Re: Who is responsible for radeon driver bugs?

From: Alex Deucher
Date: Tue Mar 12 2013 - 12:16:55 EST


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let's add some more people to CC.
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:02:49PM +0100, felix-linuxkernel@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> The radeon driver does not work on my laptop.
>> I sent a bug report here a week ago, but got no responses.
>> What is the right place to send bug reports for the radeon driver?
>>
>> The bug is that LVDS output does not work. This is, according to lspci,
>> a 5000M series Madison Radeon.
>>
>> When I insmod the module, the screen stays in text mode and appears
>> locked up.
>>
>> If something is connected to the HDMI port, I get a framebuffer console
>> there. LVDS stays in broken text mode though.
>>
>> When I start X, the HDMI screen turns dark and stays dark and the LVDS
>> screen also stays dark and I have to reboot.
>>
>> The driver loads the REDWOOD firmware OK.
>>
>> Who is responsible for this? Where do I send my bug report?

Please file a bug report here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
choose DRI as the product and DRM/Radeon as the component. Make sure
to attach your dmesg output and Xorg log.
Also, is this a PowerXpress laptop? I.e., laptop with both integrated
and discrete GPUs?

Alex
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