From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: James Lamanna <jamesl@appliedminds.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New Radeonfb (2.6.5) driver does not play nice with X (4.3.0)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:58:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082681913.2056.143.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4087EB5A.7040404@appliedminds.com>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-23 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-22 15:57 New Radeonfb (2.6.5) driver does not play nice with X (4.3.0) James Lamanna
2004-04-22 18:26 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-22 18:49 ` James Lamanna
2004-04-22 19:13 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 0:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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