Bug 39866

Created attachment 49975 [details]
Dmesg from a non-working boot without video=TV-1:d

Xrandr output from non working setup.
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-2 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1024x768       60.0 +   75.1     70.1
   832x624        74.6
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3
   640x480        72.8     75.0     60.0
   720x400        70.1
TV-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   720x576        50.0 +
   1024x768       50.0*
   800x600        50.0
   720x480        50.0
   640x480        50.0
   400x300       100.0
   320x240       100.0
   320x200       100.0

To me it looks like the VGA monitor's EDID is being mistaken for a DVI one and the TV-1 modes are generated internally by the driver. The real apple adapter includes its own EDID that can be used for detection and its modes should be used if I understand correctly.

Created attachment 49996 [details]
Power PC GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB vbios

Hi Jon

Can you please provide a bit more information about the system
* Number and type of connectors
* Logs if you try and insert the DVI to VGA adapter (+ monitor that is) into "DVI-1" (if it exists)
* The same logs with additional verbose level - append "drm.debug=0x04" to your kernel command line

From what I can see the issue is not a case of "TV miss detection" as in those cases the monitor does produce output (about a 1/4 of the full resolution)

Cheers
Emil

There are two connectors on the card, one ADC(Apple Display Connector, which I believe is basically DVI with USB) and one DVI, yaboot is having issues with the machine but as soon as I get it back up I will get you those logs.

Created attachment 50256 [details]
dmesg drmdebug unpluging and repluging adapter

Attached is the dmesg with the drm debug line after I removed and repluged the adapter+monitor into the DVI port. I will do it without the drmdebug line shortly.

Created attachment 50257 [details]
dmesg after plug and unplug, no drmdebug

This is the dmesg from booting without drmdebug and I removed the adpater before nouveau was loaded. I tried to just boot without it but it seemed to force booting Mac OS X when no output was attached, I'm not sure why that was.  

I also started X without a display attached but xrandr claimed DVI-I-2 was connected. Unpluging and replugging the display with X running caused xrandr to say TV-1 disconnected but DVI-I-2 and DVI-I-1 never changed. I can run the tests again with TV detection disabled if needed, assuming yaboot plays nicely.

I can also give a dev ssh access if needed as the box is mainly used as a build box for Arch Linux PPC packages as well as for a few friends to test if their code is big endian safe.

Ok so I overpaid for the official DVI to TV adapter from Apple and the good news is that it works. The bad news is nouveau/xrandr still thinks both DVI-I-2 and TV-1 are connected. Dmesg mentions nothing about the DVI-I-2 connector which makes me wonder why it is saying it is connected.
 
[14:38 jon@ArchG5 ~]$ DISPLAY=:0 xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 640 x 480, maximum 4096 x 4096
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-2 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1024x768       60.0
   800x600        60.3     56.2
   848x480        60.0
   640x480        59.9
TV-1 connected 640x480+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   720x576        50.0 +
   1024x768       50.0
   800x600        50.0
   720x480        50.0
   640x480        50.0*
   400x300       100.0
   320x240       100.0
   320x200       100.0

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