To: Mihai Dontu <mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram
In-Reply-To: <200709232222.29066.mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:31:33 +0200
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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department
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* Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:22:28 +0300
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>> > 
>> >   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).
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>   Bottom line: no radeonfb for me :( at least, not now; but I have to be honest with
>   you: I don't see what commit dd1447134454b169d5ae353aceb93f2368db8547 brought new
>   into the picture. The previous radeonfb worked just great, but then, again, maybe I'm
>   not using the console at it's full power :)

In fact, it's known statement, that there must only one hardware driver
for graphic adapter. Be it framebuffer with X fb driver on it or legacy
VGA text and X with its driver.so and 3D stuff.

(i choose legacy text without X for the most of my time, though :)
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