Re: New Radeonfb (2.6.5) driver does not play nice with X (4.3.0)

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 20:01:27 EST


On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 01:57, James Lamanna wrote:
> I'm having some serious issues with the "new" radeonfb driver.
> The system boots up fine, but as soon as I start X windows,
> I cannot switch to a virtual console.
>
> If I do, the screen goes black with what looks like lines of really
> tiny, squashed text? maybe, and the system totally hangs.
> No keyboard input, can't ssh in, totally dead.

It works with XFree driver, but there are problems with ATI binary
one. Difficult to say what's up at this point precisely as I don't
have an x86 setup to reproduce the problem.

Ben.


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