Re: Radeon framebuffer weirdness in -mm2

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 19:07:58 EST


On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 15:39 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm seeing radeonfb on my ThinkPad T30 go weird on reboot (lots of
> > horizontal lines) and require powercycling to fix. Worked fine with 2.6.10.
>
> Which radeon driver? CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD or CONFIG_FB_RADEON?
>
> (cc Ben, who is the likely cuprit ;)
>
> Which -mm2, btw? 2.6.10-mm2 or 2.6.11-rc1-mm2?
>
> Did you try the corresponding -mm1?

/me curses possible BIOS crap ...

radeonfb tries to restore initial mode when the module is closed, which
wouldn't work for a VGA text thing in fact... I suspect something cause
driver remove() routines to be called on reboot, can you confirm ? Or is
it a module that gets removed ? It may well be a problem that has always
been there (regardless of the radeon driver version) and just triggered
by something the kernel does on reboot...

Ben.


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