Vesa driver is used on AMD C-50 or AMD C-60 Apu's

[lxstoian]

They are running on 6xxx family gpu's : Radeon HD 6250 and Radeon HD 6290. They are basically the same gpu's with the only difference being clock speed. The C-50 machine is an ASUS 1215b netbook while the C-60 is the Acer Iconia Tab w500. I can provide any feedback necessary from the Acer as Haiku seems to boot on the Asus when ever it feels like.

[anevilyak]

The output of the listdev command on those systems would be interesting. Chances are it's just a case of the driver not being aware of their PCI IDs.

[lxstoian]

Here it is the output.

[kallisti5]

PCIID provided added in hrev43674, let us know your results.

[lxstoian]

Thanks it's working now on the C-60 APU. But on the C-50 ( Asus 1215b ) I get a very distorted screen. I'll upload a picture of the screen and a listdev if I can get it to boot in safe mode.

[lxstoian]

The screen of the Asus 1215b is actually still the same as in a previous ticket I reported : https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8059. This is the same screen I get even if I boot into safe mode and force the use of vesa.

[kallisti5]

hrev43767 should resolve this issue so the native resolution should be set properly.

Can you test as soon as you have access to a hrev43767 or higher build?

[lxstoian]

Tested hrev43768 and there has been no change to the behaviour.

[kallisti5]

need system logs. Could you grab /var/log/syslog or /common/var/log/syslog and attach?

[lxstoian]

All info is provided here : Ticket #8059

[kallisti5]

try post hrev43810. hrev43810 fixes a *big* oops.

[lxstoian]

On the acer w500 ( AMD APU C-60 ) the ati driver now works great. Nothing has changed though for the asus 1215b ( AMD APU C-50 )

[kallisti5]

Glad to hear I finally fixed at least one of these regressions :)

probably solved via hrev43810

[X512]

Yes, now Haiku set native resulution on Acer W500, but first it shows white screen. I don't know how to control screen brigtness. On Haiku device discharge much faster, then in Windows 7.