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Stretch, Radeon 4850, and backlight



Hey all,

so....I have an oldish iMac 24 inch.  It comes with a Radeon Mobility HD 4850.  After install of Stretch testing, this worked fine, save for one small issue of the backlight not going out.  As I run this as kind of a server with no need to see the screen most of the time, I'd like to get the backlight to go out.  So I installed firmware-linux-nonfree.  This actually causes me to get a blank screen...just the backlight on.  I can ssh into the machine, but I get no screen at all (http://askubuntu.com/questions/688388/14-04-gets-black-screen-unless-radeon-modeset-0).  I DO however see the backlight go out.  Right now I'm using radeon.modeset=0 to get an active screen again.  My question is there any way I can troubleshoot getting the backlight to go out?  I've got to:

https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI

But I'm just not having much success.  Thanks for any assistance you can give....info below.  lspci and dmesg:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV770/M98L [Mobility Radeon HD 4850]
[   10.356922] [drm:radeon_init [radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module!


dmesg without the modeset:
[   10.914802] radeon 0000:02:00.0: VRAM: 512M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000001FFFFFFF (512M used)
[   10.914804] radeon 0000:02:00.0: GTT: 1024M 0x0000000020000000 - 0x000000005FFFFFFF
[   10.914806] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=512M, BAR=256M
[   10.914807] [drm] RAM width 256bits DDR
[   10.914869] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 4088066 kiB
[   10.914870] [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
[   10.914871] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[   10.914876] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
[   10.914895] [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
[   10.914896] [drm] radeon: 1024M of GTT memory ready.
[   10.914908] [drm] Loading RV770 Microcode
[   10.985259] radeon 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/RV770_pfp.bin
[   11.015010] radeon 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/RV770_me.bin
[   11.283904] radeon 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/R700_rlc.bin
[   11.285010] radeon 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/RV770_smc.bin
[   11.285019] [drm] External GPIO thermal controller with fan control
[   11.285034] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
[   11.437289] radeon 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware radeon/RV770_uvd.bin
[   11.437338] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 262144, num gpu pages 262144
[   11.438616] [drm] enabling PCIE gen 2 link speeds, disable with radeon.pcie_gen2=0
[   11.441386] [drm] PCIE GART of 1024M enabled (table at 0x0000000000258000).
[   11.441422] radeon 0000:02:00.0: WB enabled
[   11.441425] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000020000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff8800bdd54c00
[   11.441427] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 0x0000000020000c0c and cpu addr 0xffff8800bdd54c0c
[   11.441903] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 0x0000000000056230 and cpu addr 0xffffc90001416230
[   11.441905] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[   11.441906] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[   11.441908] radeon 0000:02:00.0: radeon: MSI limited to 32-bit
[   11.441938] radeon 0000:02:00.0: radeon: using MSI.
[   11.441963] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[   11.488229] [drm] ring test on 0 succeeded in 1 usecs
[   11.488235] [drm] ring test on 3 succeeded in 2 usecs
[   11.662883] [drm] ring test on 5 succeeded in 1 usecs
[   11.662890] [drm] UVD initialized successfully.
[   11.663277] [drm] ib test on ring 0 succeeded in 0 usecs
[   11.663292] [drm] ib test on ring 3 succeeded in 0 usecs
[   12.312126] [drm] ib test on ring 5 succeeded
[   12.312699] [drm] radeon atom DIG backlight initialized
[   12.312702] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[   12.312703] [drm] Connector 0:
[   12.312704] [drm]   DP-1
[   12.312705] [drm]   HPD2
[   12.312706] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e60 0x7e60 0x7e64 0x7e64 0x7e68 0x7e68 0x7e6c 0x7e6c
[   12.312707] [drm]   Encoders:
[   12.312708] [drm]     DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY
[   12.312709] [drm] Connector 1:
[   12.312710] [drm]   DP-2
[   12.312711] [drm]   HPD3
[   12.312712] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e20 0x7e20 0x7e24 0x7e24 0x7e28 0x7e28 0x7e2c 0x7e2c
[   12.312713] [drm]   Encoders:
[   12.312714] [drm]     DFP2: INTERNAL_UNIPHY
[   12.312715] [drm] Connector 2:
[   12.312716] [drm]   LVDS-1
[   12.312717] [drm]   Encoders:
[   12.312718] [drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_LVTMA
[   12.312719] [drm] Connector 3:
[   12.312719] [drm]   VGA-1
[   12.312721] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
[   12.312722] [drm]   Encoders:
[   12.312723] [drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
[   13.005463] [drm] fb mappable at 0xC0459000
[   13.005465] [drm] vram apper at 0xC0000000
[   13.005466] [drm] size 5947392
[   13.005467] [drm] fb depth is 24
[   13.005468] [drm]    pitch is 5632
[   13.005547] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[   13.086983] radeon 0000:02:00.0: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device


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