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Greetings.
I have a HP Pavilion m7050e, stock except HDD's.
I was previously able in Unbuntu 10.4 x64 to force bootup & GDM
thru the TV's S-Video out. (Think Mythunbuntu)
Like an idiot I didn't document exactly what I did..
To be honest I had fiddled with it so much, that if I had kept documentation, it would have required a forklift to lift.
When I moved over to 10.10, it was in the hope that the some of the annoying kernel issues I had would be resolved. I'm happy to say that they are, but the video is now once again providing fits.
I started this install clean, and with the X64 Unbuntu 10.10 Alternate distro.
proc: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
TOP:
KMS appears to work, as well as DRM, but it is reporting the asic bug:
The Bios Will only allow a memory window setting of 64 and not 128 as some website have suggested I switch to.
In the 10.4, I HAD to set the VIDEO= in the grub loader. I used 789 normally. I've read where the current KMS and Video will not get along.. I've tried using it, and it will force boot-up thru the S-Video but will not stay when GDM loads. ( I normally suppress quiet and splash)
If I login via SSH and restart GDM, I'm able to submit xrandr commands, otherwise errors about no protocol or no display emit.
Once I'm able to submit xrandr commands, I'm able to set mode and enable the display, but the graphics are tearing, and does not appear to be the correct frequency.
It also appears that the xrandr is not built with load detection
as I'm unable to set it, and it shows :
This is what is resulting from a --prop before manual addition of the S-video mode:
When one presents xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
The only addition is :
I have NOT created a xorg.conf yet. I wanted to find out, if there was a patch for the ASIC bug for this device first of all, and then secondly if there was some bleeding edge build that allows for load detection, as well as refresh rate change or quirk additon to stop the tearing.
One last thing, I had posted originally in the ATI/AMD proprietary Linux driver forum, but I noticed that I had misposted.
Full lspci / dmesg on request.
I will say, that with all the older articles on the previous versions of X / GDM It's gotten confusing.. Some re-direction would be quite helpful.
Gabriel
I have a HP Pavilion m7050e, stock except HDD's.
I was previously able in Unbuntu 10.4 x64 to force bootup & GDM
thru the TV's S-Video out. (Think Mythunbuntu)
Like an idiot I didn't document exactly what I did..
To be honest I had fiddled with it so much, that if I had kept documentation, it would have required a forklift to lift.
When I moved over to 10.10, it was in the hope that the some of the annoying kernel issues I had would be resolved. I'm happy to say that they are, but the video is now once again providing fits.
I started this install clean, and with the X64 Unbuntu 10.10 Alternate distro.
Code:
compuser@MediaCenter:~$ uname -a Linux MediaCenter 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:45:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
TOP:
Code:
top - 18:32:18 up 1:04, 2 users, load average: 0.67, 0.67, 0.58 Tasks: 137 total, 2 running, 135 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 3.0%us, 4.6%sy, 6.3%ni, 86.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1990572k total, 552468k used, 1438104k free, 48956k buffers Swap: 3906556k total, 0k used, 3906556k free, 213260k cached
Code:
[ 12.122987] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)
In the 10.4, I HAD to set the VIDEO= in the grub loader. I used 789 normally. I've read where the current KMS and Video will not get along.. I've tried using it, and it will force boot-up thru the S-Video but will not stay when GDM loads. ( I normally suppress quiet and splash)
If I login via SSH and restart GDM, I'm able to submit xrandr commands, otherwise errors about no protocol or no display emit.
Once I'm able to submit xrandr commands, I'm able to set mode and enable the display, but the graphics are tearing, and does not appear to be the correct frequency.
It also appears that the xrandr is not built with load detection
as I'm unable to set it, and it shows :
Code:
compuser@MediaCenter:~$ xrandr --output S-video --set load detection 1 X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) Major opcode of failed request: 150 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 11 (RRQueryOutputProperty) Serial number of failed request: 27 Current serial number in output stream: 27
Code:
compuser@MediaCenter:~$ xrandr --prop
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 800 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-0 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
load detection: 1 (0x00000001) range: (0,1)
1360x768 59.8
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3* 56.2
848x480 60.0
640x480 59.9 59.9
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
tv standard: ntsc
supported: ntsc pal pal-m pal-60 ntsc-j scart-pal pal-cn secam
load detection: 0 (0x00000000) range: (0,1)
When one presents xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
The only addition is :
Code:
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
tv standard: ntsc
supported: ntsc pal pal-m pal-60 ntsc-j scart-pal pal-cn secam
load detection: 0 (0x00000000) range: (0,1)
800x600 60.3
One last thing, I had posted originally in the ATI/AMD proprietary Linux driver forum, but I noticed that I had misposted.
Full lspci / dmesg on request.
I will say, that with all the older articles on the previous versions of X / GDM It's gotten confusing.. Some re-direction would be quite helpful.
Gabriel
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