Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263364AbUDWBA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:00:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263752AbUDWBA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:00:27 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:36030 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263364AbUDWBA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:00:26 -0400 Subject: Re: New Radeonfb (2.6.5) driver does not play nice with X (4.3.0) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: James Lamanna Cc: Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <4087EB5A.7040404@appliedminds.com> References: <4087EB5A.7040404@appliedminds.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1082681913.2056.143.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:58:34 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 21 On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 01:57, James Lamanna wrote: > I'm having some serious issues with the "new" radeonfb driver. > The system boots up fine, but as soon as I start X windows, > I cannot switch to a virtual console. > > If I do, the screen goes black with what looks like lines of really > tiny, squashed text? maybe, and the system totally hangs. > No keyboard input, can't ssh in, totally dead. It works with XFree driver, but there are problems with ATI binary one. Difficult to say what's up at this point precisely as I don't have an x86 setup to reproduce the problem. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/