Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757737AbXIXAIT (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754832AbXIXAIL (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:08:11 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:56178 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755476AbXIXAIK (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:08:10 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Oleg Verych Cc: Mihai Dontu , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: References: <200709220828.00078.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> <200709232131.02348.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> <200709232118.09884.rjw@sisk.pl> <200709232222.29066.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:07:58 +1000 Message-Id: <1190592478.6886.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1513 Lines: 36 On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 23:31 +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > * Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:22:28 +0300 > * Organization: Home > > [] > >> > > >> > 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). > [] > > 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 :) Not quite ... on PowerMacs, we've been routinely using radeonfb and X together. However, for that to work, in general, one has to be careful to switch back to console mode before suspending and back to X after resume, which seems to have been broken by many distro lately, probably because somebody made it optional in the kernel... 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/