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On 04/02/2012 01:37 PM, walt wrote: |
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> Hi list. I think some of you have Radeon video cards, right? I'm having |
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> trouble getting my built-in video card to work: |
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> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Complex |
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> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D] |
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> The problem is that the screen goes black during boot if KMS is enabled, |
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> but works just fine when disabled. |
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> I found an error in dmesg, but I don't know how to fix it: |
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> r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/SUMO_pfp.bin" |
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> [drm:evergreen_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! |
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> radeon 0000:00:01.0: disabling GPU acceleration |
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I want to strangle me a kernel dev for this one. Please tell me why these two |
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kernel configs shouldn't be equivalent. |
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This one works: |
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CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/SUMO_pfp.bin radeon/SUMO_me.bin radeon/SUMO_rlc.bin" |
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CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" |
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but this one doesn't work: |
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CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="SUMO_pfp.bin SUMO_me.bin SUMO_rlc.bin" |
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CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/radeon" |
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I finally spotted a (non-fatal) kernel compile error that zooms by so fast on |
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this quad-core machine that I didn't see it the first dozen times. |
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When I finally noticed the error I googled it and found an irate gentoo user on |
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the gentoo forums who wasted his time solving it with the change I quoted above. |
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However, now that the firmware loading problem is fixed, my screen still goes |
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black on bootup. But now it's instantaneous instead of 60 seconds delayed :( |
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I'm back to functioning vesa mode if I boot with radeon.memset=0, but that's |
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not really my goal...yet :p |
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