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Re: ATI Mobility Radeon Patches



Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 23:19, Dan Christensen wrote:
>> Lars Steinke <steinke@hpcip00.physik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>> 
>> >> Alternatively, is there any work-around I could use in the meantime?
>> >
>> > use the X11 Framebuffer driver (with the radeonfb driver in Linux 2.4), 
>> 
>> ["modprobe radeonfb" causes Inspiron 4100 to lock up...]
>> 
>> Did I do something wrong?
>
> I don't think so, but the radeonfb in 2.4.17 is rather old AFAIK. There
> have been big updates since, which could make a difference. If you don't
> want to try the current 2.4.18 prerelease, you could try backporting the
> radeonfb changes to 2.4.17. Shouldn't be hard.

I tried 2.4.18-pre2, and this gives a compile error in radeonfb.c.
Has anyone actually got the radeon framebuffer working?

>> Could I have damaged my machine?
>
> Unlikely.

You're right, of course.  The lockups had nothing to do with the
radeon module.  Instead, I had to disable APIC.

Thanks for the help.

Dan



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