From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: claas@rootdir.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0: atyfb broken
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:06:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031230200653.7bc8a8cf.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031230212609.GA4267@rootdir.de>
Claas Langbehn <claas@rootdir.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have got an HP omnibook 4150B. When booting with atyfb,
> the kernel messages look great:
>
> atyfb: 3D RAGE Mobility (PCI) [0x4c4d rev 0x64] 8M SDRAM, 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 50 Mhz MCLK
> fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
>
> But either the screen is black and I see only the cursor and Background
> colors (CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE disabled), but X11 starts fine.
>
>
> With CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled it does not work at all:
> I get a completely broken picture that is not syncing and blinking and so on.
> Its completely useless. X11 will not work either :(
>
The framebuffer drivers in 2.6.0 aren't very up to date, and don't work
very well. There are many fixes sitting out in an external tree and we'll
try to start merging that work up next month.
Ben, if you could shoot me over a copy of the current linux-fbdev tree that
might help things along a bit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-31 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-30 21:26 2.6.0: atyfb broken Claas Langbehn
2003-12-31 4:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-12-31 4:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-05 23:33 ` James Simmons
2004-01-05 23:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-29 15:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-29 15:45 ` James Simmons
2004-01-01 18:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-01 21:53 ` Claas Langbehn
2004-01-02 12:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-02 15:36 ` Daniël Mantione
2004-01-03 23:37 ` Claas Langbehn
2004-01-04 0:27 ` Daniël Mantione
2004-01-04 0:52 ` Claas Langbehn
2004-01-04 9:40 ` Daniël Mantione
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401041040480.28807-402000@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>
[not found] ` <20040104110941.GA983@rootdir.de>
[not found] ` <20040104121019.GB1073@rootdir.de>
2004-01-04 16:35 ` Claas Langbehn
2004-01-05 22:32 ` James Simmons
2004-01-06 18:16 ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2004-01-07 1:01 ` James Simmons
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