Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

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On Aug 7, 2005, at 12:13:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
I've got an LCD, and on mine
it looks like every third pixel-line gets shifted about 32-64 pixels to
the left, and they move with display refresh.  My guess is that
something is interrupting radeonfb during a critical time in display
syncing and forcing the video card to wait too far into the next line
before sending pixels.

radeonfb is mostly inactive after it has setup the framebuffer and
unless you actually draw something, in which case, accel code is called.

_However_ there is an unrelated problem with some panels, including some
of the 17": The panel doesn't always "sync" properly. This seem to be
related to some subtle timing issue in the LVDS code but I don't know
exactly what yet. You can usually get it back by repeately turning the
backlight all the way down (which shuts the panel off) and back up until
it "catches".

Hmm.  This doesn't really fit as my issues are very reproducible.  The
behaviour under stock Debian 2.6.8 is identical during reboots and after
fblevel 0 ; sleep X ; fblevel 15.  Likewise, stock 2.6.11, 2.6.12.4, and
2.6.13-rc5, although I'm just getting back to testing things.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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