Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and framebuffer

[Aggelos <marmango@freemail.gr>]

Holly Bostick wrote:

> 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

Could you tell me the options you are passing to the kernel at boot time 
(I am using grub) for the vesa-tng ?
Thanks.
Aggelos.


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