Re: 2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-23T19:05:06Z

On Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:31, Mihai Donțu wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2007, Mihai Donțu wrote:
> > I'll to do a full cleanup and start all over. I'm going to nail this thing down if
> > it's the last thing I do! (so help me God) :)
>
> Found it!
>
> The problem was "Framebuffer Console support". It was enabled by default in older
> configs (like 2.6.22.7) but I think someone noticed this was bad and put it to
> default N in newer (2.6.23-rc7); and since I reused the .config from 2.6.21.3 ...
>
> So there, if one wants "ATI Radeon display support" on Radeon XPRESS 200M with
> X using radeon_drv.so, *should* put "Framebuffer Console support" to N (if it's
> not already).
>
> Now all I have to do is figure out what's the equivalent of "vga=791" on the new
> kernel (default text console looks really bad on my laptop).
>
> Sorry for all the noise (and spam),

No, this actually is valuable information, thanks for it. :-)

[I have missed your first post, sorry for that.]

Greetings,
Rafael