Re: amd64 radeondrmkms near-invisble text

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

I've just now observed this same phenomenon on an HP ProLiant DL380 G5.

NetBSD 7.99.5 (GENERIC) #223: Sun Feb 22 18:51:01 CST 2015
        sysop%yggdrasil.technoskunk.fur@localhost:/r0/build/current/obj/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 8189 MB
avail memory = 7933 MB
[...]
HP ProLiant DL380 G5
[...]
radeon0 at pci16 dev 3 function 0: ATI Technologies ES1000 (rev. 0x02)
drm: initializing kernel modesetting (RV100 0x1002:0x515E 0x103C:0x31FB).
drm: register mmio base: 0xf7ff0000
drm: register mmio size: 65536
radeon0: info: VRAM: 128M 0x00000000D8000000 - 0x00000000DFFFFFFF (32M used)
radeon0: info: GTT: 512M 0x00000000B8000000 - 0x00000000D7FFFFFF
drm: Detected VRAM RAM=80M, BAR=128M
drm: RAM width 16bits DDR
Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 2805886 kiB
Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
drm: radeon: 32M of VRAM memory ready
drm: radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
drm: GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
drm: PCI GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000000454B4000).
radeon0: info: WB disabled
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x00000000b8000000 and cpu addr 0x0xffff800099aa5000
drm: Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
drm: Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
radeon0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 23 (radeon)
drm: radeon: irq initialized.
drm: Loading R100 Microcode
warning: no /dev/console
drm: radeon: ring at 0x00000000B8001000
drm: ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
drm: ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
drm: No TV DAC info found in BIOS
drm: Radeon Display Connectors
drm: Connector 0:
drm:   VGA-1
drm:   DDC: 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60
drm:   Encoders:
drm:     CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC1
drm: Connector 1:
drm:   VGA-2
drm:   DDC: 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c
drm:   Encoders:
drm:     CRT2: INTERNAL_DAC2
radeondrmkmsfb0 at radeon0
radeon0: info: registered panic notifier
radeondrmkmsfb0: framebuffer at 0xffff800099f58000, size 1024x768, depth 8, stride 1024
wsdisplay0 at radeondrmkmsfb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0


I'm using a random ViewSonic VGA LCD display I picked up at a thrift
store--maybe it has issues.  I have a couple other displays I can try.


Also, the Dell PowerEdge 2850 had no problems loading the radeon firmware
over NFS, but the HP would apparently fail, followed by the "panic:
cnopen: no console device!"

Next up:  Dell PowerEdge 2950.

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