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 1FI0IK-00013b-35 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:21:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2B9Kip5004347; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:20:44 GMT Received: from smtp.freemail.gr (smtp.freemail.gr [83.149.70.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2B9GDeZ002597 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:16:13 GMT Received: by smtp.freemail.gr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 479D5A08775; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:16:13 +0200 (EET) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (dsl-88-218-3-49.customers.vivodi.gr [88.218.3.49])by smtp.freemail.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1853CA08538;Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:16:11 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <44129557.5090008@freemail.gr> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:16:07 +0200 From: Aggelos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051031) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, motub@planet.nl Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and framebuffer References: <44087F4E.7030708@freemail.gr> <44088A0D.3090701@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <44088A0D.3090701@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k2B9KipN004347 X-Archives-Salt: 8bb5bd35-712b-41b2-8476-373181510946 X-Archives-Hash: 871ca5291952135a1963614555a23583 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 curren= t > (2.6.15-r7), and with fglrx versions from 8.8.whatever to my current 8.= 22.5. >=20 > Hope this helps. > Holly Could you tell me the options you are passing to the kernel at boot time=20 (I am using grub) for the vesa-tng ? Thanks. Aggelos. ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.freemail.gr - =E4=F9=F1=E5=DC=ED =F5=F0=E7=F1=E5=F3=DF=E1 =E7=EB= =E5=EA=F4=F1=EF=ED=E9=EA=EF=FD =F4=E1=F7=F5=E4=F1=EF=EC=E5=DF=EF=F5. http://www.freemail.gr - free email service for the Greek-speaking. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list