On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 19:26, Dan Christensen wrote: > Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 23:19, Dan Christensen wrote: > >>> Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> > >>> > use the X11 Framebuffer driver (with the radeonfb driver in Linux 2.4), > >>> > >>> ["modprobe radeonfb" causes Inspiron 4100 to lock up...] > >> > >> the radeonfb in 2.4.17 is rather old AFAIK. There > >> have been big updates since, which could make a difference. If you don't > >> want to try the current 2.4.18 prerelease, you could try backporting the > >> radeonfb changes to 2.4.17. Shouldn't be hard. > > > > I tried 2.4.18-pre2, and this gives a compile error in radeonfb.c. > > I got around the compile error using a patch I found on the kernel > list, but the resulting driver doesn't work. In a text console, > after I "modprobe radeonfb", various vertical strips of the screen > are repeated. When I try to start X, I get a device not found error > (I can get the precise error message if it would help). Has anyone > successfully used the radeon framebuffer??? If it matters, I have > a 1600x1200 UXGA LCD display on an Inspiron 4100.
The radeonfb maintainer, Ani Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, would probably like to hear about this. > I also tried xf86config, and it produced an XF86Config file which > uses the vga driver. This works, but is only at 320x200. The vesa driver should allow you to use higher resolutions. > Any estimates of when the new version of X will be released? My guesstimate is 4.2.0 will be released in January. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
