Re: aty128fb
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 21:24 -0500, vinai wrote:
> > I am still unable to start my computer with video=aty128fb and X is
> > still complaining about no frame buffer devices, even though I have
> > /dev/fb1 - 9 or 8. I am utterly frustrated at this, and I have found
> > no help in anything I have read on line I can pass video=aty128fb
> > argument on the command line, but I don't think it does anything. I
> > even installed fbset and ran the command to output the configuration
> > needed for X, but didn't understand it, is someone having similar
> > problems?
>
> Not just a problem for you. Somewhere along the line, I also lost
> support for my Mach64 video card, even doing text boots into a console.
> This loss of support was in the Debian kernels - which is why I didn't
> notice when that happened - as I normally compile my own kernels.
>
> The best result I've had is from an installer kernel - it was able to
> text-boot into d-i and let me install testing a couple of months ago.
> But the kernel it installed for actually running the system again did
> not give me any video on boot.
>
> So what I do now is boot blindly, login and start X. I have my old X
> settings from when I had fully supported video, and the video drivers
> in X still work, thankfully. And I keep around a 2.4 kernel which has
> full (working) support for all my hardware, just in case I need to do
> diagnostics on boot.
Does upstream 2.6.12-rc2 work for you ?
Ben.
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