Re: 2.6.7-bk16, mode-switch-in-fbcon_blank.patch breaks X on r128

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Sun Jul 04 2004 - 13:30:27 EST


On Sun, Jul 04, Jurriaan wrote:

> From: Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:03:58PM +0200
> >
> > This patch, which went into 2.6.7-bk16, breaks X on my ibook with r128
> > chipset. X starts just fine, but the screen stays black. I can switch to
> > a textconsole and the console login appears.
> >
> > I see no errors in dmesg or XFree86.0.log. Its version 4.3.0 from SuSE 8.2.
> >
>
> I also had problems (switching back from X to console rewrote my refresh
> rate from 85 to 60 Hz) and this patch was posted in the
> linux-fbdev-devel mailinglist which solved my problems.

I think you can debug it better with 'Option "usefbdev" "on"' in our
XF86config. It breaks also atyfb.

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