Re: 2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram

From: Andreas Herrmann
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 10:44:00 EST


On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 07:27:59AM +0200, Mihai DonÈu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today, out of curiosity, I pulled 2.6.23-rc7 (leave on the edge in a quiet weekend).
> Anyway, it seems that radeonfb and my:
> "01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
> don't get along anymore, by:
> a) X somehow fails to initialize the card and everything moves really slow (I can
> see how surfaces are drawn pixel-by-pixel); furthermore, garbage stuff appears
> on the screen;

Have you tried to boot your kernel with

video=radeonfb:noaccel

I usual add this kernel parameter when running radeonfb and X.

Otherwise I've observed the same symptoms (e.g. with my radeon card
at home: Radeon X300SE, 1002:5b70).


Regards,

Andreas



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