linux-fbdev-devel

[Linux-fbdev-devel] Ati Mobility FireGL V5250 support?

[Jurriaan <thu...@xs...>]

I'm wondering who I have to send pizza, beer or flowers to to get
support for the videocard in my Thinkpad T60p - an Ati Mobility FireGL
V5250. X.org works flawlessly with this card (using the opensource
driver). Compiling in radeonfb leads to a dmesg output without any
messages, since the pci-id is missing in the source core and the card is
not recognized.

Is anybody working on this?

Kind regards,
Jurriaan
-- 
It has a name, among the Voyani.
Lumina Arden. The light that burns.
You will feel its fire, Serra Diora.
	Michelle West - The Broken Crown

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Ati Mobility FireGL V5250 support?

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Jurriaan <thu...@xs...> wrote:
> I'm wondering who I have to send pizza, beer or flowers to to get
> support for the videocard in my Thinkpad T60p - an Ati Mobility FireGL
> V5250. X.org works flawlessly with this card (using the opensource
> driver). Compiling in radeonfb leads to a dmesg output without any
> messages, since the pci-id is missing in the source core and the card is
> not recognized.
>
> Is anybody working on this?

radeonfb doesn't support any avivo-based radeons and never will.  If
you want hi-res consoles, use the the new radeon drm with modesetting.
 It's available in 2.6.31 and supports all r1xx-r5xx radeons.  Support
for r6xx-r7xx is available in 2.6.32.

Alex

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Ati Mobility FireGL V5250 support?

[<thu...@xs...>]

From: Alex Deucher <ale...@gm...>
Date: Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:27:01AM -0400
> 
> radeonfb doesn't support any avivo-based radeons and never will.  If
> you want hi-res consoles, use the the new radeon drm with modesetting.
>  It's available in 2.6.31 and supports all r1xx-r5xx radeons.  Support
> for r6xx-r7xx is available in 2.6.32.
> 
Thanks!

It works, but I find the lack of documentation disturbing. As it is,
adding radeon.modeset=1 to the commandline switches my screen to the
correct resolution. This is partly because I have a TFT screen on this
laptop. I've not been able to find anything about changing the
resolution, so with a CRT monitor I don't know how you would go about
that.

Also, a hint or two somewhere in linux-2.6.23-rc3/Documentation/ would
be nice. At the moment, the word 'KMS' is not used in any file there. No
wonder I couldn't find it when I configured my kernel.

So far, I've seen 5 good boots and one with a hang (garbage on screen,
hanging laptop) - there's room for improvement yet.

Kind regards,
Jurriaan

-- 
It has a name, among the Voyani.
Lumina Arden. The light that burns.
You will feel its fire, Serra Diora.
	Michelle West - The Broken Crown

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Ati Mobility FireGL V5250 support?

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:25 AM,  <thu...@xs...> wrote:
> From: Alex Deucher <ale...@gm...>
> Date: Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:27:01AM -0400
>>
>> radeonfb doesn't support any avivo-based radeons and never will.  If
>> you want hi-res consoles, use the the new radeon drm with modesetting.
>>  It's available in 2.6.31 and supports all r1xx-r5xx radeons.  Support
>> for r6xx-r7xx is available in 2.6.32.
>>
> Thanks!
>
> It works, but I find the lack of documentation disturbing. As it is,
> adding radeon.modeset=1 to the commandline switches my screen to the
> correct resolution. This is partly because I have a TFT screen on this
> laptop. I've not been able to find anything about changing the
> resolution, so with a CRT monitor I don't know how you would go about
> that.
>
> Also, a hint or two somewhere in linux-2.6.23-rc3/Documentation/ would
> be nice. At the moment, the word 'KMS' is not used in any file there. No
> wonder I couldn't find it when I configured my kernel.
>
> So far, I've seen 5 good boots and one with a hang (garbage on screen,
> hanging laptop) - there's room for improvement yet.

DRM modesetting support is still a bit in flux (that's why it's in
staging).  Support for changing the console fb mode was only recently
added.  It could probably use more documentation though.

Alex