I have found some problem in building kernel with radeonfb 16bpp support at 2.4.2-ac8. here is patch.
--- linux/drivers/video/radeonfb.c.orig Fri Mar 2 12:29:15 2001 +++ linux/drivers/video/radeonfb.c Fri Mar 2 12:29:28 2001 @@ -845,9 +845,11 @@ rinfo->depth = disp->var.bits_per_pixel; switch (disp->var.bits_per_pixel) { +#ifdef FBCON_HAS_CFB8 case 8: disp->dispsw = &fbcon_cfb8; break; +#endif #ifdef FBCON_HAS_CFB16 case 16: disp->dispsw = &fbcon_cfb16; @@ -1322,8 +1322,8 @@ i = (regno << 8) | regno; rinfo->con_cmap.cfb32[regno] = (i << 16) | i; break; -#endif } +#endif } } #endif