From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FFF5B-0006Ts-8i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:32:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k23IVG9S002710; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:31:16 GMT Received: from smtp18.wxs.nl (smtp18.wxs.nl [195.121.247.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k23IPPYo000762 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:25:25 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp18.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IVK009NUDUBEQ@smtp18.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:25:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:25:17 +0100 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and framebuffer In-reply-to: <44087F4E.7030708@freemail.gr> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <44088A0D.3090701@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060206) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <44087F4E.7030708@freemail.gr> X-Archives-Salt: 14b5d448-f0bd-4b0d-be40-d9a4336fac69 X-Archives-Hash: f58ee978508ad3c0da1a37896cfaed77 Aggelos schreef: > Is it possible to have framebuffer on console with the ATI RV280 > graphics card, while also getting 3D hardware acceleration when > switching to X? I am asking this because according to > we must remove Support for > framebuffer devices from the kernel. Aggelos. Looks like you didn't read the entry thoroughly; this quote is below the screenshot of the kernel config specifying no framebuffer support: "I have a Radeon 9500/9600 (not sure which) in a Dell Inspiron 8600 and was able to compile support for the framebuffer devices. I used the vesa-tng framebuffer device for getting fbsplash to work. I am running kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r2. The program 'fglrxinfo' reports that I am getting 3D hardware acceleration." I myself have a 9800SE, and also use vesa-tng for fbsplash. Both fbsplash/framebuffer and fglrx work fine; aside from the fb console background, I can even play mplayer videos in the getty console, which is also a framebuffer operation as far as I know. I have heard that enabling the radeon framebuffer is a bad idea, though (it doesn't work well with the fglrx drivers). But stick to vesa or vesa-tng, and you should have no problems. I haven't, from 2.6.13 kernels up to my current (2.6.15-r7), and with fglrx versions from 8.8.whatever to my current 8.22.5. Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list