Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:53:11 -0700 | From | Charles Johnston <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc4 Massive strange corruption with new radeonfb |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:08, Charles Johnston wrote: > >>Upon bootup, radeonfb is obviously not initializing the hardware >>correctly. Massive amounts of random-looking garbage, plus a weird >>effect I've never seen before, like someone pouring milk _up_ the >>screen. (Yeah, it's the best I could come up with) >> >>It's a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Mobile Radeon 9600 and 1920x1200 LCD. > > > Looks like the driver cannot find any info about your flat panel > in the BIOS ROM image. I suppose we can thank DELL for hacking the > BIOS in ways that aren't compatible with all others laptops... > > Can you try commenting out the call to radeon_map_ROM() and let it > look for the RAM based BIOS instead ? Let me know... >
Ok, it worked fine with that line commented out. I can switch vt's, be in X, etc. no problems.
The only issue I see is when I do a 'clear' on the vt, it doesn't clear the text, but blanks every nth row of pixels. Switching vt's and back clears the screen.
There are also a few rows of garbage pixels at the bottom that linger across vt switches.
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