2.6.3-rc3: radeon blanks screen

[Alessandro Suardi]

On my Dell Latitude C640 as on Peter Osterlund's laptop - blind-typing
 login/password and startx gets me a visible X desktop.

Old driver with Peter's patch works as before.

Note - this is the same laptop you tried I gave up using framebuffer on
 in the 2.4 series because after 2.4.22-pre4 it would send my screen in
 a crazed-up state (X didn't work either) [that was July 2003].


2.6.3-rc3 new driver messages:

radeonfb: Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55
radeonfb: Retreived PLL infos from BIOS
radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=230.00 Mhz, System=166.00 MHz
Non-DDC laptop panel detected
radeonfb: Monitor 1 type LCD found
radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found
radeonfb: panel ID string: 1024x768
radeonfb: detected LVDS panel size from BIOS: 1024x768
radeondb: BIOS provided dividers will be used
radeonfb: Power Management enabled for Mobility chipsets
radeonfb: ATI Radeon LW  DDR SGRAM 32 MB

2.6.3-rc3 old driver messages:

radeonfb_pci_register BEGIN
radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=16600 from BIOS
radeonfb: probed DDR SGRAM 32768k videoram
radeon_get_moninfo: bios 4 scratch = 1000004
radeonfb: panel ID string: 1024x768
radeonfb: detected DFP panel size from BIOS: 1024x768
radeonfb: ATI Radeon M7 LW DDR SGRAM 32 MB
radeonfb: DVI port LCD monitor connected
radeonfb: CRT port no monitor connected
radeonfb_pci_register END
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.9.0 20020828 on minor 0


Please CC me on replies as I'm not on the list. Thanks in advance,

--alessandro

 "Two rivers run too deep
  The seasons change and so do I"
      (U2, "Indian Summer Sky")

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