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On February 11, 2003 10:21 pm, DaRonin wrote: |
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> I am currently running ppc-sources-2.4.20-r2.ebuild. I had to modify the |
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> radeonfb.c in the kernel to get my Cinema display going without the silly |
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> mirroring mode. I noticed that there were a few changes made in radeonfb |
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> support in ben-5. Unfortunately in ben-4 and up the LCD doesn't blank when |
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> I run on external display, instead it goes all white. I had no success in |
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> tracking down that problem as of yet. |
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> daRonin |
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Ahh, hmm. I have an idea as to what it may be. Some of the radeon changes in |
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ben5 were to address some DFP's not coming back to life in radeonfb after it |
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shut them down (while suffling memory around). Think it was in memory_fixup |
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function. I would start sniffing there. Ben had to change the call slightly |
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to avoid this. |
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BTW, this problem was specifically with 7500 + DFP afaik (like on my machine, |
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I helped ben chase that bug down), reverting it may help things. Not sure |
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what otehr changes he made there, likely stuff for M9/9000 as well |
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Gerk |
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