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From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: radeonfb: corrupted screen on bootup
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:26:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060628192634.GJ28018@charite.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606282118.27750.mb@bu3sch.de>

* Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>:

> I have a weird error with my PowerBook G4, which
> has a radeon card. I am using radeonfb.
> After bootup, the screen sometimes looks like it is melting.
> I made a video to show you what is going on:
> http://bu3sch.de/misc/after_boot.avi  (6.1 MB)

The same SOMETIMES happens to me as well (Medion Laptop GD96400 with
an ATI card and the "radeon" driver from X.org), but I use the vesafb,
since the radeonfb won't recognize my card.

> But here comes the interresting part:
> If I switch back into the console, the screen becomes
> normal again and I can continue to work as usual.

Same here.
 
> I am suspecting some initialization routine bug.

Yep.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-28 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-28 19:18 radeonfb: corrupted screen on bootup Michael Buesch
2006-06-28 19:26 ` Ralf Hildebrandt [this message]
2006-06-29  0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-29 15:08 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-29 17:19 ` Pavel Machek

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