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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:47:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201211301747.44204.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519b0f58c76c44d983f540dbeef9628c@weilbacher.org>

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On Friday 30 Nov 2012 09:01:35 Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> On 2012-11-28 00:08, Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 Nov 2012 17:18:43 design [depois das dez] wrote:
> >> My video driver is an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350) and somebody has
> >> already
> >> updated the section on the Gentoo wiki
> >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernels_.3E.3D3.0.0 informing
> >> that
> >> there might be incompatibilities concerning the RV350 firmware. I
> >> just
> >> don't have enough understanding of the video related parts of the
> >> system to
> >> tweak and fix this issue. How should I proceed when I have a problem
> >> of
> >> this sort?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > The link you provided says that you should disable framebuffer in
> > your kernel
> > config.  Have you tried that?
> 
> I have the same problem and this solution sucks. :-(
> Before this update I had such a nice console setup with framebuffer
> splash,
> a nice small font, and a Gentoo decoration around it. Really sad to see
> that
> go.
>     Peter.

KMS should provide framebuffer now, so have you set KMS and firmware 
correctly?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 17:18 [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update design [depois das dez]
2012-11-27 23:08 ` Mick
2012-11-28  9:36   ` Jacques Montier
2012-11-28 18:29     ` design [depois das dez]
2012-11-30  9:01   ` Peter Weilbacher
2012-11-30 17:47     ` Mick [this message]
2012-12-04  9:42       ` Peter Weilbacher
2012-12-04 10:05         ` Jacques Montier
2012-12-04 18:52           ` Peter Weilbacher
2013-01-03 10:59             ` Peter Weilbacher
2013-01-03 12:59               ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-04 13:14                 ` Peter Weilbacher

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