On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 23:31 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > * Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:22:28 +0300 > * Organization: Home > > [] > >> > > >> > So there, if one wants "ATI Radeon display support" on Radeon XPRESS > >> > 200M with > >> > X using radeon_drv.so, *should* put "Framebuffer Console support" to N > >> > (if it's > >> > not already). > [] > > Bottom line: no radeonfb for me :( at least, not now; but I have to be > > honest with > > you: I don't see what commit dd1447134454b169d5ae353aceb93f2368db8547 > > brought new > > into the picture. The previous radeonfb worked just great, but then, > > again, maybe I'm > > not using the console at it's full power :) > > In fact, it's known statement, that there must only one hardware driver > for graphic adapter. Be it framebuffer with X fb driver on it or legacy > VGA text and X with its driver.so and 3D stuff. > > (i choose legacy text without X for the most of my time, though :)
Not quite ... on PowerMacs, we've been routinely using radeonfb and X together. However, for that to work, in general, one has to be careful to switch back to console mode before suspending and back to X after resume, which seems to have been broken by many distro lately, probably because somebody made it optional in the kernel... Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
