Re: Radeon FB slightly broken in 2.6.8.x

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun Aug 15 2004 - 17:39:58 EST


On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:05, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am a forced owner of a Radeon 7500 in my Sony Laptop. with 2.6.7 the
> framebuffer works perfectly fine, but with 2.6.8.x I get strange
> colerful ascii garbage on the bottom of the screen during booten and
> then good 10 or more lines are sort of "hidden" outside of the screen.
> It seems like the screen is not positioned to the end of the output.
> Kinda strange, cause I first thought it stopped loading exim4 for some
> reason and not until after I pressed enter a lot I saw that I had a
> login screen just very far outside of my visual area :)
>
> Config attached, but it hasn't chagned to 2.6.7 in the FB area.

Does it get back to normal at the end of boot ?

Ben.

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