When radeontool parses the lspci output, it only checks for "ATI Tech" instead of "VGA compatible controller: ATI Tech" This made it try to write regs to the host bridge instead of the vga controller on my laptop. I will supply a patch that will fix this.
Created attachment 64372 [details, diff] radeontool-1.5-vga-ati.patch one line replace
please don't assign bugs if you don't know where they should go
Please post the output of `lspci`.
pusillus ~ # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M] 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 0000:00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller 0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) 0000:00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 0000:00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 0000:00:0b.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator 0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0000:00:12.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0000:00:12.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0000:00:12.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0000:00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M I have to say, the patch wasn't my idea only. http://fdd.com/software/radeon/radeon9100.txt
Fixed in app-laptop/radeontool-1.5-r2. Thank you for reporting this - sorry about the long delay. :)
