Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-06-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Michael Michael wrote: did so. Still get a black screen. Before going black, I am able to see a "failed". Also, it hangs, because if I wait some time I can't login remotely (left dhcp on). This is odd, but it's a data point at least. Before trying to recompile the kernel once again, I

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-06-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi John & Michael, since I borrowed the monitor of my workstation to do tests for radeonfb I also thougt to take the time and test what the radeondrm would do with an external monitor! set bool radeon_pci_ignore_r100_r200 = false; and recompile (commenting out radeonfb* just not to

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-31 Thread Rhialto
On Thu 30 May 2024 at 10:44:10 -0400, Michael wrote: > Does Xorg run with a radeon driver on any OS at all? If so, could you > send me the xorg.0.log from such a thing? That should give at least a > hint on what we get wrong. With NetBSD 9 I used to run my amd64 machine with Driver "radeon" and

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-30 Thread Michael
Hello, On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:11:17 + Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Did it crash or did if continue booting? If it continued to boot > > radeonfb likely got the wiring of outputs to displays wrong. > > With that, please try with options RADEONFB_BIOS_INIT, which adds code > >

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John D. Baker wrote: Interesting that this works for you. I have several machines with the ATI ES1000 rev. 0x02 (RN50) video device: HP DL380G5, HP ML310G4, IBM x3650, Dell PowerEdge 2850 and they all exhibit the "almost-black-on-black" video problem when booting a kernel built with the

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Martin, Martin Neitzel wrote: A zillion thanks to John Baker for mailing this! I changed this on my old HP Proliant DL360 G6 with its ATI ES1000 (RV100) onboard graphics two weeks ago and --voila-- instant karma! I envy you! I have a newer chip but it still doesn't like to run :)

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-23 Thread Martin Neitzel
JDB> Interesting that this works for you. I have several machines with the JDB> ATI ES1000 rev. 0x02 (RN50) video device: HP DL380G5, HP ML310G4, IBM JDB> x3650, Dell PowerEdge 2850 and they all exhibit the "almost-black-on-black" JDB> video problem when booting a kernel built with the patch

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-23 Thread John D. Baker
On Thu, 23 May 2024, Martin Neitzel wrote: > Another late responder, a happy one, though: > > > > The following patch (against -current from about 4 years ago) will > > > enable matching R100/R200 devices: > > > > > > +Index: sys/external/bsd/drm2/radeon/radeon_pci.c > > > [...] > > > + /* Set

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-23 Thread Martin Neitzel
Another late responder, a happy one, though: > > The following patch (against -current from about 4 years ago) will > > enable matching R100/R200 devices: > > > > +Index: sys/external/bsd/drm2/radeon/radeon_pci.c > > [...] > > + /* Set this to false if you want to match R100/R200 */ > > +-bool

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi John sorry for the late reply... needed some NetBSD hack time to find to patch and recompile the kernel. John D. Baker wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > That looks like the same description of the radeon device in my T42 > ThinkPad: IN some sense the T43 is successor

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Michael wrote: > Did it crash or did if continue booting? If it continued to boot > radeonfb likely got the wiring of outputs to displays wrong. > With that, please try with options RADEONFB_BIOS_INIT, which adds code > to scan the BIOS for output info. This is not enabled by default >

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-14 Thread Michael
Hello, On Wed, 8 May 2024 10:14:55 + Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Michael wrote: > >> How do I enable radeonfb? Can I do it through configurations or do I > >> need to compile my own kernel to try? > > radeonfb* at pci? > > > > I copied that line from ALL to my custom kernel

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-08 Thread John D. Baker
On Tue, 7 May 2024, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > John D. Baker wrote: > > As you have seen, the "radeon*" and "radeondrmkmsfb*" drivers do not > > attach on "r100" class devices. They have been explicitly excluded > > because early in the DRMKMS integration in NetBSD, they exhibited the > >

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-08 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Michael wrote: >> How do I enable radeonfb? Can I do it through configurations or do I >> need to compile my own kernel to try? > radeonfb* at pci? > I copied that line from ALL to my custom kernel build which I did for iwi debug. I just get a big black screen... no text, no white cursor.

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John D. Baker wrote: > As you have seen, the "radeon*" and "radeondrmkmsfb*" drivers do not > attach on "r100" class devices. They have been explicitly excluded > because early in the DRMKMS integration in NetBSD, they exhibited the > "(almost) black-on-black" video problem described in: I

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-07 Thread John D. Baker
As you have seen, the "radeon*" and "radeondrmkmsfb*" drivers do not attach on "r100" class devices. They have been explicitly excluded because early in the DRMKMS integration in NetBSD, they exhibited the "(almost) black-on-black" video problem described in:

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Michael, Michael wrote: > > Yeah, I fixed a few problems there, xrender support was broken for r1xx> > Sun's xvr-100 card is a rebadged rv100... Wonderful... eager to test. >> How do I enable radeonfb? Can I do it through configurations or do I >> need to compile my own kernel to try? > >

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-07 Thread Michael
Hello, On Tue, 7 May 2024 08:19:33 + Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Radeonfb should Just Work(tm) - it's used mainly on macppc and sparc64 > > but I'm pretty sure it's been run on at least some little endian hw > > before. > > according to radeon manpage, mine would have an R100, the

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Michael, Michael wrote: > Radeonfb should Just Work(tm) - it's used mainly on macppc and sparc64 > but I'm pretty sure it's been run on at least some little endian hw > before. according to radeon manpage, mine would have an R100, the earliest supported on X11. How do I enable radeonfb? Can

Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-06 Thread Michael
Hello, On Mon, 6 May 2024 23:17:12 + Riccardo Mottola wrote: > X11, which appears to run fine, reports it as: > [ 646.096] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16320 kB > [ 646.096] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500 > [ 646.096] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev:

framebuffer console on old ATI

2024-05-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I notice that on 10.0 (but was the same on 9.x too) my old ThinkPad T30 runs in VGA text. Is there a specific limitaiton for the embedded videocard? a choice? or something I can try enabling? dmesg reports it as: [ 1.005536] acpivga0 at acpi0 (VID): ACPI Display Adapter [ 1.005536]