeon
> 
> Here is the output of dmesg|grep -e drm -e radeon for the first 60
> seconds. The rest is full of messages about sleep mode.
> 
> ------8<------------------
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/mapper/pomme-root ro quiet radeon.modeset=1 
> [    0.961495] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
> [    1.157118] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents
> [    1.157136] radeonfb (0000:00:10.0): Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55
> [    1.157144] radeonfb: Retrieved PLL infos from Open Firmware
> [    1.157151] radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=183.00 Mhz, System=210.00 MHz
> [    1.157155] radeonfb: PLL min 12000 max 35000
> [    1.913919] radeonfb: Monitor 1 type LCD found
> [    1.913922] radeonfb: EDID probed
> [    1.913926] radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found
> [    1.913937] radeonfb: Using Firmware dividers 0x00020074 from PPLL 0
> [    1.913998] radeonfb: Dynamic Clock Power Management enabled
> [    1.954679] radeonfb: Backlight initialized (radeonbl0)
> [    1.954684] radeonfb (0000:00:10.0): ATI Radeon 4e56 "NV"
> [   22.160205] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [   22.276152] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> [   61.858874] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents
> [   61.859073] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents
> ------>8------------------

As I suspected, radeonfb is active. You'll have to disable that,
otherwise it prevents KMS from taking ownership of the GPU.


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