Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:35:56 -0800 From: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The default driver/mode used for PowerMac G5 Radeon 9800PRO's messes up all normal text display by default... Message-ID: <39FF818C-AEFF-431C-A16C-5FDB26C3A06F@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <CAHSQbTB7GCnUaSW0KN9Y=bFk1Bt-Q9UuxNj3bcYmS9zL%2BT9OTw@mail.gmail.com> References: <D238B09A-7C6D-4F30-B7CB-DFD4029DB9C2@dsl-only.net> <653F809A-C7E1-4326-88F5-104F7FA76EB1@dsl-only.net> <CAHSQbTB7GCnUaSW0KN9Y=bFk1Bt-Q9UuxNj3bcYmS9zL%2BT9OTw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi. FYI: I've been building and trying Jean-S=E9bastien P=E9dron's = kms-drm-update-38 branch when Jean requested (sometimes with patches = that Jean provided). This was to give Jean some (indirect) access to a = powerpc64 (PowerMac G5) Radeon context for some radeonkms development. = (Jean had been hoping to get my card going in that context.) We got to = the point that a kldload for radeonkms did not complain/refuse but the = display was then munged up and the driver could not find the Video BIOS. = The fact that it is a Radeon X1950 for the video hardware may make it = odder than usual for PowerMac G5 Radeons. But it is the only Radeon that = I have access to for G5's. (The card works in Mac OS X 10.5.) As for my using the G5s on my own: In more recent times I build = powerpc64/GENRIC64 10.x variants with both vt and sc (so no ps3 support = since it does not have sc support). Then I boot whichever seems to work = best for the video hardware, display size, and usage combination that I = intend. (I tend to move the same SSD between G5 contexts.) I also have access to a NVIDIA card I could put in place instead if I = wanted or needed to. But that would duplicate another PowerMac G5 = context that I have access to. My FreeBSD activity is personal and my work activity in recent times has = stopped me from being noticeably active with FreeBSD for a while: I've = basically only been occasionally doing something Jean has requested. So = the above material is actually old and technically I do not yet know = what a vt and sc (no ps3) 10.1-RELEASE variant would be like for the = issues. (Not that I expect a lot of changes of status from early = November.) When I get back to FreeBSD I'll probably track 10.1-STABLE = mostly as far as strictly personal use goes. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net On Nov 21, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> = wrote: Just catching this. The radeon.ko driver is barely functional for PowerPC. I recommend removing it before trying again (we should just disable it, since it's useless right now, and instead put effort into getting the radeonkms working). - Justin
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