Re: Problematic Radeon fb on 2.5.63

From: Joshua Kwan (joshk@triplehelix.org)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 01:57:13 EST


On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 04:09:09PM +0000, mk wrote:
> This is Radeon 7500 QW on a VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]

Cool.. I've got a:
        radeonfb: ATI Radeon M6 LY DDR SGRAM 32 MB

> Cursor does not appear on console, fbset changes are most likely
> to cause screen corruption or just black screen and what must effect all
> fb graphics support, choosing an fbdriver and not fb console support, is
> an accepted option (at least on menuconfig) having as a result blank
> screen on boot.

Should an fbdriver depend on CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE then? It seems
wrong to me.

I have attached the fix for the cursor not appearing problem. James
already has it in his own tree, why isn't it getting pushed to
mainstream?

Regards
Josh

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