linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram

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Message-Id: <200709232118.09884.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:18:09 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Mihai Donțu <mihai.dontu@...il.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram

On Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:31, Mihai Donțu wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2007, Mihai Donțu wrote:
> > I'll to do a full cleanup and start all over. I'm going to nail this thing down if
> > it's the last thing I do! (so help me God) :)
> 
>   Found it!
> 
>   The problem was "Framebuffer Console support". It was enabled by default in older
>   configs (like 2.6.22.7) but I think someone noticed this was bad and put it to
>   default N in newer (2.6.23-rc7); and since I reused the .config from 2.6.21.3 ...
> 
>   So there, if one wants "ATI Radeon display support" on Radeon XPRESS 200M with
>   X using radeon_drv.so, *should* put "Framebuffer Console support" to N (if it's
>   not already).
> 
>   Now all I have to do is figure out what's the equivalent of "vga=791" on the new
>   kernel (default text console looks really bad on my laptop).
> 
>   Sorry for all the noise (and spam),

No, this actually is valuable information, thanks for it. :-)

[I have missed your first post, sorry for that.]

Greetings,
Rafael
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