Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 20:53 -0500, Vincent C Jones wrote:

> 
> Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Test_9.2 ro root=306 pci=usepirqmask desktop idebus=66 video=radeonfb:1024x768-24@60
> 
> Note the "video=radeonfb:1024x768-24@60" which used to be required to
> get the console into 1024x768 mode but is documented in "modefb.txt"
> as an invalid combination of mode specifications (and also states
> that radeonfb does not support mode specification...). So other
> than the loss of temporary working of backlight controls, I just
> see undocumented progress :-)
> 
> Thanks again, and keep up the great work!

Heh, good. Well, the mode spec should work in fact, provided that you
get the syntax right, though I haven't tried. I'll have a look later,
but if it doesn't work, then it was always broken and it's not a
regression :) I still want to fix more stuff in this area, but for now,
I'm concerned mostly about regressions.

Can you remind me exactly what's up with the backlight control ?

Ben.