From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264386AbUADAwu (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:52:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264405AbUADAwu (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:52:50 -0500 Received: from luli.rootdir.de ([213.133.108.222]:53401 "EHLO luli.rootdir.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264386AbUADAwt (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:52:49 -0500 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: claas@rootdir.de via luli X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:1(217.186.136.236):SA:0(-4.4/5.0):. Processed in 0.211378 secs) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:52:46 +0100 From: Claas Langbehn To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dani=EBl?= Mantione Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: 2.6.0: atyfb broken Message-ID: <20040104005246.GA2153@rootdir.de> References: <20040103233728.GA22427@rootdir.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Reply-By: Wed Jan 7 01:36:48 CET 2004 X-Message-Flag: Cranky? Try Free Software instead! X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.1-rc1 i686 X-No-archive: yes X-Uptime: 01:36:48 up 53 min, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.09, 0.09 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Daniël! > What to do? > > The best thing you can try is to connect a CRT. Its a handy tool (it > eats any video mode, including wrong ones) to check if the driver does > something wrong. Use it to inspect geometry and the horizontal & vertical > refresh rates. The CRT should dislay 1024x768 60 Hz in all resolutions > (unless you switch off the LCD display). > > Compile Atyfb as module. Use fbset to switch video modes blindly. Check > the following modes: 640x400, 640x480, 1024x768. Okay, the external monitor was a good idea. I can boot with the external monitor and atyfb. when I do fbset 1024x768-60, then the screen gets distorted, then I hit Fn + F5 (Monitor selection) several times, and finally I get a working picture. So tell me how we can do register debuggig. Regards, claas