Re: radeonfb: corrupted screen on bootup

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I have a weird error with my PowerBook G4, which
> has a radeon card. I am using radeonfb.
> After bootup, the screen sometimes looks like it is melting.
> I made a video to show you what is going on:
> http://bu3sch.de/misc/after_boot.avi  (6.1 MB)

The same SOMETIMES happens to me as well (Medion Laptop GD96400 with
an ATI card and the "radeon" driver from X.org), but I use the vesafb,
since the radeonfb won't recognize my card.

> But here comes the interresting part:
> If I switch back into the console, the screen becomes
> normal again and I can continue to work as usual.

Same here.
 
> I am suspecting some initialization routine bug.

Yep.

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