On Dec 3, 2007 9:59 PM, Hemmann, Volker Armin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007, Andrey Vul wrote: > > I finally got X to work with fglrx and RTFMing said that radeonfb was > > crashing my X. My question is why did radeonfb mess up X and fglrx? > > > > If this is strictly kernel-related, I'll send this email to lkml. > > because two different drivers driving the same hardware never mixes. > > Is that hard to understand? > > radeonfb f*s around with the hardware behind the X drivers back and the X > driver f*s around behind radeonfb's back. Both don't know what the other > one > does. Result: crash. > > That is not a kernel problem. This is a 'two drivers access the same > hardware' > problem. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > And the solution is to use some generic framebuffer driver, like vesafb-tng or vga. -- - Mark Shields
