From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helge Hafting Subject: 2.5.54: radeonfb almost works Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:32:30 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E14315E.F80B3DFF@aitel.hist.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list Radeonfb almost works now, but there are some problems with setting (and resetting) the resolution. I use a flat screen so anything except 1280x1024 is hopeless to look at. So I want that from the start. Just booting with video=radeon gives me a 640x400 mode. There's some initial garbage (looks like early boot messages converted to graphichs at the wrong resolution) on the screen, but that isn't a problem. The low resolution is, though. I first tried "fbset 1280x1024-60", which changed the resolution, but the console was still a small 640x400 thing in the upper left corner of the 1280x1024 display. Not very useful. So I tried booting with video=radeon:1280x1024-32@60 That gave me a blank screen, the monitor complained about "no signal". But I logged in blind, and ran fbset 1280x1024-60 again. This gave me the console I want. 1280x1024 resolution, with 160x64 characters. I could put fbset in a init script, but that is fragile if I get some error before that init script runs. I should really see the console all the time. Another problem comes up when running X. Switching from X to some virtual console always gives me the "no signal" thing, and I have to type the fbset command blind before the console becomes visible. Switching back to X is never a problem. This is a UP machine, P4 processor, using preempt. I use a radeon 7500 in an AGP slot. Helge Hafting