Re: framebuffer console on old ATI

[Martin Neitzel <neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost>]

JDB> Interesting that this works for you.  I have several machines with the
JDB> ATI ES1000 rev. 0x02 (RN50) video device: HP DL380G5, HP ML310G4, IBM
JDB> x3650, Dell PowerEdge 2850 and they all exhibit the "almost-black-on-black"
JDB> video problem when booting a kernel built with the patch applied and
JDB> radeondrmkms, etc. enabled.

In case it helps, this works for me with netbsd-10-stable and the
one-line change.  pcictl(1) says

	001:03:0: ATI Technologies ES1000 (VGA display, revision 0x02)

Here is the pertaining dmesg block:

[drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV100 0x1002:0x515E 0x103C:0x31FB 0x02).
[drm] register mmio base: 0xf5ff0000
[drm] register mmio size: 65536
radeon0: VRAM: 128M 0x00000000E8000000 - 0x00000000EFFFFFFF (64M used)
radeon0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000C8000000 - 0x00000000E7FFFFFF
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=80M, BAR=128M
[drm] RAM width 16bits DDR
Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 9007199253233986 KiB
Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 KiB
[drm] radeon: 64M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[drm] PCI GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000000451D2000).
radeon0: WB disabled
radeon0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x00000000c8000000 and cpu addr 0x0xffffa6bfc272f000
[drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
radeon0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 23 (radeon0)
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] Loading R100 Microcode
[drm] radeon: ring at 0x00000000C8001000
[drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[drm] No TV DAC info found in BIOS
[drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[drm] Connector 0:
[drm]   VGA-1
[drm]   DDC: 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC1
[drm] Connector 1:
[drm]   VGA-2
[drm]   DDC: 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     CRT2: INTERNAL_DAC2
radeondrmkmsfb0 at radeon0
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.50.0 20080528 for radeon0 on minor 0
radeondrmkmsfb0: framebuffer at 0xe8040000, size 1280x1024, depth 16, stride 2560
wsdisplay0 at radeondrmkmsfb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0

Monitor is a trusty old "ViewSonic VPS191s".  (I like these because
they can still sync-on-green and work with old SGI gear.)

							Martin Neitzel