[openbeos] Re: Radeon, DVI and Port Replicator

  • From: "Petter Holt Juliussen" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:21:04 +0100 (CET)

This driver did the trick. Somewhat. I installed it in BeOS R5, and I was
able to boot into BeOS - with colors. Then I changed the
resolution to my maximum 1680x1050, and everything seemed to work. Then,
when starting to play around in the OS, the driver
would cause all kinds of different problems. When opening the Deskbar
menu, everything would disappear leaving only my desktop
background and some random squares / white lines and such. Same thing
happened with different resolutions, only in  different "ways".

I also tried copying the driver unmodified to my Haiku partition,
replacing the original Haiku Radeon driver. Haiku booted, with
colors. When trying to change the resolution up, I got an error saying my
card wasn't supported. I guess the driver didn't work, and
it was disabled. At least this time I got into Haiku with colors using the
DVI output on my port replicator, so it seems that the routing
worked when not using the Radeon driver (VESA?).

It seems that the driver that Euan provided worked out the routing issues,
but introduced several others.

Thanks,
Petter

euank_lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a zip of newer code radeon driver code around in mid port.  I can
see if I can dig it out sometime tonight or sunday evening. If you look
on the bebits radeon driver talkback, you can find binaries and source
snapshots of that work in progress.  I did a little bit of work last
week with haiku and my radeon update trying to get up-to-date. 
Unfortunately I just don't have enough time in the day. :)  I don't know
how you guys do it!
>
> Additionally if it works in Linux there's probably a good chance it can
be made to work in Beos.   My version is pre-superpatch that was the
x.orgs re-design on the monitor routing, as Thomas orginally did a good
job on it anyway  It's always worked very well, esp. with multi-mon, so
I didn't want to break it...
>
> I'll see if I can dig something up...
>
> Euan
>
>

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