Thierry Reding writes:
> Applied, thanks.
I once read that this is the recommended way to go, instead of
specifying the timings in the device tree. Why is this so? Any new
display just increases the .text size of the kernel unnessary.
Did this idea stem from the era where bootloaders like Bareb
Kernel: 3.10.19
>From time to time, when I booted, I had a completely dark screen (with
kernel command line quiet) and a non-blinking cursor. I wondered if
that was perhaps gma500. So I turned on various debug checks. Then
I've got the BUG from the subject.
The device is a " VGA compatible contro
Thanks, Anisse, but Dave's answer was wrong anyway. Using a different
user-space-driver wouldn't have magically fixed the bug in the kernel
KMS driver part.
Eventually something newer will pop up in Debian SID and/or Debian
Backports. I'll then pick it. As the performance of the device doesn't
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Thanks, Anisse, but Dave's answer was wrong anyway. Using a different
user-space-driver wouldn't have magically fixed the bug in the kernel
KMS driver part.
Eventually something newer will pop up in Debian SID and/or Debian
Backports. I'll then pick it. As the performance of the device doesn't
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Patrick, have a
Tested-by: Holger Schurig
for this.
As for your suggestion:
> though I recommend you use the modesetting driver because you get
> a hardware accelerated cursor.
The current Debian Wheezy xserver-xorg doesn't autoload the
modesettings X11 driver. And I haven'
Okay, I found the patch that produces my regression:
>From bc794829141f28e14fe7d0e07e35870bd9aee78c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Jakobsson
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 15:27:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 143/209] gma500: h
Okay, I've can now circle the problem out. What did I do:
* I used vanilla-3.9.2 kernel, but brougth drivers/gpu/drm/gma500 to
the state of Linus' git tree commit id
0cdbee3e811b1bbb347c61814c8570658f2ab15c. This was shortly after
gma500 moved out of staging
* then I did "git format-patch
0cdbee3e
Patrick, have a
Tested-by: Holger Schurig
for this.
As for your suggestion:
> though I recommend you use the modesetting driver because you get
> a hardware accelerated cursor.
The current Debian Wheezy xserver-xorg doesn't autoload the
modesettings X11 driver. And I haven'
Okay, I found the patch that produces my regression:
>From bc794829141f28e14fe7d0e07e35870bd9aee78c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Jakobsson
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 15:27:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 143/209] gma500: h
Okay, I've can now circle the problem out. What did I do:
* I used vanilla-3.9.2 kernel, but brougth drivers/gpu/drm/gma500 to
the state of Linus' git tree commit id
0cdbee3e811b1bbb347c61814c8570658f2ab15c. This was shortly after
gma500 moved out of staging
* then I did "git format-patch
0cdbee3e
/13 Patrik Jakobsson :
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Holger Schurig
> wrote:
>> I installed xserver-xorg-video-modesettings (from Debian Wheezy) and also
>> updated xserver-core, -evdev, -vesa and -fbdev. The I started X11. Seems
>> that Debian doesn't yet contain
Thanks Dave, for the fast answer.
I had a new attack of a "BWAAAH, since 5 years graphics drivers for X11 on
Linux are a mess" moment. Things don't work out of the box, and if you try
google-fu, then you get ton's of ancient, outdated or only halfways true
information. Grrr.
That's not downplayin
Hi List,
I've an device with an Intel GMA/Poulsbo chip, PCI ID 8080:8101.
Under (self-compiled) Linux 3.2.31 I've used psb_gfx, now with 3.8.10 I'm
using gma500_gfx.
But now the display under X11 (xserver-xorg-video-fbdev from Debian,
1:0.4.2-4+b2) shows the image moved some lines up on the new
/13 Patrik Jakobsson :
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Holger Schurig
> wrote:
>> I installed xserver-xorg-video-modesettings (from Debian Wheezy) and also
>> updated xserver-core, -evdev, -vesa and -fbdev. The I started X11. Seems
>> that Debian doesn't yet contain
Thanks Dave, for the fast answer.
I had a new attack of a "BWAAAH, since 5 years graphics drivers for X11 on
Linux are a mess" moment. Things don't work out of the box, and if you try
google-fu, then you get ton's of ancient, outdated or only halfways true
information. Grrr.
That's not downplayin
Hi List,
I've an device with an Intel GMA/Poulsbo chip, PCI ID 8080:8101.
Under (self-compiled) Linux 3.2.31 I've used psb_gfx, now with 3.8.10 I'm
using gma500_gfx.
But now the display under X11 (xserver-xorg-video-fbdev from Debian,
1:0.4.2-4+b2) shows the image moved some lines up on the new
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