Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan Baynes
Hello, Just built a 64bit lfs 6.6, everything went smoothly, excellent work as always! I've been playing around with the 2.6.33 kernel including the new radeon driver. The results are pretty awesome. I now have a high resolution console that is a pleasure to use. I was thinking it might be a

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On 05/03/10 09:38, Duncan Baynes wrote: > Hello, > > Just built a 64bit lfs 6.6, everything went smoothly, excellent work as > always! > > I've been playing around with the 2.6.33 kernel including the new radeon > driver. > > The results are pretty awesome. I now have a high resolution console > th

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan Baynes
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:24:29 +, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 05/03/10 09:38, Duncan Baynes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Just built a 64bit lfs 6.6, everything went smoothly, excellent work as >> always! >> >> I've been playing around with the 2.6.33 kernel including the new radeon >> driver. >> >> The

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan Baynes
> > > This code support the following hardware : R1XX,R2XX,R3XX,R4XX,R5XX > > (radeon up to X1950). Works is underway to provide support for R6XX, > > R7XX and newer hardware (radeon from HD2XXX to HD4XXX). > > I live in hope > > Andy Also, I'm using the attached firmware R700_rlc.bin Desc

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On 05/03/10 11:36, Duncan Baynes wrote: > > Also, I'm using the attached firmware > My hd4870 uses the radeon/RV770_pfp.bin and RV770_me.bin that comes with the kernel source. Where did you get this R700_rlc.bin and how do I get the kernel to use it? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On 05/03/10 11:33, Duncan Baynes wrote: > I couldn't get the kernel to find the firmware so early in the boot > sequence without using initrd, however I'll have another run at getting it > working sans initrd if you think that will work. > Another option I've tried (which also hung the system if ke

E2fsprogs patch

2010-03-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I have submitted a patch upstream to the E2fsprogs maintainers to add a function to the libcom_err library so that it will be compatible with Heimdal. Without the patch to E2fsprogs, Heimdal will end up adding a new libcom_err library in /usr/lib and overwrite the .so file that points to t

Re: E2fsprogs patch

2010-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have submitted a patch upstream to the E2fsprogs maintainers to add a > function to the libcom_err library so that it will be compatible with > Heimdal. Without the patch to E2fsprogs, Heimdal will end up adding a > new libcom_err library in /usr/lib and overw

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 05/03/10 09:38, Duncan Baynes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Just built a 64bit lfs 6.6, everything went smoothly, excellent work as >> always! >> >> I've been playing around with the 2.6.33 kernel including the new radeon >> driver. >> >> The resu

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan Baynes
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:29:44 +, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 05/03/10 11:33, Duncan Baynes wrote: >> I couldn't get the kernel to find the firmware so early in the boot >> sequence without using initrd, however I'll have another run at getting >> it >> working sans initrd if you think that will w

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Martin Ward
On 05/03/10 20:59, Duncan Baynes wrote: > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:29:44 +, Andrew Benton > wrote: > >> On 05/03/10 11:33, Duncan Baynes wrote: >> >>> I couldn't get the kernel to find the firmware so early in the boot >>> sequence without using initrd, however I'll have another run at

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On 05/03/10 20:59, Duncan Baynes wrote: > There is a 60 second timeout period where the kernel strives to locate the > firmware... so far the only way I could get rid of this delay was to use > initrd... I see. Strange, as the firmware is built into the kernel. I get the same delay if I compile i

Re: Radeon DRM

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On 05/03/10 23:32, Martin Ward wrote: > its a bug in udev, if relevant firmware is missing it hangs for about 60 > secs trying to load the missing module, two ways to fix this > > either grab the missing firm ware from > http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ > That page has 2 pieces of