On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 09:23 +0000, Sean Neakums wrote: > Not to worry. I only ended up with modular radeonfb when I was trying > to narrow down the cause of the boot hang. > > [...] > > radeonfb built-in operations seem to be ok on my PowerBook3,5 (ATI M9 > > based), I'll try on a PowerBook5,4 (same as yours) tomorrow hopefully. > > > > Does the machine hang with the screen completely cleared ? Do you see > > the penguin logo ? Did you try just using pmac_defconfig ? > > I seem some openpic messages and then the screen is cleared > completely. Alas, I have the logo disabled in my configuration. I'll > give pmac_defconfig a go this evening. > > I forgot to mention, after radeonfb failed to load as above, I fired > up X. The display was unreadably corrupted, although the hardware > cursor was fine and I could launch programs. Killing the X server did > not return me to the console. I neglected to check if the machine was > still accessible via the network.
X tend to be upset on macs if radeonfb hasn't pre-initialized the chip. I think I fixed all of these problems in Xorg CVS tho. 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/
