With the Radeon framebuffer driver compiled in, 2.5.70-bk15 oopses very
early during the boot process. The oops is visible in text mode but
scrolls off the screen. (I really need to set up a serial console!)
The hardware is a very ordinary HP Vectra, PIII-733, with an ATI
All-In-Wonder 7500. Red Hat 9 with updates.
The machine works great if I leave out the framebuffer kernel config
options - even has nice 3d accel under X.
My .config is attached.
And there is a a related bug:
[thoffman@torrey fb]$ pwd
/home/archive/Kernels/linux-2.5.70-bk15/Documentation/fb
[thoffman@torrey fb]$ grep radeon *
[thoffman@torrey fb]$
There is not a single mention of the radeon driver under Documentation!
Even a 20 line note explaining what the kernel command line format is
would be nice.
PS: Mr. Simmons, I really appreciate your work on the framebuffer and
console subsystem. To make it easier for people to find you, perhaps a
little patch to update your email addresses throughout the code would be
worth while? A quick grep under drivers/video turns up four different
addresses in about a dozen files, hopefully I am sending this email to a
current address:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Torrey Hoffman <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:22:13PM -0700, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> With the Radeon framebuffer driver compiled in, 2.5.70-bk15 oopses very
> early during the boot process. The oops is visible in text mode but
> scrolls off the screen. (I really need to set up a serial console!)
Try a later -bk version, -bk17 fixes this I think, but to be safe, use
-bk18
thanks,
greg k-h
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:03, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:22:13PM -0700, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> > With the Radeon framebuffer driver compiled in, 2.5.70-bk15 oopses very
> > early during the boot process. The oops is visible in text mode but
> > scrolls off the screen. (I really need to set up a serial console!)
>
> Try a later -bk version, -bk17 fixes this I think, but to be safe, use
> -bk18
Thanks, yes, this is fixed now (tested 2.5.71-bk2).
--
Torrey Hoffman <[email protected]>
> With the Radeon framebuffer driver compiled in, 2.5.70-bk15 oopses very
> early during the boot process. The oops is visible in text mode but
> scrolls off the screen. (I really need to set up a serial console!)
If you see the oops that is good thing. That means the framebuffer driver
works.
> [thoffman@torrey fb]$ pwd
> /home/archive/Kernels/linux-2.5.70-bk15/Documentation/fb
> [thoffman@torrey fb]$ grep radeon *
> [thoffman@torrey fb]$
>
> There is not a single mention of the radeon driver under Documentation!
> Even a 20 line note explaining what the kernel command line format is
> would be nice.
No :-(
> PS: Mr. Simmons, I really appreciate your work on the framebuffer and
> console subsystem. To make it easier for people to find you, perhaps a
> little patch to update your email addresses throughout the code would be
> worth while? A quick grep under drivers/video turns up four different
> addresses in about a dozen files, hopefully I am sending this email to a
> current address:
>
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
Good point. I will update everything.