Re: [BISECTED] commit 619efb1059 makes the MacBookPro2,2 screen flicker like its broken or half plugged in

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Justin Mattock
<justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Justin P. Mattock
>>> <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> With the current HEAD Im getting screen flickering really bad to point
>>>> where
>>>> it looks like the screen is damaged and/or half plugged-in etc..
>>>>
>>>> the bisect pointed to here:
>>>>
>>>> commit 619efb105924d8cafa0c1dd9389e9ab506f5425d
>>>>
>>>> doing a git revert 619efb10592
>>>> gets the screen working properly again.
>>>> I havent looked much through the code to see if I can fix this. for the
>>>> time
>>>> being I'll revert this on my machine with the current, until later on.
>>>
>>> The attached patch should fix it assuming I got your pci ids correct.
>>> I'm done with the pll stuff; too may fixes break other boards.  Just
>>> add a quirk table and be done with it.
>>>
>>
>> The attached patch builds on the previous one and fixes an additional
>> regression.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> <0001-drm-radeon-kms-pll-quirk-cleanup.patch>
>
> alright... didn't mean to keep you waiting(out of my office for most of the
> day)..
> Anyways patch applied, and everything looks good no screen jitters or
> flickering etc..
>
> Reported-and-Tested-by: Justin P. Mattock<justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for sending this my way so my machine works..

Justin, can you try without these patches, but with the following patch instead?

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
index cc6bdd8..2f9d113 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_crtc.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static u32 atombios_adjust_pll(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
                                }
                        }
 /* this might work properly with the new pll algo */
-#if 0 /* doesn't work properly on some laptops */
+#if 1 /* doesn't work properly on some laptops */
                        /* use recommended ref_div for ss */
                        if (radeon_encoder->devices &
(ATOM_DEVICE_LCD_SUPPORT)) {
                                if (ss_enabled) {


>
> cheers,
>
> Justin P. Mattock
>
_______________________________________________
dri-devel mailing list
dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel



[Index of Archives]     [Linux DRI Users]     [Linux Intel Graphics]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux