On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:47:55PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 02:57, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:50:33AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Downloaded your 2.6.4 patch for peg2, applied, compiled, rebooted... > > > > works > > > > so far... > > > Cool. > > > > Indeed... Desktop at 1600x1200 is far more snappier with preemptible patch > > than with 2.4.25 kernel... ;)) > > Beware that preempt is known to be broken on PPC; you'll get random > segfaults once swap is being used.
Yeah :) It is also not recomended on x86, as it breaks drivers which don't like to be preempted, like AC 97 sound and serial for example. > > > > One thing that doesn't seem to work anymore is passing a higher > > > > resolution > > > > for the fb console. video=radeon:1600x1200 nor lower resolutions work. > > > Yes, noticed that also, will have a look. > > > > Dunno if this has something to do with compiling agpgart as a module > > > > instead > > > > of statically into the kernel... > > > No, it has no influence. The new radeonfb implementation is probably the > > > culprit. > > > > Ah, so I might try a recompile tomorrow with the old radeon driver... > > I doubt it'll make a difference. The framebuffer console parameters have > changed in 2.6. In particular, all framebuffer devices now take the 'fb' > suffix. Try video=radeonfb:1600x1200 . And benh told me there was no such change when i asked him about that. Oh, well, thanks for the info, i suspected something such, but hadn't had time to look in detail about it though. Friendly, Sven Luther
