From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Subject: Re: fglrx + radeonfb leads to crashes? Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:47:29 -0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <16472.61857.321235.329052@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <200403172018.i2HKI5E0002012@napali.hpl.hp.com> <1079569590.909.12.camel@gaston> Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3lh8-0007D4-56 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:47:34 -0800 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B3lh6-0004qh-MS for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:47:32 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1079569590.909.12.camel@gaston> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com, Linux Fbdev development list >>>>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:26:31 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt said: Benjamin> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 07:18, David Mosberger wrote: >> I have a machine here with an ATI FireGL Z1 card. It works fine >> with the ATI fglrx binary-only driver on 2.6.5-rc1. However, if >> radeonfb is enabled and I try to stop the X server or switch away >> from it to another virtual console, then the screen display gets >> all messed up and the machine gets stuck. Benjamin> This is a known problem. OK, that's good to know. Benjamin> I only have PPC machines so I can't experiment with it Benjamin> myself though. The "fix" might be as simple as restoring Benjamin> MC_FB_LOCATION, MC_AGP_LOCATION and the various offset Benjamin> when re-initing the mode (the latest fbdev will trigger a Benjamin> mode restore & engine reset when switching out from a Benjamin> KD_GRAPHICS console). OK. If somebody had a patch to do these things, I could try it out here. The problem isn't really critical for me, so I'll probably just live without radeonfb for now. Thanks, --david ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click