Re: Radeon FB slightly broken in 2.6.8.x

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> |>I am a forced owner of a Radeon 7500 in my Sony Laptop. with 2.6.7 the
> |>framebuffer works perfectly fine, but with 2.6.8.x I get strange
> |>colerful ascii garbage on the bottom of the screen during booten and
> |>then good 10 or more lines are sort of "hidden" outside of the screen.
> |>It seems like the screen is not positioned to the end of the output.
> |>Kinda strange, cause I first thought it stopped loading exim4 for some
> |>reason and not until after I pressed enter a lot I saw that I had a
> |>login screen just very far outside of my visual area :)
> |>
> |>Config attached, but it hasn't chagned to 2.6.7 in the FB area.
> |
> |
> | Does it get back to normal at the end of boot ?
> 
> The "colorful" ascii disappear as they are only ~10 lines and they
> scroll up. But even after login, the actual cursor is ~10-15 lines
> outside of the visible area.

Does it disappear if you use video=radeonfb:noaccel on the kernel
command line ?

Ben.




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