AMD Video BIOS Disassembler and ATi RS485

Joshua C. joshuacov at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 10 10:04:35 UTC 2009


2009/1/9 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 22:14 +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
>> I (and maybe others) still have problems with kernel modesetting and
>> my ATi RS482 (RS485). Dave Airlie fixed it but then it broke again.
>> Bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472310.This is
>> the reason I still stick with f9. Maybe I can help if I manage to dump
>> the video bios of my card. According to this
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_atombios_dumper&num=1
>> it should be possible but rhd_conntest works only for R500 and R600.
>> Any Idea how to use this with my RS485?
>
> Its not useful at all for older chipsets, we have all the functionality
> in open source radeontool for ages, not sure why the release is a big
> deal.
>
> I'm not working at the moment, but I was going to suggest rs485 people
> try booting with radeon.gartsize=32 to see if it helps.
>
> Dave..

With 2.6.27.10-167.fc10.x86_64 I got `Unknown boot option
`radeon.gartsize=32': ignoring`. Did I miss something?




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