Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3

[Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>]

On Feb-15 2004, Sun, 10:17 +0100
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> >   o New radeonfb
> >   o Fix a link conflict between radeonfb and the radeon DRI
> >   o Fix incorrect kfree in radeonfb
> 
> It doesn't seem to work on my x86 laptop. The screen goes black when
> the framebuffer is enabled early in the boot sequence. The machine
> boots normally anyway and I can log in from the network or log in
> blindly at the console.

The same goes for my ThinkPad T40p.  The old driver works ok.

dmesg:
...
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 rw video=radeonfb
...
radeonfb: Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55
radeonfb: Retreived PLL infos from BIOS
radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=252.00 Mhz, System=200.00 MHz
Non-DDC laptop panel detected
radeonfb: Monitor 1 type LCD found
radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found
radeonfb: panel ID string: SXGA+ Single (85MHz)    
radeonfb: detected LVDS panel size from BIOS: 1400x1050
radeondb: BIOS provided dividers will be used
radeonfb: Power Management enabled for Mobility chipsets
radeonfb: ATI Radeon Lf  DDR SGRAM 64 MB
...
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 116x47

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>