Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:51:27 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: RadeonFB [Re: 2.4.23pre8 - ACPI Kernel Panic on boot] |
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Javier Villavicencio wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:42:17 -0500 > "Kristofer T. Karas" <ktk@enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > >Joachim, > > >The patch in question has caused other problems and will be removed. > > > > > > > > > > Speaking of patches causing problems and needing reversion, can the > > screen-corrupting RadeonFB patch introduced in 2.4.23-pre3 be reverted > > until such time as it is fixed? I know there was a maintainer war going > > on over who should officially submit RadeonFB patches; somewhere in > > there, updates and fixes stopped coming. > > > > As it now stands in current -pre kernels, returning from XFree86 to a > > RadeonFB console results in total gibberish all over the screen (with my > > hardware anyway, a standard Built-by-ATI Radeon 8500 LE chipset QL > > rev0). There is no workaround, other than to return to X. Another bug > > also causes screen corruption when switching VCs (it forgets where in > > the YPan it is), but this can be easily worked around by setting VYRES = > > YRES (fbset -match -a). > > > > The previous version of RadeonFB in 2.4.23-pre2 and earlier works just > > fine on my Radeon 8500 hardware, albeit without accelerated scrolling. > > Of course, if people with other Radeon flavors can't use the older > > driver but the newer one works for them, then short of a > > CONFIG_OLD_RADEONFB, I guess we should keep the current one...
There have been no radeonfb changes in 2.4.23-pre, what has been updated is DRM.
Are you using DRM?
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