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Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem



On Die, 2011-09-06 at 17:24 +0200, Gerhard Schromm wrote: 
> On  6 Sep 2011, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Fre, 2011-09-02 at 21:17 -0500, John Ames wrote: 
> >>
> >> conflicting fb usage radeondrmfb vs OFfb ATY,Priona - removing
> >> generic driver
> >>
> >> This causes the system to hang completely, such that it can't even
> >> boot into single-user mode...
> 
> I had this problem too on an iBook G4.
> 
> > Does it hang indefinitely or continue booting after a minute or so? If
> > the former, you might be able to work around the hang by disabling KMS
> > with radeon.modeset=0.
> 
> Setting radeon.agpmode to 1  in yaboot.conf solved the problem.

That's a different problem, which might be fixed in current kernels.


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