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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote:
Did the cursor work adequately on 2.6 in the past ?
Never. But I never used 2.6 much.
Which version of 2.6 are you now using, and which was your
previous working version ?
2.6.12.1.
2.6.0, 2.6.9, 2.6.10 all showed the same thing.
So, this isn't a regression within 2.6.
No, it not. It appears to be a regression 2.4 -- 2.6 :-)
Next bit of spare time I'll stick the framebuffer back in. I have
memories that 1. The radeon card responds strangely to the radeon
module. 2. I have downgraded the monitor to a cheap/nasty type
which may not do what the previous one did.
Perhaps try CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR and CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS with
CONFIG_FB_RADEON and CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C and make sure any other
framebuffers are not set. Apart from some junk in the early visual
output up to maybe 2.6.7, and a missing penguin around 2.6.9 or
2.6.10, the radeon has worked well here as a console framebuffer
during 2.6.
In xorg.conf, I use
Driver radeon
(not ati, not fb)
You may find that the bootargs I quoted for the radeon are wrong -
another box of mine uses video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - they both seem
to give me a 128x48 framebuffer console, at least when I don't use a
graphical login.
I can fart around with arguments and options for the video. I'm not
scared of that. I did get fed up trying to master this curcor thing, so
I stuck in the ALFS stuff, wiped my 3.3 libs, logs includes, and
executables, and had chapter 6 7 of LFS-6.0 build themselves last
evening. The thing knew best, of course. It stuck in UDEV(!) after me
loudly say6ing That will never work - ever. Of course it decided I
wanted HOTPLUG (Aaaargh!) and I just have hung on the bootscripts for
some reason.
That will give me an LFS-6.0, and then I have the BLFS-6.0 profile there
for another bit of work. At least I will prove if the problem is system
specific.
Mind you, I have to send this reboot into a 2.6 kernel to build. I got
an error from the toolchain (Glibc IIRC)
FATAL: kernel too old when I was running 2.4.22
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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