Re: Radeon Framebuffer Driver in 2.6.3?

[Mike Houston]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:04:51 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If it happens only after switching back from XFree, then it's a known
> problem. I have implemented a fix locally but got sidetracked before I
> could test it properly. 
> 
> Can you test the patch below ? :
> 
> ===== drivers/char/vt.c 1.61 vs edited =====
> --- 1.61/drivers/char/vt.c	Thu Feb 19 14:43:03 2004
> +++ edited/drivers/char/vt.c	Fri Feb 27 17:27:09 2004
> @@ -2743,12 +2743,12 @@

That patch fixes the problem for me also, Benjamin. Thank you! 

Now I have my proper framebuffer console fully usable again (I had switched to VESA fb console in the interrim and that was OK, but it was causing a conflict with the linear framebuffer handle, unable to allocate an mtrr and unable to use write combining on starting X/DRI)

ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] on i845 chipset.

Grogan
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