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Mick, |
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Thanks for your response and suggestion ! |
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When compiled the new kernel, there was no error message. I can use the new |
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kernel to boot my laptop successfully. So that I am sure that the relative |
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firmware filenames I gave are correct. |
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I will try another kernel version or Evergreen firmware this weekend. |
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Thank you ! |
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Regards, |
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Phil |
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 27 Mar 2016 00:23:21 JingYuan Chen wrote: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I had installed Gentoo in my laptop successfully last weekend. My laptop |
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> > is Toshiba Satellite L840. I found that my VGA card is Radeon HD 7670M |
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> > using "lspci -k" command. Therefore, I refer to Gentoo's Radeon wiki page |
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> > to configure 4.1.15-r1 kernel with TURKS firmware and emerge |
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> linux-firmware |
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> > atom. |
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> > However, my new kernel can not load TURKS successfully. I notice that |
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> there |
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> > is an error message with DRM in dmesg's output. It shows |
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> > [drm:evergreen_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware. |
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> So the kernel *wants* to load the Evergreen firmware blobs. |
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> > Why Evergreen ? Is not Northern Islands ? I am sure that the filename I |
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> > gave is TURKS's firmware in menuconfig. |
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> Sure, but the kernel seems to think that the hardware is evergreen for some |
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> reason. The Radeon HD 7670M apparently is based on the same chipset as |
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> Radeon |
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> HD 6650M: |
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> http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-7670M.69483.0.html |
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> so it may be that the foundry it came out of was of an Evergreen batch. |
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> > How could I make the dmesg's error message more verbose to debug ? |
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> > Are there some configurations should I check again ? |
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> > p.s. I built it in kernel not in modules. |
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> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
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> > |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Phil |
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> I would first check that you have in your menuconfig the complete space |
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> separated Turks stanza: |
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> radeon/BTC_rlc.bin radeon/TURKS_mc.bin radeon/TURKS_me.bin |
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> radeon/TURKS_pfp.bin radeon/TURKS_smc.bin radeon/SUMO_uvd.bin |
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> and make sure there are no misspellings in there. If it still complains, |
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> then |
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> replace these with the Evergreen (or whatever dmesg complains about) and |
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> try |
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> booting again. |
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> BTW, have you tried booting different kernels, or LiveISOs to see what they |
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> detect the hardware as? |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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