On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:14 AM, J?rg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at t-online.de> wrote: > Alex Deucher wrote, on 07/03/2013 00:49: >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:34 PM, J?rg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at web.de> wrote: >>> Alex Deucher wrote, on 07/02/2013 22:17: >>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:15 PM, J?rg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at web.de> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Alex Deucher wrote, on 07/02/2013 21:46: >>>>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:09 AM, J?rg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at web.de> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> With self-compiled linux 3.10 on a HP Pavilion dv7 with hybrid graphics >>>>>>> (ATI >>>>>>> RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series] / ATI Manhattan [Mobility >>>>>>> Radeon HD 5400 >>>>>>> Series]) uvd seems to be broken. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The new firware files are installed in /lib/firmware/radeon: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> sha1 hashes >>>>>>> 3142a64061ade6032c95ed948c85b15dd0ae46be CEDAR_me.bin >>>>>>> a92856a4fa16926e2451a6335da7e20f01fde210 CEDAR_pfp.bin >>>>>>> 644b29756636687ad31a49da4aa3ed85dcedecdb CEDAR_rlc.bin >>>>>>> 992d49518d3936986b5ce3ddb0d9bbd75135bb8f CYPRESS_uvd.bin >>>>>>> 3e04529600d666ddb2f2f83bb0112d4fab516c04 R600_rlc.bin >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The system boots without initial ram disk. >>>>>> >>>>>> Make sure your system is using the latest CEDAR_rlc.bin as well. >>>>>> >>>>>> Alex >>>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the hint, Alex. Actually I took the files today from your >>>>> repository >>>>> at http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ and checked them >>>>> against >>>>> the ones downloaded from >>>>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git . >>>> >>>> Make sure that your kernel is actually using the new ones. >>>> >>>> Alex >>>> >>> >>> The files are located in /lib/firmware/radeon , the kernel configuration >>> contains >>> >>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin radeon/R600_rlc.bin >>> radeon/CEDAR_me.bin radeon/CEDAR_pfp.bin radeon/CEDAR_rlc.bin >>> radeon/CYPRESS_uvd.bin" >>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" >>> >>> I compiled the kernel with the firmware files already in >>> /lib/firmware/radeon . >>> The kernel boots without initial ram disk. >>> >> >> I've encountered people having all sorts of problems with stale or >> truncated firmware, so I just wanted to double check. The best test >> would be to build the driver as a module and blacklist the module, >> then, once the system is booted to a non-X runlevel, manually load the >> module so it loads the ucode directly from the filesystem. >> >> Alex >> > Thank you Alex, for insisting. The "Denkfehler" was indeed at my side: At > first, > I compiled the kernel with the old firmware. Then I noticed the missing > firmware > module "CYPRESS_uvd.bin". After an information trip around the internet, I > downloaded the missing and the up-to-date firmware modules and put them into > place as well as adapted the kernel configuration. > Then I just did a new "make" in the kernel directory. > > But, it seems the make rules don't recognize changed firmware modules. In the > end I still saw the described error messages in the dmesg-output. > Today, after reading your e-mail I came to this conclusion and recompiled the > kernel completely, i.e., beginning with a "make clean". And, voil?, everything > now works.
Glad to hear you got it working! Alex
