[ltp] T60p Wifi and Display
Phil Shotton
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:36:21 +0000
Whee heee! It works.
Had to pull from git and build myself, but now have twin-head and
suspend/resume working. Thank you very much for your patient help.
Great work radeon driver developers!
If I can impose one more time, DRI is failing. From Xorg log whole bunch of
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
and finally
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
[dri] Disabling DRI.
The directory /dev/dri is empty. The Xorg dri module is loading, agpgart
and ati_agp kernel modules are present.
I can live without DRI but it would be nice to have everything working.
Cheers
Phil
Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> radeon fails to start at all, even with a minimal xorg.conf. I simply
>> get booted into a 800x600 failsafe screen with my xorg.conf trashed.
>> That's 2.5 days wasted. For now I've gone back to proprietary and living
>> with no suspend/resume, but boy am I fed up with the whole thing.
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>
> You need to make sure you have at least xf86-video-ati version 6.8.0
> or newer. Previous versions didn't support your chip.
>
> Alex
>
>
>> Phil
>>
>> Alex Deucher wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Alex
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for your help. I found a resolution key and removed it, but it
>> >> makes no difference.
>> >> If I boot the laptop out of the dock, I get a 1400x1050 display on the
>> >> laptop. If I then plug the external monitor in and do "xrandr --auto"
>> >> nothing happens.
>> >> I tried "xrandr --output VGA_1 --mode 1280x1024" and the external
>> >> monitor displayed a beautiful mosaic of colours!
>> >>
>> >> So right now, I can have a laptop that suspends but only runs one
>> >> monitor, or one that's dual-head but hangs on sleep. Judging by chat on
>> >> the web I'm not the only one. Colleagues are suggesting I stick Windoze
>> >> back on and after burning over 2 working days on this already I can see
>> >> their point :-(
>> >>
>> >> Interesting that the ATI-based thinkpads always seem cheaper than the
>> >> nvidia ones. I certainly would not use my own money to buy any machine
>> >> with an ATI graphics card.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Have you tried that radeon driver (xf86-video-ati version 6.8.0 or
>> > newer) as I suggested earlier? That will probably work better for
>> > you. You could also file a bug for radeonhd:
>> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org
>> >
>> > Alex
>> >
>> >
>> >> Phil
>> >>
>> >> Alex Deucher wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hi Alex
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I tried the radeonhd driver, and after a bit of fiddling I've managed to
>> >> >> get suspend/resume working - great.
>> >> >> However, with an external monitor plugged in I get no display on the
>> >> >> laptop screen once I've logged in (the login screen shows
>> >> >> on both).
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > This is due to the video resolution gui in gnome (or kde). If you've
>> >> > used the gui to set a mdoe it saves that configuration and resets it
>> >> > when you log in. however, it's not randr 1.2 aware so it doesn't work
>> >> > well with multi-head. It should work if you remove the keys in:
>> >> > /desktop/gnome/screen/$hostname/$screennum/
>> >> >
>> >> > Alex
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> xrandr reports:
>> >> >> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 2800 x 1050
>> >> >> VGA_1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 32mm x 32mm
>> >> >> 1280x1024 75.0*
>> >> >> 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
>> >> >> 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3
>> >> >> 640x480 75.0 72.8 60.0
>> >> >> 720x400 70.1
>> >> >> PANEL connected
>> >> >> 1400x1050 60.0 +
>> >> >> DVI-D_1 disconnected
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Looking in Xorg.0.log (attached) shows lots of "Not using default mode
>> >> >> ...." with "vrefresh out of range" and "hsync out of range" and "height
>> >> >> too large for virtual size" but it still returns the modeline for the
>> >> >> 1400x1050 resolution that xrandr shows.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> My xorg.conf is about as simple as I could make it. Also attached.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers
>> >> >> Phil
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Alex Deucher wrote:
>> >> >> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> After finally getting my T60 working to my satisfaction I've been
>> >> >> >> upgraded(!) to a T60p, and I now have two problems after installing
>> >> >> >> Ubuntu Gutsy:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> 1) Atheros AR5418 wifi card. Not recognized. I've tried using the
>> >> >> >> latest madwifi for this but with no success. The ndiswrapper works fine,
>> >> >> >> but it's not getting loaded at boot. The ndiswrapper config placed an
>> >> >> >> ndiswrapper file in /etc/modprobe.d - containing 1 line:
>> >> >> >> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>> >> >> >> but the driver still doesn't get loaded. If I "modprobe ndiswrapper"
>> >> >> >> everything works fine (in fact I get better wifi performance than with T60).
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> 2) Display. This T60p has an ATI Mobility FireGL V5250. I need dual-head
>> >> >> >> support and the only way I could get that on the T60 (ATI X1400) was to
>> >> >> >> use the ATI proprietary drivers. I'm using the latest 8.452.1 version,
>> >> >> >> and it all works OK except:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > That chips works fine in both radeon (6.8.0 and newer) and radeonhd.
>> >> >> > No 3D yet however.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Alex
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> # xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
>> >> >> #
>> >> >> # This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
>> >> >> # values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
>> >> >> #
>> >> >> # You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
>> >> >> # For example:
>> >> >> # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "ServerLayout"
>> >> >> Identifier "Default Layout"
>> >> >> Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
>> >> >> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
>> >> >> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
>> >> >> InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "Files"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "Module"
>> >> >> Load "glx"
>> >> >> Load "GLcore"
>> >> >> Load "v4l"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "InputDevice"
>> >> >> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
>> >> >> Driver "kbd"
>> >> >> Option "CoreKeyboard"
>> >> >> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
>> >> >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>> >> >> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "InputDevice"
>> >> >> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
>> >> >> Driver "mouse"
>> >> >> Option "CorePointer"
>> >> >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>> >> >> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
>> >> >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>> >> >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "InputDevice"
>> >> >> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
>> >> >> Driver "synaptics"
>> >> >> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>> >> >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>> >> >> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>> >> >> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "Monitor"
>> >> >> Identifier "PANEL"
>> >> >> Option "VendorName" "IBM"
>> >> >> Option "ModelName" "T60p Panel"
>> >> >> Option "DPMS" "true"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "Monitor"
>> >> >> Identifier "VGA_1"
>> >> >> Option "VendorName" "DGM"
>> >> >> Option "ModelName" "LCD Panel"
>> >> >> Option "DPMS" "true"
>> >> >> Option "RightOf" "PANEL"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "Device"
>> >> >> Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>> >> >> Driver "radeonhd"
>> >> >> Option "monitor-VGA_1" "VGA_1"
>> >> >> Option "monitor-PANEL" "PANEL"
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Section "Screen"
>> >> >> Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
>> >> >> Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>> >> >> Monitor "PANEL"
>> >> >> DefaultDepth 24
>> >> >> SubSection "Display"
>> >> >> Virtual 3500 1800
>> >> >> Depth 24
>> >> >> EndSubSection
>> >> >> EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >> #Section "Extensions"
>> >> >> # Option "Composite" "0"
>> >> >> #EndSection
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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