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From: Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [BISECTED] commit 619efb1059 makes the MacBookPro2,2 screen flicker like its broken or half plugged in
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:28:58 -0800
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On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Justin Mattock
> <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Better yet, can you try the attached patch on top of 2.6.38-rc4 or  
>>> newer?
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
>> o.k. applied that patch... unfortunately Im seeing the flickering  
>> screen and
>> the crud shows up..
>> initially during boot everything looked fine, its when I suspended  
>> the
>> machine, upon wake-up
>> the flickering occurred.
>> kernel version is the current: 2.6.38-rc4-00107-gaa502b4
>
> Can you try this patch?  Try uncommenting the following lines to see
> if either of those flags work any better.  Try them individually and
> together if possible and report back which, if any, helps.
>
> /*pll->flags |= RADEON_PLL_PREFER_MINM_OVER_MAXP;*/
>
> /*if (ASIC_IS_AVIVO(rdev))
>        pll->flags |= RADEON_PLL_USE_FRAC_FB_DIV;*/
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex
>
>>
>> Justin P. Mattock
>>
> <0001-drm-radeon-kms-hopefully-fix-pll-issues-for-real-v2.patch>


alright.. again out of my office trying to make a living!!
Anyways I applied the two earlier patches, and added the previous  
post's patch as well
(everything runs o.k. s2r etc...)
I can try for the above and see if I can pinpoint the piece of code  
that is causing this(hopefully)

Justin P. Mattock