On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just switched to using HDMI with my media center, and its causing a 30+ > second delay in the screen turning on, as well as a 7 second delay in the X > startup when it tries to fetch the EDID information. Basically I don't get any > picture at all once KMS initializes until after X has been up a few seconds. > > The odd thing is the monitor seems to think something is going on, since it > doesn't go to sleep or display its "No Signal" OSD, but just after X starts > up, it pops up the "Input detected/switched" OSD, and the picture appears. > > The bios, grub2 (in both text mode and graphics mode), and the initial linux > kernel messages all display fine and immediately. Its only once KMS and > radeondrmfb initializes that there's a problem (at least till X starts up). > > I've just built with a vanila 2.6.38.4 kernel from the stable git repo, and > have played with some EDID settings, trying to disable edid where I could > thinking thats what caused the problem. That doesn't seem to be the case > though. I also tried playing with the video= kernel option, trying to force > disable VGA-1, and set a static mode for HDMI-A-1, but if I try, it seems to > force disable HDMI-A-1 instead of force the mode. > > With a DVI-D cable instead, the problem goes away. > > Attached are the dmesg and xorg.log files for the latest boot with HDMI (no > video= parameter, and EDID enabled, most settings at defaults). > > What exactly would cause this, and is there a way I can fix it? Most likely, the monitor doesn't like the hdmi packets it's getting from the GPU. If you don't need audio, boot 2.6.38 or newer with radeon.audio=0 Alex > > -- > Thomas Fjellstrom > thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
