Request for Testing of Installer X Configuration on PPC

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:21 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Hi.  I've got an ISO for quick testing of anaconda's X configuration
> setup available that's a little bit smaller than a full tree.  All you
> should have to do is download the ISO, burn it to a CD, boot and see
> if
> X starts up.  Then, you can reboot and go back to your normal doings. 
> 
> Note that this is entirely non-destructive.  So you can even run it if
> you are running OS X.  *ANY* results would be helpful.  Please be sure
> to include what you see happen as well as what type of hardware you're
> using (cpu, video, monitor).
> 
> The iso is located at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/mac-x-test.iso.
> The md5sum is 34234b3cdf2d89e4e94031a50f819285

PowerBook1,1 (Rage 128): Works fine. 

PowerBook5,3 (Radeon 9600): Kills machine hard. The kernel has enabled
dynamic clocks and unless X also does so, I see this...

	(II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Disabled 
	(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering not yet supported on Radeon 9500 and newer cards
	(EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
	(EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
... and then it dies.

Ben, is this expected behaviour if the kernel and X disagree about the
use of dynamic clocks? Is this addressed by one of the patches you have
outstanding at http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/xorg/ ?

The second problem with the PB5,3 is that rhpl explicitly specifies
800x600 instead of letting X honour the DDC information. I can see that
rhpl has code to parse this, but it doesn't seem to be doing so...

	(II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
	(II) RADEON(0): clock: 96.2 MHz   Image Size:  367 x 230 mm
	(II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1440  h_sync: 1504  h_sync_end 1536 h_blank_end 1760 h_border: 0
	(II) RADEON(0): v_active: 900  v_sync: 903  v_sync_end 906 v_blanking: 912 v_border: 0
	 <...>
	(II) RADEON(0): Panel size found from DDC: 1440x900
	(II) RADEON(0): Valid Mode from Detailed timing table: 1440x900

This patch to the rhpl-generated XConfig.test makes it work:

--- XConfig.test.orig   2005-05-03 12:51:18.000000000 +0100
+++ XConfig.test        2005-05-03 12:51:05.000000000 +0100
@@ -104,2 +104,3 @@
        Option      "UseFBDev" "true"
+       Option "DynamicClocks" "true"
EndSection
@@ -114,3 +115,2 @@
                Depth     16
-               Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection

Full log at http://david.woodhou.se/Xorg.1.log


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