Bug#269953: blank display upon loading radeonfb - 9600XT too
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:04:34PM +0100, Jonathan Lucas wrote:
> OK, I've had a look at this bug report. It might be the same, it might
> not. 268352 reports that radeonfb has never worked in 2.6.x. 269953 says
> it worked up to 2.6.5 inclusive (I can still prove that it works in 2.6.5,
> as I've kept the package as a fallback.)
> Also, I remember in the kernel meailing list from about 6 months ago,
> there was much discussion about a radeonfb problem:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.1/1693.html
>
> Could this be related? Is it possible that a patch has been dropped
> somewhere?
> cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
The black screen effect is exactly the same, and the problem is a sync
one AFAIK, anyway upstreams are already informed. For what I can say
about my own chipset, it never worked in 2.6.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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