Re: RV350 AQ: not possible to select screen left of other screen, only clone mode is possible

[Jonathan Nieder]

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Ben Hutchings wrote:

> In version 3.2.35-1 I changed radeon to disable KMS when firmware is not
> installed, because this generally doesn't work.  Previously the driver
> would try to continue and this would often cause memory corruption or a
> blank screen.
>
> However, for the older chips such as the R300 family radeon should be
> able to do KMS without any firmware (only 3D acceleration will be
> disabled, as before).  I changed the driver again in 3.2.39-1 to revert
> to the previous behaviour for these chips.

Merging optimistically with the other "please enable KMS without
firmware on R300-era cards" bug.  Thanks for a reminder.


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Re: RV350 AQ: not possible to select screen left of other screen, only clone mode is possible

[Jonathan Nieder]

# regression
severity 702668 important
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Hi,

Jaap van Wingerde wrote:

> Version: 3.2.35-2
[...]
> It is not possible to select a screen right or left of other screen, only 
> clone
> mode is possible (gnome-control-center display). With 
> linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64
> this works perfect.
[...]
> [   31.122989] pci :01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
> [   31.425620] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> [   31.425750] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
> [   31.455633] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent aborted loading 
> radeon/R300_cp.bin (not found?)
> [   31.456061] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
[...]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee 
> ATI RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600] [1002:4151] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A9600SE [1043:c004]

Thanks for reporting.  Is the firmware-linux-nonfree package installed?

Either way, please attach output from

reportbug --template xserver-xorg-video-radeon

Hope that helps,
Jonathan


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