From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264941AbUBOPEH (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:04:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264942AbUBOPEH (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:04:07 -0500 Received: from colossus.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.73]:32977 "EHLO colossus.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264941AbUBOPEC (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:04:02 -0500 Message-ID: <402F8A5F.5060902@emergence.uk.net> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:03:59 +0000 From: Jonathan Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Osterlund Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Osterlund wrote: >>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. I can then start the X server which appears to > work correctly, but switching back to a console still gives me a black > screen. Running "setfont" doesn't fix it. Here is what dmesg reports > when running 2.6.3-rc3: I also get a black screen on boot on my IBM X31, but pressing Fn+F7 a couple of times brings it up. Fn+F7 switches between LCD, monitor and both. Here is my dmesg: radeonfb: Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55 radeonfb: Retreived PLL infos from BIOS radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=60) Memory=144.00 Mhz, System=144.00 MHz Non-DDC laptop panel detected radeonfb: Monitor 1 type LCD found radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found radeonfb: panel ID string: 1024x768 radeonfb: detected LVDS panel size from BIOS: 1024x768 radeondb: BIOS provided dividers will be used radeonfb: Power Management enabled for Mobility chipsets radeonfb: ATI Radeon LY DDR SGRAM 16 MB