Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Situation on radeonfb

[Ani J. <aj...@un...>]

Marcello and Linus will recieve an update in the next week or so.


ani


On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Hanno [ISO-8859-15] B=F6ck wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I own a Sony Vaio with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY.
>
> The Situation with radeonfb at the moment is not very good for me.
> 1. I need a fix that has been around for ages, but not added to the main
> kernel (see patch below).
> 2. There seem to be two updates for the radeonfb in kernel 2.4 floating
> arount. One from Ani Joshi which was part of the ac-kernel, but has
> recently been dropped. So it's not likely that it will become part of
> the main kernel. This Update works for me.
> Another one from the mplayer-team, which doesn't work for me at all,
> even if I add the fix below.
>
> By the way, the 2.5-version of the radeonfb also doesn't work at all for
> me, even if I add the fix below and change the constant-names to the
> ones used in 2.5.
>
> I would really like to have a working radeonfb. Is there currently any
> work done on this? Can we at least send the fix below to marcello and
> ask him to integrate this soon?
>
>
>
> --- radeonfb.c.orig=09Thu May  9 16:51:26 2002
> +++ radeonfb.c=09Thu May  9 16:48:46 2002
> @@ -877,6 +877,14 @@
>  =09/* mem size is bits [28:0], mask off the rest */
>  =09rinfo->video_ram =3D tmp & CONFIG_MEMSIZE_MASK;
>
> +=09/* According to XFree86 4.2.0, some production M6's return 0
> +=09   for 8MB. */
> +=09if (rinfo->video_ram =3D=3D 0 &&
> +=09    (pdev->device =3D=3D PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_LY ||
> +=09     pdev->device =3D=3D PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_LZ)) {
> +=09    rinfo->video_ram =3D 8192 * 1024;
> +=09  }
> +
>  =09/* ram type */
>  =09tmp =3D INREG(MEM_SDRAM_MODE_REG);
>  =09switch ((MEM_CFG_TYPE & tmp) >> 30) {
>
>
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