On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:39, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > When I installed the 2.4.21 kernel-image, I gave the radeonfb a try. > I have an IBM X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY (according to lspci), > and I really liked the console with the framebuffer. (I liked it so > much that I started to learn screen.) > > However, I was also quite interested in getting cpufreq to work, so > yesterday I pulled the source for kernel 2.6-test2 from the unstable > archive and I have been building kernels since. cpufreq appears to be > working now (with apm), but I have lost my nice framebuffer. When the > machine starts, it loads the framebuffer and spits out some > information (from dmesg): > > > radeonfb_pci_register BEGIN > > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:01:00.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:01.0 > > radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=60, xclk=14400 from BIOS > > radeonfb: probed DDR SGRAM 16384k videoram > > radeon_get_moninfo: bios 4 scratch = 1000044 > > radeonfb: panel ID string: 1024x768 > > radeonfb: detected DFP panel size from BIOS: 1024x768 > > radeonfb: ATI Radeon M6 LY DDR SGRAM 16 MB > > radeonfb: DVI port LCD monitor connected > > radeonfb: CRT port no monitor connected > > radeonfb_pci_register END > > Also, lsmod shows it. But I don't think anything really happens to > the screen. It seems the framebuffer module is loaded, but it isn't > doing anything. I have grepped around for fbset under /etc and > /lib/modules hoping to find where that is happening when the 2.4.21 > kernel loads, but I cannot find anything. I have looked at the output > of fbset under both kernels and they look similar, only rgba and the > LineLength are different. > > lpa:~# diff k2.4.fbseti k2.6.fbseti > 6c6 > < rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 > --- > > rgba 6/0,6/0,6/0,0/0 > 10c10 > < Name : Radeon M6 LY > --- > > Name : M6 LY > 18c18 > < LineLength : 1024 > --- > > LineLength : 0 > > There are no video append statements in lilo.conf. Can anyone tell me > where to look in order to understand how the framebuffer is started in > the 2.4.21 kernel, so I can try to replicate it in my 2.6? Thanks a > lot. > > Brian >
I am not sure if its needed but do you have CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y In .config? Do you have a vga=... line in lilo? for me the line vga=792 worked, but I am using vesa frame buffer and its a vesa mode so I am not sure if it will work for you.
