Re: radeon framebuffer console all dark

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi John

John D. Baker wrote:
> This thread describes what I saw quite some time ago when Radeon DRMKMS
> was first imported to NetBSD (almost-black-on-black video, only cursor
> visible, X works fine).  My experience was with older Radeon hardware
> (Radeon 7000, ES1000 and other R100-class cards).
>
> The solution at the time was to simply ignore R200 and earlier radeon
> cards.  Now I wonder if something like the memory size might have been
> the issue as seen in this thread.
>
> I'll have to check the BIOSes of the affected machines to see if they
> have some similar settings (if they did, I don't recall now but I
> have a habit of setting video memory to a minimum when such option
> exists).
>
> That and find the part of the code that checks for the card type to
> disable ignoring R200 and below.

from the dmesg, I see the "R300" firmware is loaded. is this correct?

Does dmesg tell exactly the card I have?


pcictl pci0 list:

001:05:0: ATI Technologies product 5955 (VGA display)

Not very informative.

Riccardo